Major Publications
Xiaobo YU
ZHU,
Min and Xiaobo YU (in press). Lower jaw
character transitions among major sarcopterygian groups - a survey based on new
materials from Yunnan, China. In Recent Advances
in the Origin and Early Radiation of Vertebrates. eds. G. Arratia,
M. Wilson & R. Cloutier. Verlag Dr. F. Pfeil, Berlin.
ZHU,
Min and Xiaobo YU. A
primitive close to the common ancestor of lungfish and tetrapods (Click to view
Nature Abstract).Nature, 418: 767-770
(August 15), 2002.
ZHU,
Min, Xiaobo YU and Per AHLBERG. A
primitive sarcopterygian fish with an eyestalk (Click to view Nature Abstract).
Nature, 410: 81-84 (March 1), 2001.
ZHU,
Min, Xiaobo YU and Philippe JANVIER. A
primitive fossil fish sheds light on the origin of bony fishes. (Click to view
Nature Abstract).Nature, 379: 607-610
(18 February), 1999.
ZHU,
Min and Xiaobo YU. Evolutionary-Developmental
Biology: a new hybrid discipline for studying the origin of biodiversity."Science"
(a Chinese bimonthly science journal)(Click to see text in Chinese),
51(5):14-18, 1999. (in Chinese with English abstract)
YU, Xiaobo. A
new porolepiform-like fish, psarolepis romeri, gen. et sp. nov. (Sarcopterygii,
Osteichthyes) from the lower devonian of yunnan, china. (Click to view JVP Abstract).
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology,
18:261-274, 1998.
BAKER,
Richard, Xiaobo YU and Rob DeSalle. Assessing
the relative contribution of molecular and morphological characters in simultaneous
analysis trees. (Click to see Abstract). Molecular
Phylogenetics & Evolution, 9:427-36, 1998.
CHANG,
Mee-mann and Xiaobo YU. Re-examination of
the relationship of Middle Devonian osteolepids - fossil characters and their
interpretations. American Museum Novitates,
3189:1-20, 1997.
FAN,
Wuhang and Xiaobo YU. (Chapter contributions)
Yeast Artificial Chromosome (YAC) vector, Screening of DNA libraries, Liposome-mediate
transfection, Transient expression in mammalian cells with Vaccinia VTF7-3, Mini-scale
preparation of bacterial plasmid DNA, Large-prep of plasmid DNA by PEG precipitation,
Isolation of YAC DNA, Extraction of genomic DNA from mammalian cells, Membrane
protein extraction, Preparing cell lysate forprotein detection, Immunoprecipitation,
and Western blotting. In Practical Protocols in
Molecular Biology, ed. Y. Li and Y. Zhao, Science Press, Beijing
and New York, 312 pp. 1995.
CHANG,
Mee-mann, Xiaobo YU and Yu LIU. Studies of
Early Vertebrate Fossils of China. In Advances in
Science of China: Earth Sciences (G. Tu ,ed.). pp. 87-119. Science
Press, Beijing; John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1985.
CHANG,
Mee-mann and Xiaobo YU. Structure and significance
of Diabolichthys speratus gen. et sp. nov., an early Devonian lungfish associated
with Youngolepis from eastern Yunnan, China. Proc.
Linn. Soc. N.S.W. , 107(3):171-184, 1984.
CHANG,
Mee-mann, Minchen CHOW and Xiaobo YU (eds).
Translated Papers on Cladistics.
Science Press, Beijing, 209 pp.1983 (In Chinese).