LI Yi

Affiliation College of Food Science and Engineering

Current Position Assistant Professor
Available to supervise □Master Students
√ □Ph.D. Students
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Language □Chinese
√ □English
√ □Other language
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 Ph.D. in Microbiology, 2013, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, China
Education  M.S. in Microbiology, 2009, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, China
 B.S. in Biological Science, 2006, Nankai University, China
 Post Doctor, 2014-2018, Fujian Agriculture and Forest University, China
Academic Experience  Research Associate, 2013-2014, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, China
 Research area: Mycology taxonomy, phylogenetics and evolution
Research Interests  Research area: Utilization and conservation of macrofungi
 Research area: Fungal genomics
1. Li Y, Jiang L, Hawksworth D-L*, Wang Y-H, Lu J-J, Yao Y-J*. 2021. Typification of

Sphaeria sinensis to precisely fix the application of the name of the economically

important Chinese caterpillar fungus, Ophiocordyceps sinensis. Taxon,

https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12574.

2. Li Y#, Yan Y-J#, Tang Z-Y*, Wang K, He J-S, Yao Y-J*. 2021. Conserving the

Chinese caterpillar fungus under climate change. Biodiversity and Conservation, 30:

547–550.

3. Wang Y-H, Ban S, Wang W-J, Li Y, Wang K, Kirk P-M, Bushley K-E, Dong C-H,

Hawksworth D-L, Yao Y-J*. 2021. Pleurocordyceps gen. nov. for a clade of fungi
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previously included in Polycephalomyces based on molecular phylogeny and

morphology. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 59: 1065–1080.

4. Li Y#, Jiang L#, Wang K, Wu H-J, Yang R-H, Yan Y-J, Bushley K-E, Hawksworth

D-L, Wu Z-J*, Yao Y-J*. 2020. RIP mutated ITS genes in populations of

Ophiocordyceps sinensis and their implications for molecular systematic. IMA

Fungus, 11: 18.

5. Li Y, Wang Y-H, Wang K, Yang R-H, Yao Y-J*. 2019. Response to "The multiple
genotypes of Ophiocordyceps sinensis and the ITS pseudogene hypothesis".
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 139: 106522.

6. Li Y, Yang R-H, Jiang L, Hu X-D, Wu Z-J*, Yao Y-J*. 2017. rRNA pseudogenes in
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 filamentous ascomycetes as revealed by genome data. G3: Genes, Genomes,

Genetics 7: 2695–2703.

7. Jiang L, Li Y, Wang W-J, Imoulan A, YaoY-J*. 2017. Total phenolic content and

antioxidant activity of mycelial extracts from the medicinal fungus Paecilomyces

hepiali (Ascomycetes). International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms 19: 35–44.

8. Yan Y-J#, Li Y#, Wang W-J, He J-S, Yang R-H, Wu H-J, Wang X-L, Jiao L, Tang

Z-Y*, Yao Y-J*. 2017. Range shifts in response to climate change of Ophiocordyceps

sinensis, a fungus endemic to the Tibetan Plateau. Biological Conservation 206:

143–150.

9. Li Y, Hsiang T, Yang R-H, Hu X-D, Wang K, Wang W-J. Wang X-L, Jiao L, Yao

Y-J*. 2016. Comparison of different sequencing and assembly strategies for a

repeat-rich fungal genome, Ophiocordyceps sinensis. Journal of Microbiological

Methods 128: 1–6.

10. Imoulan A, Li Y, Wang W-J, El Meziane A, Yao Y-J*. 2016. New record of

Beauveria pseudobassiana from Morocco. Mycotaxon 131: 913–923.

11. Imoulan A, Wu H-J, Lu W-L, Li Y, Li B-B, Yang R-H, Wang W-J, Wang X-L, Kirk

P-M, Yao Y-J*. 2016. Beauveria medogensis sp. nov., a new fungus of the

entomopathogenic genus from China. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 139:

74–81.

12. Li Y, Hu X-D, Yang R-H, Hsiang T, Wang K, Liang D-Q, Liang F, Cao D-M, Zhou

F, Wen G, Yao Y-J*. 2015. Complete mitochondrial genome of the medicinal fungus

Ophiocordyceps sinensis. Scientific Reports 5: 13892.

13. Sitotaw R, Li Y, Wei T-Z, Abate D, Yao Y-J*. 2015. Two new records of Agaricus

spp. from Ethiopia. Mycotaxon 130: 1171–1183.

14. Wang W-J, Li Y, Wang X-L, Kirk P-M, Yao Y-J*. 2015. Neotypification of

Paecilomyces hepiali (Hypocreales). Taxon 64:147–150.

15. Bushley K-E, Li Y, Wang W-J, Wang X-L, Jiao L, Spatafora J-W, Yao Y-J*. 2013.

Isolation of the MAT1-1 mating type idiomorph and evidence for selfing in the

Chinese medicinal fungus Ophiocordyceps sinensis. Fungal Biology 117: 599–610.

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 16. Li Y, Jiao L, Yao Y-J*. 2013. Non-concerted ITS evolution in fungi, as revealed

from the important medicinal fungus Ophiocordyceps sinensis. Molecular

Phylogenetics and Evolution 68: 373–379.

17. Wang W-J#, Wang X-L#, Li Y, Xiao S-R, Kepler R-M, Yao Y-J*. 2012. Molecular

and morphological studies of Paecilomyces sinensis revealing a new clade in

clavicipitaceous fungi and its new systematic position. Systematics and Biodiversity

10: 221–232.

18. Li Y, Wang X-L, Jiao L, Jiang Y, Li H, Jiang S-P, NgarongLhosumtseiring, Fu S-Z,

Dong C-H, Zhan Y, Yao Y-J*. 2011. A survey of the geographic distribution of

Ophiocordyceps sinensis. Journal of Microbiology 49: 913–919.

Email liyi062@yzu.edu.cn
Website http://lyxy.yzu.edu.cn/info/1131/4291.htm

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