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Research Interest:
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Prof. Yin has been an academian of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) since 1995 and has researched systematics of locusts and grasshoppers of the Orthoptera insect superfamily Acridoidea.
Over 30 years of research, Prof. Yin has published papers on 37 new locust genera and 103 new species. He has also established a new phylogenetic relationship system of the Orthoptera superfamily Acridoidea. Prof. Yin's significant theories on locusts and grasshoppers include their adaptation to plateau environment and climate, evolutionary pathways, and plateau life induced loss of wings. Prof. Yin indicated that the strong winds present in the plateau environment had disabled the insect’s flight capability and therefore resulted in their loss of wings. Wings are one of the most important parts of the vocal organ, and thus the insect’s loss of wings resulted in the failure of its vocal organ and hearing capability (auditory organ). The plateau species suffering from these bodily deficiencies are the most evolutionary species are also endemic to the Qinhai-Tibet plateau.
Professor Yin is a Co-PI of the research project "High-level phylogeny of Hexapoda" funded by the National Science Foundation of China.
Yin is currently interested in molecular phylogenetic analyses of the Orthoptera superfamily Acridoidea.
Prof. Yin is currently interested in the molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Orthoptera superfamily Acridoidea.
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Recent Research Projects:
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(1)
High-level phylogeny of Hexapoda (Co-PI), 2002-2005
Funded by: National Natural Science Foundation of China
Amount: RMB 1400,000 |
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Systematics of locusts and grasshoppers in Taiwan (PI), 2001-2002
Funded by: Natural Science Museum, Taiwan
Amount: Taiwan $670,000 |
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Study of the intensive production of the high quality fish food, Chinese Artemia (the brine shrimp), for sea farming (PI), 2000-2003
Funded by: China National 863 Project
Amount: RMB 100,000 |
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Fauna of China: Orthoptera: Gomphoceridae and Acrididae (PI), 1998-2003
Funded by: National Natural Science Foundation of China
Amount: RMB 70,000 |
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Selected Publications:
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Yin, Xiang-Chu & Wen-Qiang Wang 2005 A key to known species of Compsorhipis Saussure (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Oedipodidae) from China and adjacent ares, with the description of a new species ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 116(1): 23-28 (SCI)
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Zhou, Ke-Xin, Mu-Qi Xu & Xiang-Chu Yin 2004 Morphological characterization of sexual Artemia (Branchiopoda) from China CRUSTACEANA 76 (3): 1331-1346 (SCI)
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Zhou, K.X., M.Q. Xu, and X.C. Yin 2004 Reproductive and adult morphological characters of Artemia from Lagkor Co, Tibet of China ACTA ZOOLOGICA SINICA 50(3): 364-369
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Wang, W.Q., X.J. Li and X.C. Yin 2004 Taxonomic Study on Sinopodisma Chang from China (Orthoptera:Acridoidea: Catantopidae) JOURNAL OF HEBEI UNIVERSITY(NATURAL SCIENCE EDITION) 24(1): 99-106
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Yin, H., X.J. Li, W.Q. Wang & X.C. Yin 2004 Inferences about Acridoidea phylogenetic relationships from small subunit nuclear ribosomal DNA sequence ACTA ENTOMOLOGICA SINICA 47(6): 809-814
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Yin H,Zhang DC,Bi ZL,Yin Z,Liu Y,Yin XC 2003 Molecular phylogeny of some species of the Acridoidea based on 16S rDNA ACTA GENETICA SINICA 30(8): 766-772
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