Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
University of Michigan
Kraus Natural Science Building
830 North University Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048
USA
Phone: 734-764-8279 (office)
       734-764-8298 (lab)
FAX:   734-763-0544
E-mail:ylqiu@umich.edu

Education

1984   B.S. in Agricultural Sciences
       Department of Horticultural Sciences
       Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
1993   Ph.D. in Biology
       Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Postdoctoral

1994-1995  Postdoctoral Fellow
           Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington
1996-1997  NIH Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests

Land plant phylogeny, basal angiosperm phylogeny, genome evolution in land plants .

Membership

1987-present    Botanical Society of America
1990-present    American Society of Plant Taxonomists
1992-present    American Association for the Advancement of Science
2006-present    American Bryological and Lichenological Society
2006-present    International Association for Plant Taxonomy

Representative Publications

1. Qiu, Y.-L., L. Li, B. Wang, Z. Chen, O. Dombrovska, J. Lee, L. Kent, R. Li, R. W. Jobson, T. A. Hendry, D. W. Taylor, C. M. Testa, M. Ambros. A nonflowering land plant phylogeny inferred from nucleotide sequences of seven chloroplast, mitochondrial and nuclear genes. International Journal of Plant Sciences 168: 691-708.

2. Qiu, Y.-L., L. Li, T. A. Hendry, R. Li, D. W. Taylor, M. J. Issa, A. J. Ronen, M. L. Vekaria, & A. M. White. 2006. Reconstructing the basal angiosperm phylogeny: evaluating information content of the mitochondrial genes. Taxon 55: 837-856.

3. Qiu, Y.-L., L. Li, B. Wang, Z. Chen, V. Knoop, M. Groth-Malonek, O. Dombrovska, J. Lee, L. Kent, J. Rest, G. F. Estabrook, T. A. Hendry, D. W. Taylor, C. M. Testa, M. Ambros, B. Crandall-Stotler, R. J. Duff, M. Stech, W. Frey, D. Quandt, C. C. Davis. 2006. The deepest divergences in land plants inferred from phylogenomic evidence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 103: 15511-15516.

4. Wang, B. & Y.-L. Qiu. 2006. Phylogenetic distribution and evolution of mycorrhizas in land plants. Mycorrhiza 16: 299-363.

5. Qiu, Y.-L., O. Dombrovska, J. Lee, L. Li, B. A. Whitlock, F. Bernasconi-Quadroni, J. S. Rest, C. C. Davis, T. Borsch, K. W. Hilu, S. S. Renner, D. E. Soltis, P. S. Soltis, M. J. Zanis, J. J. Cannone, R. R. Gutell, M. Powell, V. Savolainen, L. W. Chatrou, & M. W. Chase. 2005. Phylogenetic analysis of basal angiosperms based on nine plastid, mitochondrial, and nuclear genes. International Journal of Plant Sciences 166: 815-842.

6. Qiu, Y.-L. & J. D. Palmer. 2004. Many independent origins of trans-splicing of a plant mitochondrial group II intron. Journal of Molecular Evolution 59: 80-89.

7. Dombrovska O. & Y.-L. Qiu. 2004. Distribution of introns in the mitochondrial gene nad1 in land plants: phylogenetic and molecular evolutionary implications. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 32: 246-263.

8. Qiu, Y.-L., J. Lee, B. A. Whitlock, F. Bernasconi-Quadroni, & O. Dombrovska. 2001. Was the ANITA rooting of the angiosperm phylogeny affected by long branch attraction? Molecular Biology and Evolution 18: 1745-1753.

9. Qiu, Y.-L., J. Lee, F. Bernasconi-Quadroni, D. E. Soltis, P. S. Soltis, M. Zanis, E. A. Zimmer, Z. Chen, V. Savolainen, & M. W. Chase. 2000. Phylogeny of basal angiosperms: analyses of five genes from three genomes. International Journal of Plant Sciences 161: S3-S27.

10. Qiu, Y.-L., J. Lee, F. Bernasconi-Quadroni, D. E. Soltis, P. S. Soltis, M. Zanis, E. A. Zimmer, Z. Chen, V. Savolainen, & M. W. Chase. 1999. The earliest angiosperms: evidence from mitochondrial, plastid and nuclear genomes. Nature 402: 404-407.

11. Qiu, Y.-L., M. W. Chase, S. Hoot, E. Conti, P. R. Crane, K. J. Sytsma, & C. R. Parks. 1998. Phylogenetics of the Hamamelidae and their allies: parsimony analyses of nucleotide sequences of the plastid gene rbcL. International Journal of Plant Sciences 159: 891-905.

12. Qiu, Y.-L., Y. Cho, J. C. Cox, & J. D. Palmer. 1998. The gain of three mitochondrial introns identifies liverworts as the earliest land plants. Nature 394: 671-674.

13. Qiu, Y.-L., C. R. Parks, & M. W. Chase. 1995. Molecular divergence in the eastern Asia-eastern North America disjunct section Rytidospermum of Magnolia (Magnoliaceae). American Journal of Botany 82: 1589-1598.

14. Qiu, Y.-L., M. W. Chase, D. H. Les, & C. R. Parks. 1993. Molecular phylogenetics of the Magnoliidae: cladistic analyses of nucleotide sequences of the plastid gene rbcL. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 80: 587-606.