Qian Yu
Post Doctoral Fellow
qianyu(at)indiana.edu

PhD 2006-2011, Wuhan University, Indiana University
MSc, 2001-2004, Wuhan University, China
BSc, 1997-2001, Wuhan University, China

Generally I have been interested in looking at evolution in plants using a variety of approaches. I believe integration of results from different levels and perspectives could yield better insights to evolutionary questions. In the past I studied phenotypic plasticity in columbines, breeding system shift in butterburs, and epistasis in Silene latifolia. Currently I am studying on the population differentiation of giant ragweed between native and introduced ranges, and potential heterosis effect in sunflowers.

Publications:
Lai Z, N Kane, A Kozik, K Hodgins, KM Dlugosch, M Barker, M Matvienko, Yu Q, K Turner, S Pearl, G Bell, Y Zou, C Grassa, A Guggisberg, K Adams, J Anderson, D Horvath,  Kesseli, J Burke, R Michelmore, LH Rieseberg (2011) Genomics of Compositae weeds: EST libraries, microarrays, and evidence of introgression.  American Journal of Botany 99:209-18.

Yu Q, Li D-X, Luo W, Guo Y-H. (2011) Function and evolution of sterile sex organs in cryptically dioecious Petasites tricholobus (Asteraceae). Annals of Botany 108:65-71.                                                

Yu Q, E. D. Ellen, M. J. Wade, and L. F. Delph. Genetic differences among populations in sexual dimorphism: evidence for selection on males in a dioecious plant. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24: 1120-1127.

Zhang Y-W, Yu Q, Zhao J-M, Guo Y-H. (2009) Differential effects of nectar robbing by the same bumble-bee species on three sympatric Corydalis species with varied mating systems. Annals of botany 104:33-39.

Yu Q, Zhang Y-W, Guo Y-H. (2008) Translation and elucidation of common terms in pollination biology. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 46:96-102.

Tang L-L, Yu Q, Sun J-F, Huang S-Q. (2007) Floral traits and isolation of three sympatric Aquilegia species in the Qinling Mountains, China. Plant Systematics and Evolution 267: 121–128.

Yu Q, Huang S-Q. (2006) Flexible stigma presentation assists context-dependent pollination in a wild columbine. New Phytologist 169: 237–242.

Yu Q, Guo Y-H, Huang S-Q. (2005) Characters of stigma in three Aquilegia species. Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica 43: 513–516.

Huang S-Q, Tang L-L, Yu Q, Guo Y-H. (2004) Temporal floral sex allocation in protogynous Aquilegia yabeana contrasts with protandrous species: support for the mating environment hypothesis. Evolution 58: 1131-1134.