学习经历：

2013.09 – 2017.06, 中国科学院大学/西双版纳热带植物园, 博士

2010.09 – 2013.06, 云南农业大学/中国科学院西双版纳热带植物园, 硕士

2006.09 – 2010.06, 江西农业大学, 大学本科

工作经历：

2024.05 –至今, 中国科学院西双版纳热带植物园, 副研究员

2017.07 – 2024.05, 中国科学院西双版纳热带植物园, 助理研究员

承担科研项目情况：

（1） 花香挥发物对冬青属(Ilex)同域近缘种小尺度种群遗传结构的影响, 云南省基础研究计划面上项目, 2020/06 – 2023/05, 主持。

（2）连续分布广布种的种群遗传分化驱动机制—以小果冬青(Ilex micrococca)为例, 国家自然科学基金青年科学基金项目, 2020/01 – 2022/12, 主持。

（3）冬青属(Ilex)传粉综合征对同域物种渐渗杂交的影响, 中国科学院西部之光B类项目, 2019/01 – 2021/12, 主持。

代表性论文：

（1）Chen L-Q, Li X, Yao X, Li D-Z, Barrett C, dePamphilis CW, Yu W-B. 2024. Variations and reduction of plastome are associated with the evolution of parasitism in Convolvulaceae. Plant Molecular Biology, 114:40.

（2）Chen H-Y, Zhang Z-R, Yao X, Ya J-D, Jin X-H, Wang L, Lu L, Li D-Z, Yang J-B, Yu W-B. 2024. Plastid phylogenomics provides new insights into the systematics, diversification, and biogeography of Cymbidium (Orchidaceae). Plant Diversity, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2024.03.001. 

（3）Song Y, Xia S-W, Tan Y-H, Yu W-B, Yao X^#, Xing Y-W^#, Corlett RT^#. 2023. Phylogeny and biogeography of the Cryptocaryeae (Lauraceae). Taxon, 72(6):1244-1261. (co-corresponding author)

（4）Pan B, Yao X, Corlett RT, Yu WB. 2023. Pueraria omeiensis (Fabaceae), a new species from Southwest China. Taiwania, 68(1):31-38.

（5）Yao X, Lu Z, Song Y, Hu X, Corlett RT. 2022. A chromosome-scale genome assembly for the holly, Ilex polyneura, provides insights into genomic adaptations to elevation in Southwest China. Horticulture Research, 9:uhab049.

（6）Yao X, Zhang F, Corlett RT. 2022. Utilization of the hollies (Ilex L. spp.): a review. Forests, 13(1):94.

（7）Yao X, Song Y, Yang JB, Tan YH, Corlett RT. 2021. Phylogeny and biogeography of the hollies (Ilex L., Aquifoliaceae). Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 59(1):73-82.

（8）Armani M, Goodale UM, Charles-Dominique T, Barton KE, Yao X, Tomlinson KW. 2020. Structural defence is coupled with the leaf economic spectrum across saplings of spiny species. Oikos, 129(5):740-762.

（9）Yao X, Tan YH, Yang JB, Wang Y, Corlett RT, Manen JF. 2019. Exceptionally high rates of positive selection on the rbcL gene in the genus Ilex (Aquifoliaceae). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 19:192.

（10）Song Y. Yu WB, Tan Y, Liu B, Yao X, Jin J, Padmanaba M, Yang JB, Corlett RT. 2017. Evolutionary comparisons of the chloroplast genome in Lauraceae and insights into loss events in the Magnoliids. Genome Biology and Evolution, 9(9):2354-2364.

（11）Yao X, Tan YH, Liu YY, Song Y, Yang JB, Corlett RT. 2016. Chloroplast genome structure in Ilex (Aquifoliaceae). Scientific Reports, 6: 28559.

（12）Yao X, Liu YY, Tan YH, Song Y, Corlett RT. 2016. The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Helwingia himalaica (Helwingiaceae, Aquifoliales) and a chloroplast phylogenomic analysis of the Campanulidae. PeerJ, 4: e2734.