Name：Ming-Long Yuan

Sex：Male 

Date of birth：1982

Nationality：Chinese

Marital status：Married

Institution：College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University (LZU), Lanzhou, China;

Address：No 768, Jiyuguan West Road, Lanzhou 730020, China

Telephone：+86-18298417385 (cell phone)

Email：yuanml@lzu.edu.cn

EDUCATIONS AND QUALIFICATION

2008~2011 PhD of Agricultural Entomology and Pest Control, Southwest Universtiy, Beibei city, Chongqing, China

2005~2008 Master degree of Pesticide Science, College of Plant Protection, Southwest University, Beibei city, Chongqing, China.

2001~2005 Bachelor degree of Agricultural Science in plant protection, College of Agronomy, Sanxi Agricultural University, Taigu city, Shanxi, China.

EMPLOYMENT

2013~presentAssoceate Professor, College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University

2011~2013Lecturer, College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University

TEACHING

Undergraduates

2012~present Grassland Protection

Graduates

2015~presentScientific Paper Writing

RESEARCH FIELDS

Grassland Pest Control: Investigating species diversity of insect pests destroying natural (the Tibetan Plateau) and cultivated grasslands (alfalfa), developing integrated management stratigies for these grassland pests.

Insect Ecological Genomics: Exporing the adaptive mechanisms of grassland pests to abiotic and biotic environmental factors, in particular ecological speciation, highi-altitude adaptation and polymorphisms.

Insect mitogenomics: Sequencing mitochondrial genomes of important grassland pests, reconstructing the phylogeny of various taxomic levels based on mitogenomic data.

PUBLICATIONS

1.Zhang QL, Yang XZ, Zhang L, Feng RQ, Zhu QH, Chen JY, Yuan ML*. 2018. Adaptive evidence of mitochondrial genomes in Dolycoris baccarum (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) to divergent altitude environments. Mitochondrial DNA Part A, doi: 10.1080/24701394.2018.1446951.

2.Yuan ML†,*, Zhang QL†, Zhang L, Jia CL, Li XP, Yang XZ, Feng RQ. 2018. Mitochondrial phylogeny, divergence history and high-altitude adaptation of grassland caterpillars (Lepidoptera: Lymantriinae: Gynaephora) inhabiting the Tibetan Plateau. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 122: 116-124.

3.Zhang L, Wang MY, Li XP, Wang XT, Jia CL, Yang XZ, Feng RQ, Yuan ML*. 2018. A small set of differentially expressed genes was associated with two color morphs in natural populations of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum. Gene, 651: 23-32.

4.Zhang QL†, Zhang L†, Yang XZ, Wang XT, Li XP, Wang J, Chen JY, Yuan ML*. 2017. Comparative transcriptomic analysis of Tibetan Gynaephora to explore the genetic basis of insect adaptation to divergent altitude environments. Scientific Reports,  7: 16972.

5.Zhang L†, Zhang QL†, Wang XT, Yang XZ, Li XP, and Yuan ML*. 2017. Selection of reference genes for qRT-PCR and expression analysis of high-altitude related genes in grassland caterpillars (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Gynaephora) along altitude gradients. Ecology and Evolution, 7: 9054-9065.

6.Wang J†,  Zhang L†, Zhang QL†, Zhou MQ, Wang XT, Yang XZ and Yuan ML*. 2017. Comparative mitogenomic analysis of mirid bugs (Hemiptera: Miridae) and evaluation of potential DNA barcoding markers. PeerJ, 5: e3661.

7.Zhang QL†, Zhang L†, Zhao TX, Wang J, Zhu QH, Chen JY* and Yuan ML*. 2017. Gene sequence variations and expression patterns of mitochondrial genes are associated with the adaptive evolution of two Gynaephora species (Lepidoptera: Lymantriinae) living in different high-elevation environments. Gene, 610: 148-155.

8.Tang PA*, Wu HJ, Xue H, Ju XR, Song W, Zhang QL and Yuan ML*. 2017. Characterization of transcriptome in the Indian meal moth Plodia interpunctella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) and gene expression analysis during developmental stages. Gene, 622: 29-41.

9.Tang PA*, Duan JY, Wu HJ, Ju XR Ju and Yuan ML*. 2017. Reference gene selection to determine differences in mitochondrial gene expressions in phosphine-susceptible and phosphine-resistant strains of Cryptolestes ferrugineus, using qRT-PCR. Scientific Reports, 7: 7047.

10.Yuan ML*, Zhang QL, Zhang L, Guo ZL, Liu YJ, Shen YY and Shao R. 2016. High-level phylogeny of the Coleoptera inferred with mitochondrial genome sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 104: 99-111.

11.Yuan ML*, Zhang QL, Wang ZF, Guo ZL, Bao GS. 2015. Molecular Phylogeny of Grassland Caterpillars (Lepidoptera: Lymantriinae: Gynaephora) Endemic to the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. PLoS ONE, 10: e0127257.

12.Yuan ML*, Zhang QL, Guo ZL, Wang J, Shen YY. 2015. Comparative mitogenomic analysis of the superfamily Pentatomoidea (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) and phylogenetic implications. BMC Genomics, 16: 460. 

13.Yuan ML*, Zhang QL, Guo ZL, Wang J, Shen YY. 2015. The complete mitochondrial genome of Corizus tetraspilus (Hemiptera: Rhopalidae) and phylogenetic analysis of Pentatomomorpha. PLoS ONE, 10: e0129003.

14.Yuan ML*, Zhang QL. 2013. The complete mitochondrial genome of Gynaephora menyuanensis (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae) from the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Mitochondrial DNA, 24 (4): 328-330.

15.Zhang QL, Yuan ML*. 2013. The complete mitochondrial genome of Dolycoris baccarum (Insecta: Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). Mitochondrial DNA, 24 (5): 469-471.

16.Yuan ML, Wang BJ, Lu F, Hu CX, Wei DD, Wang JJ*. 2011. Evaluation of genetic diversity and population structure of Panonychus citri (Acari: Tetranychidae) in China using ribosomal internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS1) sequences. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 104 (4): 800-807.

17.Yuan ML, Wei DD, Wang BJ, Dou W, Wang JJ*. 2010. The complete mitochondrial genome of the citrus red mite Panonychus citri (Acari: Tetranychidae): high genome rearrangement and extremely truncated tRNAs. BMC Genomics, 11: 597. 

18.Yuan ML, Wei DD, Zhang K, Gao YZ, Liu YH, WANG BJ, Wang JJ*. 2010. Genetic diversity and population structure of the citrus red mite, Panonychus citri (Acari: Tetranychidae), in China based on mitochondrial COI gene sequences. Journal of Economic Entomology, 103 (6): 2204-2213.