WANG Yanhui
Associate Professor / Master's supervisor
Direction:Evolution and Genomics
Research Area:The main research direction is the species diversity and evolutionary history of aquatic insects, as well as their adaptive mechanisms at the structural and molecular levels. At present, the research mainly focuses on aquatic stink bugs, and works are carried out from different aspects such as classical taxonomy (extant and fossil taxa), molecular phylogenetics, and multi omics (including genome, transcriptome, metagenome, and metabarcoding).
Links: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yanhui-Wang-6
Email: wangyanh3@mail.sysu.edu.cn
BACKGROUND
——Education
06/2015 Ph.D. in College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin
06/2012 M.S. in College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin
07/2009 B.E. in School of Life Science and Technology, Nanyang Nomal University, Henan
——Professional Experience
2015-2017 Postdoctoral Research Associate, College of Computer and Control Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin.
2017-2023 Assistant Researcher, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong.
2023- Associate Professor, School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen.
——Courses Taught
Zoology, Animal systematics, Systematic Entomology, Insect World and Human Society
Grants
1. 2024-2027 Studies on the adaptive characters of true water bugs to water environments, National Natural Science Foundation of China;
2. 2023-2028 Biodiversity survey of forest canopy arthropods in tropical and subtropical China, Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China;
3. 2017-2019 Phylogeny of Scutelleridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) based on nuclear genes and mitochondrial genes, National Natural Science Foundation of China;
4. 2019-2021 Molecular phylogenetics and comparative morphology of Corixoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Nepomorpha), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities;
5. 2021-2024 Research on the application of symbiotic bacteria in the biological control of the litchi stink bug (Tessaratoma papillosa), Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Bureau;
Publications
1. Xie BJ, Chen PP, Damgaard J, Xie JY, Xie Q, Wang YH* (2024) Paraphyly of the subgenus Micronecta (Micronecta) Kirkaldy, 1897 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Micronectidae) based on mitochondrial genomes and nuclear rDNAs. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny, 82:77–87.
2. Wang YH, Luan YX, Luo JY, Men Y, Engel MS, Damgaard J, Khila A, Chen PP, Moreira FFF, Rafael JA, Xie Q. (2023) 300 Million years of coral treaders (Insecta: Heteroptera: Hermatobatidae) back to the ocean in the phylogenetic context of Arthropoda. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 290:20230855.
3. Yang ZW, Luo JY, Men Y, Liu ZH, Zheng ZK, Wang YH, Xie Q. (2023) Different roles of host and habitat in determining the microbial communities of plant-feeding true bugs. Microbiome, 11:244.
4. Men Y, Yang ZW, Luo JY, Chen PP, Moreira FFF, Liu ZH, Yin JD, Xie BJ, Wang YH*, Xie Q. (2022) Symbiotic microorganisms and their different association types in aquatic and semi-aquatic bugs. Microbiology Spectrum, 10: e0279422.
5. Luo JY, Wang YH*, Chen PP, Xie Q. (2022) First record of the intertidal dwarf bug family Omaniidae from China, with description of a new species (Heteroptera: Leptopodomorpha). Zootaxa, 5195:449–467.
6. Armisén D, Viala S, Cordeiro IDRS, Crumière AJJ, Hendaoui E, Bouquin AL, Duchemin W, Santos E, Toubiana W, Vargas-Lowman A, Floriano CFB, Polhemus DA, Wang YH, Rowe L, Moreira FFF, Khila A (2022) Transcriptome-based phylogeny of the semi-aquatic bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha) reveals patterns of lineage expansion in a series of new adaptive zones. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39, msac229.
7. Wang YH, Moreira FFF, Rédei D, Chen PP, Kuechler SM, Luo JY, Men Y, Wu HY, XIE Q (2021) Diversified adaptation of true water bugs revealed by transcriptome-based phylogenomics. Systematic Entomology, 46:339–356.
8. Wang YH#, Wu HY#, Redei D#, et al. (2019) When did the ancestor of true bugs become stinky? Disentangling the phylogenomics of Hemiptera–Heteroptera. Cladistics, 35:42–66.
9. Luo JY, Chen PP, Wang YH*, Xie Q. (2019) First record of Hermatobatidae from China, with description of Hermatobates lingyangjiaoensis sp. n. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Zootaxa, 4679:527–538.
10. Wu YZ#, Redei D#, Eger J Jr#, Wang YH#*, Wu HY, Carapezza A, Kment P, Cai B, Sun XY, Guo PL, Luo JY, Xie Q*. (2018) Phylogeny and the colourful historyof jewel bugs (Insecta: Hemiptera: Scutelleridae). Cladistics, 34:502–516.
11. Wang YH#, Cui Y#, Rédei D#, Baňař P#, et al. (2016) Phylogenetic divergences of the true bugs (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera), with emphasis on the aquatic lineages: the last piece of the aquatic insect jigsaw originated in the Late Permian/Early Triassic. Cladistics, 32:390–405.
12. Wang YH, Engel MS, Rafael JA, Wu HY, Rédei D, Xie Q, Wang G, Liu XG, Bu WJ (2016) Fossil record of stem groups employed in evaluating the chronogram of insects (Arthropoda: Hexapoda). Scientific Reports, 6:38939.
13. Wang YH, Xie Q (2014) The molecular symplesiomorphies shared by the stem groups of Metazoan evolution: can sites as few as 1 % have a significant impact on recognizing the phylogenetic position of Myzostomida? Journal of Molecular Evolution 79:63–74.
14. Wang YH, Engel MS, Rafael JA, Dang K, Wu HY, Wang Y, Xie Q, Bu WJ (2013) A Unique Box in 28S rRNA Is Shared by the Enigmatic Insect Order Zoraptera and Dictyoptera. PLoS ONE, 8:e53679.
