1999.9–2004.6 Doctorate in Zoology: Nankai University
1995.9–1999.6 Bachelor's in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: Nankai University
Discovered new species and genera in Hemiptera through systematic exploration
Published 30 SCI papers in high-level journals
2017.01-present - Sun Yat-sen University - Professor and Doctoral Supervisor
2014.06-2016.12 - Nankai University - Doctoral Supervisor
2013.12-2016.12 - Nankai University - Researcher
2006.12-2013.12 - Nankai University - Associate Professor
2004.07-2006.12 - Nankai University - Lecturer
2012: Michail Josifov Award from the European Hemipterists Society
2006: Nils Møller Anderson Award from the International Heteropterists’ Society
Research
Insect Taxonomy and Phylogeny Insect Ecology and Microbiology rRNA/Ribosome
Heissophila macrotheleae Schuh, 2006, the first record of the subfamily Heissophilinae from China (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Plokiophilidae)., Yin J-D, Bu W-J, Xie Q, 2023
300 Million years of coral treaders (Insecta: Heteroptera: Hermatobatidae) back to the ocean in the phylogenetic context of Arthropoda., Wang Y-H, Luan Y-X, Luo J-Y, Men Y, Engel MS, Damgaard J, Khila A, Chen P-P, Moreira FFF, Rafael JA, Xie Q, 2023
Diversification of the phytophagous lineages of true bugs (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) shortly after that of the flowering plants., Ye F, Kment P, Rédei D, Luo J-Y, Wang Y-H, Kuechler SM, Zhang W-W, Chen P-P, Wu H-Y, Wu Y-Z, Sun X-Y, Ding L, Wang Y-R, Xie Q, 2022
Taxonomic review of Kokeshia Miyamoto, 1960 from China, with description of ten new species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Schizopteridae)., Luo J-Y, Xie Q, 2022
A new Aenictopecheidae from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Insecta: Hemiptera)., Luo J-Y, Xie Q, 2022
A new genus and species of minute litter bugs family Schizopteridae Reuter, 1891 from China (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Dipsocoromorpha)., Luo J-Y, Gong Q-B, Xie Q, 2022
Mitochondrial genomes from two specialized subfamilies of Reduviidae (Insecta: Hemiptera) reveal novel gene rearrangements of true bugs., Ye F, Li H, Xie Q, 2021
Diversification of true water bugs revealed by transcriptome-based phylogenomics., Wang Y-H, Moreira F. F. F., Redei D, Chen P-P, Kuechler SM, Luo J-Y, Men Y, Wu H-Y, Xie Q, 2021
First record of the cimicomorphan family Plokiophilidae (Hemiptera, Heteroptera) from China, with description of a new species of Plokiophiloides., Luo J-Y, Peng Y-Q, Xie Q, 2021
Allocephalocorinae, a new subfamily of Enicocephalidae, based on Allocephalocoris zhengi gen. et sp. nov., in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Insecta: Hemiptera)., Luo J-Y, Banar P, Xie Q, 2021
When did the ancestor of true bugs become stinky? Disentangling the phylogenomics of Hemiptera–Heteroptera., Wang Y-H, Wu H-Y, Rédei D, Xie Q, Chen Y, Chen P-P, Dong Z-E, Dang K, Damgaard J, Stys P, Wu Y-Z, Luo J-Y, Sun X-Y, Hartung V, Kuechler SM, Liu Y, Liu H-X, Bu W-J, 2019
Phylogeny and the colourful history of jewel bugs (Insecta: Hemiptera: Scutelleridae)., Wu Y-Z, Rédei D, Eger J, Wang Y-H, Wu H-Y, Carapezza A, Kment P, Cai B, Sun X-Y, Guo P-L, Luo J-Y, Xie Q, 2018
The evolutionary position of Lestoniidae revealed by molecular autapomorphies in the secondary structure of rRNA besides phylogenetic reconstruction (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera)., Wu Y-Z, Yu S-S, Wang Y-H, Wu H-Y, Li X-R, Men X-Y, Zhang Y-W, Rédei D, XieQ, Bu W-J, 2016
Fossil record of stem groups employed in evaluating the chronogram of insects (Arthropoda: Hexapoda)., Wang Y-H, Engel MS, Rafael JA, Wu H-Y, Rédei D, Xie Q, Wang G, Liu X-G, Bu W-J, 2016
Molecular classification based on apomorphic amino acids (Arthropoda, Hexapoda): Integrative taxonomy in the era of phylogenomics., Wu H-Y, Wang Y-H, Xie Q, Ke Y-L, Bu W-J, 2016
Phylogenetic divergences of the true bugs (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera), with emphasis on the aquatic lineages: the last piece of the aquatic insect jigsaw originated in the Late Permian/Early Triassic., Wang Y-H, Cui Y, Rédei D, Baňař P, Xie Q, Štys P, Damgaard J, Chen P-P, Yi W-B, Wang Y, Dang K, Li C-R, Bu W-J, 2016
GPU MrBayes V3.1: MrBayes on graphics processing units for protein sequence data., Pang S, Stones RJ, Ren M-M, Liu X-G, Wang G, Xia H-J, Wu H-Y, Liu Y, Xie Q, 2015
A Unique Box in 28S rRNA is Shared by the Enigmatic Insect Order Zoraptera and Dictyoptera., Wang Y-H, Engel MS, Rafael JA, Dang K, Wu H-Y, Wang Y, Xie Q, Bu W-J, 2013
Phylogenomics of Hemiptera (Insecta: Paraneoptera) based on mitochondrial genomes., Cui Y, Xie Q, Hua J-M, Dang K, Zhou J-F, Liu X-G, Wang G, Yu X, Bu W-J, 2013
MrBayes on a Graphics Processing Unit., Zhou J-F, Liu X-G, Stones DS, Xie Q, Wang G, 2011
Phylogenetic Comparison of Local Length Plasticity of the Small Subunit of Nuclear rDNAs among All Hexapoda Orders and the Impact of Hyper Length Variation on Alignment., Xie Q, Tian X-X, Qin Y, and Bu W-J, 2009
18S rRNA Hyper-elongation and the Phylogeny of Euhemiptera (Insecta: Hemiptera)., Xie Q, Tian Y, Zheng L-Y, and Bu W-J, 2008
The Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of the 18S rRNA sequences from the main lineages of Trichophora (Insecta: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha)., Xie Q, Bu W-J, and Zheng L-Y, 2005
Different roles of host and habitat in determining the microbial communities of plant feeding true bugs., Yang Z-W, Luo J-Y, Men Y, Liu Z-H, Zheng Z-K, Wang Y-H, Xie Q, 2023
Stage correlation of symbiotic bacterial community and function in the development of litchi bugs (Hemiptera: Tessaratomidae)., Liu Z-H, Yang Z-W, Zhang J, Luo J-Y, Men Y, Wang Y-H, Xie Q, 2022
Evaluation of sample preservation approaches for better insect microbiome research according to next-generation and third-generation sequencing., Yang Z-W, Men Y, Zhang J, Liu Z-H, Luo J-Y, Wang Y-H, Li W-J, Xie Q, 2021
Identifying Differential Gene Expression in Wing Polymorphism of Adult Males of the Largest Water Strider: De novo Transcriptome Assembly for Gigantometra gigas (Hemiptera: Gerridae)., Sun X-Y, Wang Y-H, Dong Z-E, Wu H-Y, Chen P-P, Xie Q, 2018
Reconstruction of the rRNA sequences of LUCA, with bioinformatic implication of the local similarities shared by them., Men Y, Lu G, Wang Y-H, Lin J, Xie Q, 2022
New insights into the enzymatic role of EF-G in ribosome recycling., Zhang D-J, Yan K-G, Zhang Y-W, Liu G-Q, Cao X-T, Song G-T, Xie Q, Gao N, Qin Y, 2015
The Molecular Symplesiomorphies Shared by the Stem Groups of Metazoan Evolution: Can Sites as Few as 1% Have Significant Impact on Recognizing the Phylogenetic Position of Myzostomida?, Wang Y-H, Xie Q, 2014
Potential Key Bases of Ribosomal RNA to Kingdom-specific Spectra of Antibiotic Susceptibility and the Possible Archaeal Origin of Eukaryotes., Xie Q, Wang Y-H, Lin J-Z, Qin Y, Wang Y, Bu W-J, 2012
Structural diversity of eukaryotic 18S rRNA and its impact on alignment and phylogenetic reconstruction., Xie Q, Lin J-Z, Qin Y, Zhou J-F, Bu W-J, 2011