YNU researcher co-publishes article in prestigious journal

The prestigious Science China Life Sciences – an academic journal cosponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Natural Science Foundation of China – recently published an article entitled Molecular Mechanisms of Adaptive Evolution in Wild Animals and Plants online.

As co-author, researcher Yu Li at Yunnan University, or YNU – located in Kunming, Southwest China's Yunnan province – participated in the "Convergent Evolution of Wild Animals" section of the review.

It covers the latest progress made in understanding the adaptive evolution of wild animals and plants from the perspective of adaptive traits, convergent evolution and coevolution. This latest research is said to show how the application of multi-omics technology and methods has greatly promoted the development of evolutionary biology.

Adaptive evolution is understood to be the basis for the survival and maintenance of species, driving the emergence of many adaptive traits of wild animals and plants.