Educational experience：
BAg: Agronomy, Henan Agricultural University, China, 1985 MS: Botany, Henan Agricultural University, China, 1988 Ph.D: Botany, University of Vienna, Austria, 2004
Statement：
I work on plant evolution and systematics with emphasis on molecular systematics, phylogeography, speciation, and the developmental genetics of leaves and flowers. My primary research interest concerns hybrid and polyploid speciation in Eastern Asian yarrows (Achillea). Much of this work focus on analyzing patterns of variation, and the influence of polyploidy on homeologous gene expression and its phenotypic consequences. In recent years, I have a particular interest in the evolutionary developments of plant leaves and flowers, especially ecological factors influencing leaf marginal shapes, and genes regulating the Asteraceae flower-heads.
Selected Publication：
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Sha S, Chen D, Liu M, Li K-L, Jiang C-K, Wang D-H, Guo Y-P*. 2018. To be serrate or pinnate: diverse leaf forms of yarrows (Achillea) are linked to differential expression patterns of NAM genes. Annals of Botany, 121: 255–266. (doi:10.1093/aob/mcx152)
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Chen J, Shen C-Z, Guo Y-P*, Rao G-Y*. 2018. Patterning the Asteraceae capitulum: Duplications and differential expression of the flower symmetry CYC2-Like genes. Frontiers in Plant Science, doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00551
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Ren J-B, Guo Y-P*. 2015. Behind the diversity: Ontogenies of radiate, disciform, and discoid capitula of Chrysanthemum and its allies. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 53(6): 520–528. (doi: 10.1111/jse.12154)
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Guo Y-P, X-Y Tong, L-W Wang, Vogl C. 2013. A population genetic model to infer allotetraploid speciation and long-term evolution applied to two yarrow species. New Phytologist, 199: 609–621. (doi: 10.1111/nph.12262)
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Guo Y-P*, Wang S-Z, Vogl C, Ehrendorfer F. 2012. Nuclear and plastid haplotypes suggest rapid diploid and polyploid speciation in the N Hemisphere Achillea millefolium complex (Asteraceae). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 12: 2.
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Ma J-X, Li Y-N, Vogl C, Ehrendorfe F, Guo Y-P*. 2010. Allopolyploid speciation and ongoing backcrossing between diploid progenitor and tetraploid progeny lineages in the Achillea millefolium species complex: analyses of single-copy nuclear genes and genomic AFLP. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 10:100.
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Guo Y-P, Saukel J, Ehrendorfer F. 2008. AFLP trees versus scatterplots: evolution and phylogeography of the polyploid complex Achillea millefolium agg. (Asteraceae). Taxon, 57: 153–169.
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Guo Y-P, Vogl C, Loo M van, Ehrendorfer F. 2006. Hybrid origin and differentiation of two tetraploid Achillea species in E Asia: molecular, morphological and eco-geographical evidence. Molecular Ecology, 15: 133–144.
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Guo Y-P, Saukel J, Mittermayr R, Ehrendorfer F. 2005. AFLP analyses demonstrate genetic divergence, hybridization, and multiple polyploidization in the evolution of Achillea (Asteraceae-Anthemideae). New Phytologist, 166: 273–290.
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Guo Y-P, Ehrendorfer F, Samuel R. 2004. Phylogeny and systematics of Achillea (Asteraceae-Anthemideae) inferred from the nrITS and plastid trnL-F DNA sequences. Taxon, 53: 657–672.
