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Professor
Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093 China
E-mail: yalong.guo@ibcas.ac.cn
Website: http://ib.cas.cn/sourcedb/cn/expert/201112/t20111208_3409961.html
Area of expertise: Adaptive evolution, transposable elements, deleterious mutation, genomics
Speciality AreaMolecular Ecology and Evolution
Selected Publications:
Yang LL, Li Y., Niu XM, Guo YL. (2026). The enigma of transposable element abundance: Lessons from Arabidopsis. Trends in Genetics in press.
Zhang ZQ, Jiang J, Xu YC, Dent C, Sureshkumar S, Balasubramanian S, Guo YL. (2025). Mutations of short tandem repeats explain abundant trait heritability in Arabidopsis. Genome Biol. 26: 242.
Jiang J, Chen JF, Li XT, Wang L, Mao JF, Wang BS, Guo YL. (2025). Incorporating genetic load contributes to predicting Arabidopsis thaliana’s response to climate change. Nat Commun. 16: 2752.
Jin GT, Xu YC, Hou XH, Jiang J, Li XX, Xiao JH, Bian YT, Gong YB, Wang MY, Zhang ZQ, Zhang YE, Zhu WS, Liu YX, Guo YL. (2025). A de novo gene promotes seed germination under drought stress in Arabidopsis. Mol. Biol. Evol. 42: msae262.
Hou XH, Xu YC, Sun TS, Gong YB, Li XT, Jin GT, Bian YT, Liu YN, Jiang J, Niu XM, Gu H, Guo YL. (2025). Green revolution gene drives adaptation of Arabidopsis to the extremely high altitude. Sci. China Life Sci. 68: 859-870.
Jiang J, Xu YC, Zhang ZQ, Chen JF, Niu XM, Hou XH, Li XT, Wang L, Zhang Y, Ge S, Guo YL. (2024). Forces driving transposable element load variation during Arabidopsis range expansion. Plant Cell 36: 840-862.
Niu XM, Xu YC, Li ZW, Bian YT, Hou XH, Chen JF, Zou YP, Jiang J, Wu Q, Ge S, Balasubramanian S, Guo YL. (2019). Transposable elements drive rapid phenotypic variation in Capsella rubella. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 116: 6908-6913.
Xu YC, Niu XM, Li XX, He W, Chen JF, Zou YP, Wu Q, Zhang YE, Busch W, Guo YL. (2019). Adaptation and phenotypic diversification through loss-of-function mutations in Arabidopsis protein-coding genes. Plant Cell 31: 1012-1025.
Yang L, Wang HN, Hou XH, Zou YP, Han TS, Niu XM, Zhang J, Zhao Z, Todesco M, Balasubramanian S, Guo YL. (2018). Parallel evolution of common allelic variants confers flowering diversity in Capsella rubella. Plant Cell 30: 1322-1336.
Wu Q, Han TS, Chen X, Chen JF, Zou YP, Li ZW, Xu YC, Guo YL. (2017). Long-term balancing selection contributes to adaptation in Arabidopsis and its relatives. Genome Biol. 18: 217.
Zou YP, Hou XH, Wu Q, Chen JF, Li ZW, Han TS, Niu XM, Yang L, Xu YC, Zhang J, Zhang FM, Tan D, Tian Z, Gu H, Guo YL. (2017). Adaptation of Arabidopsis thaliana to the Yangtze River basin. Genome Biol. 18: 239.
Guo YL. (2013). Gene family evolution in green plants with emphasis on the origination and evolution of Arabidopsis thaliana genes. Plant J. 73: 941-951.
Hu TT, Pattyn P, Bakker EG, Cao J, Cheng JF, Clark RM, Fahlgren N, Fawcett JA, Grimwood J, Gundlach H, Haberer G, Hollister JD, Ossowski S, Ottilar RP, Salamov A, Schneeberger K, Spannagl M, Wang X, Yang L, Nasrallah ME, Bergelson J, Carrington JC, Gaut BS, Schmutz J, Mayer KFX, Van De Peer Y, Grigoriev IV, Nordborg M, Weigel D, Guo YL. (2011). The Arabidopsis lyrata genome sequence and the basis of rapid genome size change. Nature Genet. 43: 476-481.
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