2025

Chen J^#, Liu C^#, Li W^#, Clark AG, Wang Z, Lu J^* (2025) Pervasive sex-dependent effects in the genetic architecture of starvation resistance in Drosophila melanogaster. Science Advances 11(39): eadt3560. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adt3560. PDF

Chen J, Zhang L, Lu J^* (2025) Frontiers in population genomics: development, technological innovation, and interdisciplinary integration. Scientia Sinica Vitae . DOI: 10.1360/SSV-2024-0311. PDF

Sun Y^#, Duan Y^#, Gao P, Liu C, Jin K, Dou S, Tang W, Zhang H, Lu J^* (2025) Upstream open reading frames buffer translational variability during Drosophila evolution and development. eLife 14: RP104074. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.104074.1. PDF

Sun Y^#, Shui K^#, Li Q, Liu C, Jin W, Ni JQ, Lu J^*, Zhang L^* (2025) Upstream open reading frames dynamically modulate CLOCK protein translation to regulate circadian rhythms and sleep. PLoS Biology 23(5): e3003173. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3003173. PDF

2024

Chen J^#, Liu C^#, Li W^#, Zhang W, Wang Y, CLARK AG^*, Lu J^* (2024) From sub-Saharan Africa to China: Evolutionary history and adaptation of Drosophila melanogaster revealed by population genomics. Science Advances 10(16): eadh3425. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adh3425. PDF

Wu X^#, Xu M^#, Yang JR^*, Lu J^* (2024) Genome-wide impact of codon usage bias on translation optimization in Drosophila melanogaster. Nature Communications 15(1): 8329. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-52660-4. PDF

2020

Luo S^#, Zhang H^#, Duan Y^#, Yao X, Clark AG^*, Lu J^* (2020) The evolutionary arms race between transposable elements and piRNAs in Drosophila melanogaster. BMC Evolutionary Biology 20: 14. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-020-1580-3. PDF

2018

Zhang H^#, Dou S^#, He F, Luo J, Wei L, Lu J^* (2018) Genome-wide maps of ribosomal occupancy provide insights into adaptive evolution and regulatory roles of uORFs during Drosophila development. PLoS Biology 16(7): e2003903. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2003903. PDF