Tsai FY, Lin CY, Su YH, Yu JK*, Kuo DH* (2025) Evolutionary history of bilaterian FoxP genes: complex ancestral functions and evolutionary changes spanning 2R-WGD in the vertebrate lineage. Mol Biol Evol. 42(4):msaf072.
Leong WI, Yu JK, Tsai IJ, Kaczmarek Ł, Lee YC, Lin CP* (2024) Echiniscus gemmatus sp. nov. (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae; the spinulosus morphogroup) from Macau, China. Zootaxa 5551(2): 333–352.
Yu JK*, Peng LY, Chen CY, Lu TM, Holland ND, & Holland LZ (2024) Asymmetric segregation of maternal mRNAs and germline-related determinants in Cephalochordate embryos: implications for the evolution of early patterning events in chordates. Integrative & Comparative Biology 64(5): 1243–1254.
Chou C, Lin CY, Lin CY, Wang A, Fan TP, Wang KT, Yu JK, Su YH* (2024) Tracing the evolutionary origin of chordate somites in the hemichordate Ptychodera flava. Integrative & Comparative Biology 64(5): 1226–1242.
Pérez-Posada A*, Lin CY, Fan TP, Lin CY, Chen YC, Gómez-Skarmeta JL, Yu JK, Su YH*, Tena JJ* (2024) Hemichordate regulatory genomics and the gene expression dynamics of deuterostomes. Nat Ecol Evol 8: 2213–2227.
Lin CY, Marlétaz F, Pérez-Posada A, Martínez García PM, Schloissnig S, Peluso P, Conception GT, Bump P, Chen YC, Chou C, Lin CY, Fan TP, Tsai CT, Gómez Skarmeta JL, Tena JJ, Lowe CJ, Rank DR, Rokhsar DS*, Yu JK*, Su YH* (2024) Chromosome-level genome assemblies of two hemichordates provide new insights into deuterostome origin and chromosome evolution, PLOS Biology, 22(6): e3002661.
Huang Z, Xu L*, Cai C, Zhou Y, Liu J, Xu Z, Zhu Z, Kang W, Cen W, Pei S, Chen D, Shi C, Wu X, Huang Y, Xu C, Yan Y, Yang Y, Xue T, He W, Hu X, Zhang Y, Chen Y, Bi C, He C, Xue L, Xiao S, Yue Z, Jiang Y, Yu JK, Jarvis ED, Li G, Lin G*, Zhang Q*, Zhou Q* (2023) Three amphioxus reference genomes reveal gene and chromosome evolution of chordates. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 120 (10) e2201504120.
Cheng YR*, Lin CY, Yu JK* (2023) Embryonic and post-embryonic development in the parasitic copepod Ive ptychoderae (Copepoda: Iviidae): Insights into its phylogenetic position. PLOS One 18:e0281013.
Gil-Gálvez A, Jiménez-Gancedo S, Pérez-Posada A, Franke M, Acemel RD, Lin CY, Chou C, Su YH, Yu JK, Bertrand S, Schubert M, Escrivá H, Tena JJ*, Gómez-Skarmeta JL (2022) Gain of gene regulatory network interconnectivity at the origin of vertebrates. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 119 (11) e2114802119.
Yong LW, Lu TM, Tung CH, Chiou RJ, Li KL & Yu JK* (2021) Somite compartments in amphioxus and its implications on the evolution of the vertebrate skeletal tissues. Front Cell Dev Biol 9:607057.
Lin CY, Yu JK* & Su YH* (2021) Evidence for BMP-mediated specification of primordial germ cells in an indirect-developing hemichordate. Evol & Dev 2021 23:28-45.
Lin CY, Lu MYJ, Yue JX, Li KL. Le Pétillon Y, Yong LW, Chen YH, Tsai FU, Lyu YF, Chen CY, Hwang SPL, Su YH* & Yu JK* (2020) Molecular asymmetry in the cephalochordate embryo revealed by single-blastomere transcriptome profiling. PLOS Genetics 16:e1009294.
Simakov O*, Marletaz F, Yue JX, O'Connell B, Jenkins J, Brandt A, Calef R, Tung CH, Huang TK, Schmutz J, Satoh N, Yu JK, Putnam NH, Green RE & Rokhsar DS* (2020). Deeply conserved synteny resolves early events in vertebrate evolution. Nat Ecol Evol 4:820-830.
1Su YH*, Chen YC, Ting HC, Fan TP, Lin CY, Wang KT & Yu JK* (2019). BMP controls dorsoventral and neural patterning in indirect-developing hemichordates providing insight into a possible origin of chordates. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 116:12925-12932.