Selected Publications

Journal Articles

• Zhang Z.⁺, Presgraves DC. 2017. Translational compensation of gene copy number alterations by aneuploidy in Drosophila melanogaster. Nucleic Acid Research gkx106. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkx106 View and Download
• Zhang Z.⁺, Presgraves DC. 2015. Drosophila X-linked Genes Have Lower Translation Rates than Autosomal Genes. Molecular Biology and Evolution doi:10.1093/molbev/msv227. View and Download
• Wang M., Zhang P., Shu Y., Yuan F., Zhang Y., Zhou Y., Jiang M., Zhu Y., Hu L., Kong X.⁺, and Zhang Z.⁺. 2014. Alternative splicing at GYNNGY 5' splice sites:  more noise, less regulation. Nucleic Acid Research View and Download
• Zhang Z⁺, Klein J, Nei M. 2014. Evolution of the Sex-lethal Gene in Insects and Origin of the Sex-Determination System in Drosophila.J Mol Evol, 78, 50-65. View and Download
• Zhang Z⁺, Hu L, Kong X⁺: MicroRNA or NMD: Why Have Two RNA Silencing Systems? J Genet Genomics 2013, 40(10):497-513.View and Download (Cover Article)
• Miura S, Zhang Z, Nei M: Random fluctuation of selection coefficients and the extent of nucleotide variation in human populations. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2013, 110(26):10676-10681. View and Download
• Zhang L^*, Zhang Z^*, Weng Z: Rapid Reassortment of Internal Genes in Avian Influenza A(H7N9) Virus. Clin Infect Dis 2013, 57(7):1059-1061.View and Download
• Zhang L, Zhang Z, Weng Z, Shi W: Substitution rates of the internal genes in the novel avian H7N9 influenza virus. Clin Infect Dis 2013, 57(8):1213-1215.View and Download
• Liu, Y., H. Xu, S. Chen, X. Chen, Z. Zhang, Z. Zhu, X. Qin, L. Hu, J. Zhu, G. P. Zhao, and X. Kong. 2011. Genome-wide interaction-based association analysis identified multiple new susceptibility Loci for common diseases. PLoS Genet 7:e1001338. View and Download
• Zhou L, Zhang Z , Zheng Y, Zhu Y, Wei Z, Xu H, Tang Q, Kong X, Hu L: SKAP2, a novel target of HSF4b, associates with NCK2/F-actin at membrane ruffles and regulates actin reorganization in lens cell. J Cell Mol Med 2010 Mar 9. [Epub ahead of print] . View and Download
• Zhang Z, Zhou L, Hu L, Zhu Y, Xu H, Liu Y, Chen X, Yi X, Kong X, Hurst LD: Nonsense-mediated decay targets have multiple sequence-related features that can inhibit translation. Mol Syst Biol 2010, 6 View and Download
• Zhang Z , Xin D, Wang P, Zhou L, Hu L, Kong X, Hurst LD: Noisy splicing, more than expression regulation, explains why some exons are subject to nonsense-mediated mRNA decay. BMC Biol 2009, 7: 23. View and Download
• Zhang Z ^*, Zhou L^*, Wang P, Liu Y, Chen X, Hu L, Kong X. Divergence of exonic splicing elements after gene duplication and the impact on gene structures. Genome Biol . 2009 Nov 2; 10(11):R120. View and Download Highly Accessed
• Wang P, Yin S, Zhang Z, Xin D, Hu L, Kong X, Hurst LD: Evidence for common short natural trans sense-antisense pairing between transcripts from protein coding genes. Genome Biol 2008, 9: R169. View and Download Highly Accessed

Book Chapters

Preprints

• Zhang, L., and Z. Zhang§. 2013. The Origin of human-infecting avian influenza A H6N1 virus. bioRxiv. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/000398
• Z. Zhang. 2015. CUA: a Flexible and Comprehensive Codon Usage Analyzer. bioRxiv. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/022814

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