Qu Zhe

1. Personal Profile

Name: Qu Zhe

Education background: doctoral candidate

Title: Professor

Office telephone:

Email: qz@ouc.edu.cn

2.Teaching course 

Biotechnology

3.Research direction

Regulation mechanism of marine arthropod hormone system

Behavior regulation and evolution of crustaceans

4. Research results

Nong W^#, Qu Z^#, Li Y^#, Barton-Owen T^#, Wong AYP^#, Yip HY, Lee HT, Narayana S, Baril T, Swale T, Cao J, Chan TF, Kwan HS, Ngai SM, Panagiotou G, Qian PY, Qiu JW, Yip KY, Ismail N, Pati S, John A, Tobe SS, Bendena WG, Cheung SG, Hayward A, Hui JHL*. 2021. Horseshoe crab genomes reveal the evolution of genes and microRNAs after three rounds of whole genome duplication. Communications Biology 4(1), 83.

Qu Z^#, Yiu WC^#, Yip HY^#, Nong WY^#, Yu CW, Lee IH, Wong AY, Wong NW, Cheung FK, Chan TF, Lau KF, Zhong S, Chu KH, Tobe SS, Ferrier DE, Bendena WG, Hui JHL*. 2020. MicroRNA clusters integrate evolutionary constraints on expression and target affinities: the miR-6/5/4/286/3/309 cluster in Drosophila. Molecular Biology and Evolution 37(10), 2955-2965.

Qu Z^#, Nong WY^#, So WL^#, Barton-Owen T^#, Li YQ^#, Leung TC, Li C, Baril T, Wong AY, Swale T, Chan TF, Hayward A, Ngai SM, Hui JHL*. 2020. Millipede genomes reveal unique adaptation of genes and microRNAs during myriapod evolution. PLoS Biology 18(9), e3000636.

Nong WY^#, Cao JQ^#, Li YQ^#,Qu Z^#,Sun J, Swale T, Yip HY, Qian PY, Qiu JW, Kwan HS, Bendena WG, Tobe SS, Chan TF, Yip KY, Chu KH, Ngai SM, Tsim KY, Holland PW*, Hui JHL*. 2020.Jellyfish genomes reveal distinct homeobox gene clusters and conservation of small RNA processing. Nature Communications 11(1), 3051.

Qu Z*^#, Nong W^#, Yu Y^#, Baril T^#, Yip HY, Hayward A*, Hui JHL*. 2020. Genome of the four-finger threadfin Eleutheronema tetradactylum (Perciforms: Polynemidae). BMC Genomics 21(1), 726.

Qu Z^#, Leung TC^#, Nong WY^#, Yip HY^#, Lee IH, Cheung SG, Ngai SM, So WL, Bendena WG, Tobe SS, Hui JHL*. 2020. Hemolymph proteomics and gut microbiota of horseshoe crabs Tachypleus tridentatus and Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda. Frontiers in Marine Science 7, 579706.

Qu Z, Bendena WG*, Tobe SS*, Hui JHL*. 2018. Juvenile hormone and sesquiterpenoids in arthropods: Biosynthesis, Signaling, and role of MicroRNA. Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 184, 69-76.

Qu Z, Bendena WG, Nong W, Siggens KW, Noriega FG, Kai Z-p, Zang Y-y, Koon AC, Chan HYE, Chan TF, Chu KH, Lam HM, Akam M, Tobe SS, Hui JHL*. 2017. MicroRNAs regulate the sesquiterpenoid hormonal pathway in Drosophila and other arthropods. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284(1869), 2017182.