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CHIH-CHI LEE

Doctor of Agricultural Science

Division of Applied Biosciences

Kyoto University

Japan

What am I doing

Using population genomics to reveal ants adaptive evolution

What genetic mechanisms assist local adaptation in invasion species?

Red Imported Fire Ant 

Solenopsis invicta

Yellow Crazy Ant

Anoploepis gracilipes

Model organisms
Education and Research Experience

October 2017 - January 2021

 

Doctor or Agricultural Science

Division of Applied Bioscience

Graduate school of Agriculture

Kyoto University, Japan

  • Complete the yellow crazy ant mitochondrial genome assembly

  • Analysis global invasion history of the yellow crazy ant

  • Investigate the genome region under selection

  • Explore the interaction between the yellow crazy and Wolbachia

  • Discover novel viruses in yellow crazy ants

January 2013 - July 2017

 

Research assistant

Biodiversity Research Center

Academia Sinica, Taiwan

  • Analysis of active transposable elements in the red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta)

  • Exploring the genetic paradox during invasions of the red important fire ant (Solenopsis invicta)

  • Tropical fire ant (Solenopsis geminata) genome assembly with PacBio data

  • The complete mitochondrial genome of Histiostoma blomquisti (Acari: Histiostomatidae)

September 2009 - June 2011

 

Master of Science

Department of Entomology

National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Master thesis

(Adviser: Dr. Cheng-Jen Shih and Dr. John Wang)

“The role of propagule pressure and genetic diversity in successful invasion of the red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta) in Taiwan”

September 2005 - June 2009

 

Bachelor of Science

Department of Entomology

National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Independent study

(Adviser: Yu-The Kirk Lin)

“How plant canopy influenced swamp invertebrate assemblage in Guandu, Taiwan”   

First Author Publications

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2020

Complete genome sequences of two novel dicistroviruses detected in the yellow crazy ant, Anoplolepis gracilipes

Archives of Virology

(Accepted)

IF: 2.230

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2018

The complete mitochondrial genome of yellow crazy ant, Anoplolepis gracilipes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).

Mitochondrial DNA Part B. 2: 622-623

IF: 0.885

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2018

Rapid Expansion of a highly genome-expressed Mariner element acquired by horizontal transfer in the fire ant genome.

Genome Biology and Evolution. 10 (12): 3262-3278

IF: 3.462

2016

The complete mitochondrial genome of Histiostoma blomquisti (Acari: Histiostomatidae)

Mitochondrial DNA Part B. 1:671 - 673

IF: 0.885

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2020

Ongoing coevolution of Wolbachia and a widespread invasive ant. Anoplolepis gracilipes

Microorganisms

(Accepted)

IF: 4.152

Collaborate publications

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2020

Evidence for common horizontal transmission of Wolbachia among ants and ant crickets: kleptoparasitism added to the list

Microorganisms.

8:805

IF: 4.152

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2019

The fire ant social supergene is characterized by extensive gene and transposable element copy number variation

Molecular Ecology.

29:105-120

IF: 5.163

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2016

Evolution of long centromeres in fire ants.

BMC Evolutionary Biology. 16:189.

IF: 3.058

In Preparation

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New viruses in yellow crazy ants

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Population genomics of the yellow crazy ant

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Evidence of prehistorical movement of the pig from ancient DNA  

Awards

Best Post Award

Best Post Award

2016

Adaptive evolution in invasive species: looking for the selective sweep(s) in the red imported fire ant genome

             International Symposium on Evolutionary Genomics and Bioinformatics

Taiwan

 

2010

Not only once: putatively two independent invasions of the red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta) in Taoyuan, Taiwan.

Taiwan Entomology Society conference.

 

Taiwan

 

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