CAI Zhenyuan Associate professor
Highest Education: Ph. D
Subject: Zoology
E-mail: caizhenyuan@nwipb.cas.cn
Address: 23 Xinning Road, Xining, Qinghai, China
Employment:
2021.01-present Associate professor, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
09/2016-12/2020 Assistant professor, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
09/2009-08/2009 Engineer, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
07/2006-08/2009 Assistant engineer, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Education: 09/2016-01/2020 Ph. D, Zoology, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
09/2003-07/2006 M. S., Zoology, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
09/1999-07/2003 B. S., Biology, Collage of Life Science, Qufu Normal University
Second Prize of 2018-2019 Excellent Academic Achievements in Natural Science of Xining City, 2020
Thousand People Plan of Qinghai Province, 2020
CAS Key Technology Talent, 2016
Outstanding Graduate of Shandong Province, 2003
[#contributed equally; *corresponding author]
1. Pengfei Song, Hongmei Gao, Feng Jiang, Tongzuo Zhang, Zhenyuan Cai*. Characteristics of the mitochondrial genome of Qinling zokor (Eospalax rufescens). Mitochondrial DNA Part B-Resources, 2020, 5 (3):2161-2162
2. Pengfei Song, Wen Qin, Yangan Huang, Lei Wang, Zhenyuan Cai*, Tongzuo Zhang*. Grazing Management Influences Gut Microbial Diversity of Livestock in the Same Area. Sustainability, 2020, 12(10), 4160
3. Feng Jiang#, Jingjie Zhang#, Hongmei Gao, Zhenyuan Cai, Xiaowen Zhou, Shengqing Li, Tongzuo Zhang*. Musk deer (Moschus spp.) face redistribution to higher elevations and latitudes under climate change in China. Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 704(2020): 135335
4. Zhenyuan Cai, Yu Zhang, Hongmei Gao, Pengfei Song, Jingjie Zhang, Tongzuo Zhang*. The complete mitochondrial genome of Chinese zokor (Eospalax fontanierii). Mitochondrial DNA Part B-Resources, 2019, 4(1): 153-154.
5. Zhenyuan Cai#, Liuyang Wang#, Xiaoying Song#, Somnath Tagore, Xiangfeng Li, Huihua Wang, Jiarui Chen, Kexin Li, Zeev Frenkel, Dahai Gao, Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern*, Tongzuo Zhang*, Eviatar Nevo*. Adaptive Transcriptome Profling of Subterranean Zokor, Myospalax baileyi, to High- Altitude Stresses in Tibet. Scientific Reports, 2018, 8:4671
6. Kexin Li#, Huihua Wang#, Zhenyuan Cai#, Liuyang Wang, Qinqin Xu, Matej L？vy, Zhenlong Wang*, Eviatar Nevo*. Sympatric speciation of spiny mice, Acomys, unfolded transcriptomically at Evolution Canyon, Israel. PNAS, 2016, 113(29): 8254-8259
7. Lizhou Tang, Liuyang Wang, Zhenyuan Cai, Tongzuo Zhang, Haixin Ci, GongHua Lin, JianPing Su*, JianQuan Liu*. Allopatric divergence and phylogeographic structure of the plateau zokor (Eospalax baileyi), a fossorial rodent endemic to the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Biogeography, 2010, 37, 657-668.
8. Gonghua Lin#, Zhenyuan Cai#, Tongzuo Zhang, Jianping Su*, S.J. Thirgood. Genetic diversity of the subterranean Gansu zokor in a semi-natural landscape. Journal of Zoology, 2008, 275(2008): 153-159
9. Cai Zhenyuan, Qin Wen, Gao Hongmei, Wu Tong, Chi Xiangwen, YangJundong, Miao Ziyan, Zhang Jingjie, Song Pengfei, Lian Xinming, Su Jianping, Zhang Tongzuo*. Species diversity and fauna of mammals in Sangjingyuan National Park.
10. Cai Zhenyuan, Zhang Yu, Du Yurong, Su Jianping, Zhang Tongzuo*. Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Gansu Zokors (Myospalax cansus) in Eastern Qinghai Inferred from Mitochondrial D-loop Sequences. Chinese Journal of Zoology, 2015, 50(3): 337-351.
Cai Zhenyuan, Zhang Tongzuo, Ci Haixin, Tang Lizhou, Lian Xinming, Liu Jianquan*, Su Jianping*. Mitochondrial phylogeography and genetic diversity of plateau zokor (Myospalax baileyi).
1. 2021-2023 Taxonomy and phylogeny of Myospalacinae in China. National Natural Science Foundation of China (32000305)
2. 2020-2022 Chinese Academy of Sciences-People's Government of Qinghai Province Joint Grant on Sanjiangyuan National Park Research (LHZX-2020-07-07)
3. 2019-2024 Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Grant (2019QZKK05010402)
4. 2019-2020 Applied Basic Research Program of Qinghai Science (2019-ZJ-7069) 2017-2020 The National Key R&D Program of China (2017YFC0506405)