国家自然科学基金重点项目：南中国海纤毛虫原生动物的区系与多样性研究（2015-2019）

国家自然科学基金面上项目：黄海沿岸的核残亚纲纤毛虫原生动物研究（2013-2016）

国家自然科学基金国际合作项目：纤毛虫多样性研究的合作网络建立（2012-2016）

国家自然科学基金面上项目：黄海近岸厌氧环境纤毛虫的生物多样性研究（2016-2019）

国家自然科学基金面上项目:南中国海叶咽纲和前口纲纤毛虫原生动物的研究（2015-2017）

国家自然科学基金优秀青年基金项目：利用纤毛虫模式动物四膜虫对表观遗传学的研究（2016-2018）

国家自然科学基金面上项目：以纤毛虫原生动物-嗜热四膜虫为模式：DNA复制延伸相关的表观遗传学研究（2015-2017）

国家自然科学基金青年项目：海洋纤毛虫具沟急游虫的基因组重组过程与进化探讨（2015-2017）

山东省自然科学基金青年项目：表观遗传信息对复制延伸过程及脆性位点表达的调控研究（2015-2017）

Gao, S., Liu, Y. (2012). Intercepting noncoding messages between germline and soma. Genes & development, 26(16), 1774-1779.

Gao, S., Xiong, J., Zhang, C., Berquist, B. R., Yang, R., Zhao, M., Molascon, A. J., Kwiatkowski, S. Y., Yuan, D., Qin, Z., Wen, J., Kapler, G. M., Andrews, P. C., Miao, W., Liu, Y. (2013). Impaired replication elongation in Tetrahymena mutants deficient in histone H3 Lys 27 monomethylation. Genes & Development, 27, 1662-1679.

Huang, J., Chen, Z., Song, W.*,Berger, H. (2014). Three-gene based phylogeny of the Urostyloidea (Protista, Ciliophora, Hypotricha), with notes on classification of some core taxa. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 70, 337-347.

Gao, F., Katz, L. A., Song, W.* (2014). Genome structure drives patterns of gene family evolution in ciliates, a case study using Chilodonella uncinata (Protista, Ciliophora, Phyllopharyngea). Evolution, 68, 2287-2295.

Fan, Y., Pan, Y., Huang, J., Lin, X., Hu, X.*, Warren, A. (2014). Molecular phylogeny and taxonomy of two novel brackish water hypotrich ciliates, with the establishment of a new genus, Antiokeronopsis gen. n.(Ciliophora, Hypotrichia). Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 61, 449-462.

Gao, S., Lu, L., Bai, Y., Zhang, P., Song, W.,Duan, C. (2014). Structural and functional analysis of amphioxus HIFα reveals ancient features of the HIFα family. The FASEB Journal, 28, 1880-1890.

Gao F., Gao S.*,Wang P., Katz L. A., Song W. (2014) Phylogenetic analyses of cyclidiids (Protista, Ciliophora, Scuticociliatia) based on multiple genes suggest their close relationship with thigmotrichids. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 75, 219-226.

Gao F., Katz L. A. (2014) Phylogenomic analyses support the bifurcation of ciliates into two major clades that differ in properties of nuclear division. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 70, 240-243.

Chen, X., Gao, F., Al-Farraj, S. A., Al-Rasheid, K. A., Xu, K, Song, W.* (2015). Morphology and morphogenesis of a novel mangrove ciliate, Sterkiella subtropica sp. nov.(Protozoa, Ciliophora, Hypotrichia), with phylogenetic analyses based on small-subunit rDNA sequence data. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 65, 2292-2303.

Liu, W., Yi, Z., Lin, X., Li, J., Al-Farraj, S. A., Al-Rasheid, K. A., Song, W.* (2015). Morphology and molecular phylogeny of three new oligotrich ciliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora) from the South China Sea. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 174, 653-665.

Liu, W., Yi, Z., Xu, D., Clamp, J. C., Li, J., Lin, X., Song, W.* (2015). Two new genera of planktonic ciliates and insights into the evolution of the family Strombidiidae (Protista, Ciliophora, Oligotrichia). Plos One DOI:10.1371 /journal.pone.0131726.

Pan, H., Hu, J., Jiang, J., Wang, L., Hu, X.* (2015). Morphology and Phylogeny of Three Pleuronema Species (Ciliophora, Scuticociliatia) from Hangzhou Bay, China, with Description of Two New Species, P. binucleatum n. sp. and P. parawiackowskii n. sp. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology,63, 287-298.

Luo, X., Gao, F., Al-Rasheid, K. A., Warren, A., Hu, X.*, Song, W. (2015). Redefinition of the hypotrichous ciliate Uncinata, with descriptions of the morphology and phylogeny of three urostylids (Protista, Ciliophora). Systematics and Biodiversity, 13, 455-471.

Qu, Z., Pan, H., Hu, X.*, Li, J., Al-Farraj, S. A., Al-Rasheid, K. A., Yi, Z. (2015). Morphology and Molecular Phylogeny of Three Cyrtophorid Ciliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora) from China, including Two New Species, Chilodonella parauncinata sp. n. and Chlamydonella irregularis sp. n. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 62, 267-279.

Song, W., Zhao, X., Liu, W., Hu, X.*, Al-Farraj, S. A., Al-Rasheid, K. A., Song, W., Warren, A. (2015). Biodiversity of oligotrich ciliates in the South China Sea: description of three new Strombidium species (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Oligotrichia) with phylogenetic analyses. Systematics and Biodiversity, 13, 608-623.

Gao F., Roy S. W., Katz L. A. (2015) Analyses of alternatively processed genes in ciliates provide insights into the origins of scrambled genomes and may provide a mechanism for speciation. mBio 6:e01998-14.

Huang, J., Luo, X., Bourland, W. A., Gao, F.*, Gao, S.*(2016). Multigene-based phylogeny of the ciliate families Amphisiellidae and Trachelostylidae (Protozoa: Cilioph-ora: Hypotrichia). Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 101, 101-110.

Gao, F., Warren A., Zhang Q., Gong J., Miao M., Sun P., Xu D., Huang J., Yi Z., Song W.* (2016) The all-data-based evolutionary hypothesis of ciliated protists with a revised classification of the phylum Ciliophora (Eukaryota, Alveolata). Scientific Reports. 6, doi: 10.1038/ srep24874.