Publications (selected)

Junhui Peng, Nicolas Svetec, Henrik Molina, Li Zhao: The Origin and Evolution of Sex Peptide and Sex Peptide Receptor Interactions. Mol Biol Evol 2024; 41(4). Link PDF

Junhui Peng, Li Zhao: The origin and structural evolution of de novo genes in Drosophila. Nat Commun 2024; 15, 810. Link PDF

Junhui Peng, Nicolas Svetec, Li Zhao, Intermolecular interactions drive protein adaptive and co-adaptive evolution at both species and population levels, Mol Biol Evol 2022; 39 (1). Link PDF

Sylvia M Durkin, Mahul Chakraborty, Antoine Abrieux, Kyle M Lewald, Alice Gadau, Nicolas Svetec, Junhui Peng, Miriam Kopyto, Christopher B Langer, Joanna C Chiu, J J Emerson, Li Zhao, Behavioral and Genomic Sensory Adaptations Underlying the Pest Activity of Drosophila suzukii, Mol Biol Evol 2021; 38 (6). Link PDF

Junhui Peng, Chuang Yuan, Xinfan Hua and Zhiyong Zhang: Molecular mechanism of histone variant H2A. B on stability and assembly of nucleosome and chromatin structures. Epigenetics Chromatin 2020; 13(1). Link PDF

Junhui Peng, Chuang Yuan, Rongsheng Ma, Zhiyong Zhang, Backmapping from Multiresolution Coarse-Grained Models to Atomic Structures of Large Biomolecules by Restrained Molecular Dynamics Simulations using Bayesian Inference, J Chem Theor Comp 2019; 15(5). Link PDF

Junhui Peng, Wei Wang, Yeqing Yu, Hanlin Gu and Xuhui Huang, Clustering algorithms to Analyze Molecular Dynamics Simulation Trajectories for Complex Chemical and Biological Systems, Chinese J Chem Phys 2018; 31(4). Link PDF

Ling Xu, Lijun Wang, Junhui Peng, Fudong Li, Lijie Wu, Beibei Zhang, Mengqi Lv, Jiahai Zhang, Qingguo Gong, Rongguang Zhang, Xiaobing Zuo, Zhiyong Zhang, Jihui Wu, Yajun Tang, Yunyu Shi, Insights into the Structure of Dimeric RNA Helicase CsdA and Indispensable Role of Its C-Terminal Regions, Structure 2017; 25 (12). Link PDF