Faculty and Staff------Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Details of the Faculty or Staff
Name	Peng Shi	Title
Highest Education	Professor	Address	Kunming Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences No. 32 Jiaochang Donglu, Kunming, Yunnan, 650223, P.R.China
Phone	+86 871 68125411	Zip Code	650223
Fax	+86 871 65199318	E-mail	ship@mail.kiz.ac.cn

Research Interest：

My research is focused on two main questions:
1) How can the integration of the animal sensory systems be used for adaptation to their environments? 2) How can information about natural selection be used in the dissection of genotype-phenotype correlations? My lab investigates these questions using a combination of empirical and computational approaches to analyze the large-scale genomic data.

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Selected Publication：

2010

1.Yang H, Shi P. Molecular and evolutionary analyses of formyl peptide receptors suggest the absence of VNO-specific FPRs in primates. (2010). J. Genet. Genomics 37:771-778.
2.Li Y, Liu Z, Shi P, Zhang J. The hearing gene Prestin unites echolocating bats and whales. (2010). Current Biology 20 (2): 55-56.
3.Wang G, Shi P, Zhu Z, Zhang Y. More Functional V1R Genes Occur in Nest-Living and Nocturnal Terricolous Mammals. (2010). Genome Biol. Evol. 2:277–283.
4.Wang G, Zhu Z, Shi P, Zhang Y Comparative genomic analysis reveals more functional nasal chem-oreceptors in nocturnal mammals than in diurnal mammals. (2010). Chinese Science Bulletin Vol. 55 (34): 3901-3910
5.Li J, Yang H, Li L, Li H, Ning T, Pan X, Shi P, Zhang Y. Artificial selection of the melanocortin receptor 1 gene in Chinese domestic pigs during domestication. (2010). Heredity 105: 274-281.
6.Zhang Z, Ye Z, Yu L, Shi P. Phylogenomic reconstruction of lactic acid bacteria: an update. (2011). BMC Evolutionary Biology 11:1 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-1.

1) Grus, W, Shi P and Zhang J. 2007. Largest vertebrate vomeronasal type 1 receptor (V1R) gene repertoire in the semi-aquatic platypus. Mol. Biol. Evol. 24 (10):2153-2157.
2) Bakewall M, Shi P and Zhang J. 2007. More genes underwent positive selection in chimpanzee evolution than in human evolution. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104: 7489-7494.
3) Shi P and Zhang J. 2007. Comparative genomic analysis identifies an evolutionary shift of vomeronasal receptor gene repertoires in the vertebrate transition from water to land. Genome Research 17:166-174.
4) Li G, Shi P and Wang Y. 2007. Evolutionary dynamics of the ABCA-chr17q24 cluster genes in vertebrates. Genomics 89 (3): 385-391.
5) Shi P*, Bakewall M* and Zhang J. 2006. Did brain-specific genes evolve faster in humans than in chimpanzees? Trends in Genetics 22(11):608-13 (* co-first author).
6) Shi P and Zhang J. 2006. Contrasting modes of evolution between vertebrate sweet/umami receptor genes and bitter receptor genes. Mol Biol Evol 23(2): 292-300.
7) Yang H*, Shi P*, Zhang Y-P and Zhang J. 2005. Composition and evolution of the V2R vomeronasal receptor gene repertoire in mice and rats. Genomics: 86(3): 306-315 (* co-first author).
8) Shi P, Bielawsk J., Yang H, and Zhang Y-P. 2005 Adaptive molecular evolution of vomeronasal receptor 1 gene family in rodents. J Mol Evol 60(5):566-576.
9) Grus, W*, Shi P*, Zhang Y-P and Zhang J. 2005. Dramatic variation of the vomeronasal pheromone receptor gene repertoire among five orders of placental and marsupial mammals. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102(16): 5767-5772 (* co-first author).
10) Shi P, Zhang J, Yang H, and Zhang Y-P. 2003. Adaptive diversification of bitter taste receptor genes in mammalian evolution. Mol Biol Evol 20(5): 805-814.

Lab staff