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| Tian D, Shaw B, Chen J, Kreitman M, Bergelson J (2003) Fitness cost of R-gene mediated resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature 424:74-77 |
| Bergelson J, Kreitman M, Stahl E, Tian D (2001) Evolutionary dynamics of plant R-genes. Science 292:2281-2285 |
| Yang S, Li J, Zhang XH, Zhang QJ, Huang J, Chen JQ, Hartl DL, Tian D*. (2013) Rapidly evolving R genes in diverse grass species confer resistance to rice blast disease. Proc Natl Acad Sci 110: 18572-18577 |
| Yang S, Yuan Y, Wang L, Li J, Wang W, Liu H, Chen JQ, Hurst LD, Tian D*. (2012) Great majority of recombination events in Arabidopsis are gene conversion events. Proc Natl Acad Sci 109 :20992-20997 |
| Araki H, Tian D, Goss EM, Jakob K, Halldorsdottir SS, Kreitman M and Bergelson J. (2006) Presence/absence polymorphism for alternative pathogenicity islands in Pseudomonas viridiflava, a pathogen of Arabidopsis. Proc Natl Acad Sci 103:5587-5892 |
| Tian D, Akashi H, Stahl E, Bergelson J, Kreitman M (2002) Signature of balancing selection in
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| Zhang X#, Yang S#, Wang J#, Jia Y#, Huang J#, Zhong Y, Tan S, Wang L, Gu L, Chen JQ, Pan QH*, Bergelson J*, Tian D* (2015). A genome-wide survey reveals abundant rice blast R-genes in resistant cultivars. Plant J 84 :20-28 (IF5y =6.963) |
| Yue J-X, Meyers BC, Chen J-Q, Tian D*, Yang S. (2012) Tracing the origin and evolutionary history of plant nucleotide-binding site-leucine-rich repeat (NBS-LRR) genes. New Phytologist 193: 1049–1063 (IF=6.736) |
| Zhu L, Wang Q, Tang P, Araki H, Tian D*. (2009) Genome-wide association between insertions/deletions and the nucleotide diversity in bacteria. Mol Biol Evol 26:2353-2361 (IF=10.353) |
| Chen JQ, Wu Y, Yang H, Bergelson J, Kreitman M, Tian D*. (2009) Variation in the ratio of nucleotide substitution and indel rates across genomes in mammals and bacteria. Mol Biol Evol 26:1523-31 (IF=10.353) |
| Sun X, Zhang Y, Yang S, Chen JQ, Hohn B, Tian D* (2008) Insertion DNA promotes ectopic recombination during meiosis in Arabidopsis. Mol Biol Evol 25:2079-2083 (IF=10.353) |
| Gu T, Tan S, Gou X, Araki H, Tian D*. (2010) Avoidance of long mononucleotide repeats in codon pair usage. Genetics 186:1077-1084 |
| Shen J, Araki H, Chen L, Chen JQ, Tian D* (2006) Unique evolutionary mechanism in R-genes under the presence/absence polymorphism in Arabidopsis thaliana. Genetics 172 (2):1243-50 |
| Li J, Zhou J, Wu, Y, Yang S, Tian D*. (2015) GC-content of synonymous codons profoundly infulences amino acid usage. G3 : Genes|Genomes|Genetics 5(10):2027-36 |
| Tan S, Zhong Y, Hou H, Yang S, Tian D. (2012) Variation of presence/absence genes among Arabidopsis populations. BMC Evol Biol 12:86 |
| Wang L, Si W, Yao Y, Tian D, Araki H. Yang S. (2012) Genome-wide survey of pseudogenes in 80 fully re-sequenced Arabidopsis thaliana accessions. Plos One 7(12): e51769 |
| Tan S, Wang D, Ding J, Tian D, Zhang XH, Yang S. (2011) Adaptive evolution of Xa21 homologs in gramineae. Genteica 139:1465-1475 |
| Wang J, Zhang L, Li J, Lawton-Rauh A, Tian D. (2011) Unusual signatures of highly adaptable R-loci in closely-related Arabidopsis species. Gene 482:24–33 |
| Wang J, Tan SJ, Zhang L, Li P, Tian D. (2011) Co-Variation Among Major Classes of LRR-Encoding Genes in Two Pairs of Plant Species. J Mol Evol 72:498–509 |
| Wu Y, Yuan HZ, Tan SJ, Chen JQ, Tian D, Yang HW (2011) Increased complexity of gene structure and base composition in vertebrates. Journal of Genetics and Genomics 38: 297-305 |
| Zhang X, Wang L, Yuan Y, Tian D, Yang S. (2011) Rapid copy number expansion and recent recruitment of domains in S-receptor kinase-like genes contribute to the origin of self-incompatibility. FEBS J 278: 4323-4337 |
| Zhang X, Feng Y, Chen H, Tian D, Yang S, Chen J-Q (2011) Relative evolutionary rates of NBS-encoding genes revealed by soybean segmental duplication. Mol Genet Genomics 285: 79-90 |
| Yang H, Zhong Y, Peng C, Chen JQ, Tian D. (2010) Important role of indels in somatic mutations of human cancer genes. BMC Med Genet 11:128 |
| Yue J-X, Li J, Wang D, Araki H, Tian D, Yang S (2010) Genome-wide investigation reveals high evolutionary rates in annual plants. BMC Plant Biol 10: 242 |
| Li J, Ding J, Zhang W, Zhang Y, Tang P, Chen JQ, Tian D, Yang S. (2010) Unique pattern of number evolution in gramineous NBS-LRR genes. Mol Genet Genomics 283:427–438 |
| Chen Q, Han Z, Jiang H, Tian D, Yang S. (2010) Strong positive selection drives rapid diversification of R-genes in Arabidopsis relatives. J Mol Evol 70: 137-148 |
| Tang P, Zhang Y, Sun X, Tian D, Yang S, Ding J. (2010) Disease resistance signature of the leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase genes in four plant species. Plant Sci 179: 399-406 |
| Zhang Y, Wang J, Zhang X, Chen JQ, Tian D, Yang S. (2009) Genetic signature of rice domestication shown by a variety of genes. J Mol Evol 68:393-402 |
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| Ding J., Cheng H., Jin Q., Araki H., Yang Y, Tian D (2007) Contrasting patterns of evolution between allelic groups at a single locus in Arabidopsis. Genetica 29:235-242 |
| Ding J, Araki H, Wang Q, Zhang P, Chen JQ, Tian D (2007) Highly asymmetric rice genomes. BMC Genomics 8:154 |
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| Tian D, Niu C & Rose R. (2002) DNA transfer by highly asymmetric somatic hybridisation in Medicago truncatula x Medicago rugosa and Medicago truncatula x Medicago scutellata. Theo Appl Genet 104:9-16 |
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