2024
Yun Li, Craig Moritz, Ian Brennan, Andreas Zwick, James Nicholls, Alicia Grealy, Adam Slipinski. Evolution across the adaptive landscape in a hyperdiverse beetle radiation. Current Biology, 2024, 34: 1–13.
ANU Media release - ‘Master of shape shifting’: how darkling beetles conquer the world
CSIRO blog post - Beetle Olympics: Darkling beetles do the decathlon
https://www.csiro.au/en/news/All/Articles/2024/August/beetle-DNA-discoveries
2021
LH Che, P Zhan, SH Deng, H Escalona, XM Wang, Yun Li, Hong Pang, N Vandenberg, Adam Ślipiński, W Tomaszewska and D Liang. New insights into the phylogeny and evolution of lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) by extensive sampling of genes and species. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2021, 156: 107045.
Yun Hsiao, Yun Li, Dong Ren, Hong Pang. Morphological phylogenetics provide new insights into the classification and evolution of fossil soldier beetles from Mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Cantharidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 2021 .
Michal Motyka, Dominik Kusy, Michal Masek, Matej Bocek, Yun Li, R. Bilkova, Josef Kapitán, Takashi Yagi, and Ladislav Bocak. Conspicuousness, phylogenetic structure, and origins of Müllerian mimicry in 4000 lycid beetles from all zoogeographic regions. Scientific reports, 2021, 11: 1–19.
Kusy Dominik, Michal Motyka, Lukas Fusek, Yun Li, Matej Bocek, Renata Bilkova, Michaela Ruskova, and Ladislav Bocak. Sexually dimorphic characters and shared aposematic patterns mislead the morphology-based classification of the Lycini (Coleoptera: Lycidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2021, 191: 902–927.
2019
Ladislav Bocak*, Yun Li, Sieghard Ellenberger. The discovery of Burmolycus compactus gen. et sp. nov. from the mid-Cretaceous of Myanmar provides the evidence for early diversification of net-winged beetles (Coleoptera, Lycidae). Cretaceous Research, 2019, 99: 149–155.
2018
Shao-Qian Zhang, Li-Heng Che, Yun Li, Dan Liang, Hong Pang, Adam Ślipiński*, Peng Zhang*. Evolutionary history of Coleoptera revealed by extensive sampling of gene and species. Nature communications, 2018, 9: 205–215.
Yun Li, Hong Pang* & Ladislav Bocak*. A review of the neotenic genus Atelius Waterhouse, 1878 from China (Coleoptera: Lycidae). Annales Zoologici, 2018, 68: 351–356.
Michal Masek, Michal Motyka, Dominik Kusy, Matej Bocek, Yun Li, and Ladislav Bocak. Molecular phylogeny, diversity and zoogeography of net-winged beetles (Coleoptera: Lycidae). Insects, 2018, 9: 154.
2017
Li-Heng Che, Shao-Qian Zhang, Yun Li, Dan Liang, Hong Pang, Adam Ślipiński, and Peng Zhang*. Genome wide survey of nuclear protein-coding markers for beetle phylogenetics and their application in resolving both deep and shallow level divergences. Molecular Ecology Resources, 2017, 17: 1342–1358.
Yun Li, Hong Pang* & Ladislav Bocak*. Molecular phylogeny of the tribe Erotini with description of a new genus from China (Coleoptera: Lycidae). Entomological Science, 2017, 20: 213–223.
Yun Li, Hong Pang* & Ladislav Bocak*. The taxonomy of neotenic net-winged beetles from China based on morphology and molecular data (Coleoptera: Lycidae). Annales Zoologici, 2017, 67: 679–687.
2016
Chen-Fu Hsu, Yun Hsiao, Yun Li & Hong Pang*. New data on the genus Melandrya from China (Coleoptera: Melandryidae). Far Eastern Entomologist, 2016, 309: 14–20.
Yun Hsiao, Yun Li, Zhenhua Liu, Hong Pang*. New species of Synchroa Newman from China (Coleoptera: Synchroidae). Zootaxa, 2016, 4093: 595–600.
Yang Liu, Guoling Chen, Qing Huang, Chenxi Jia, Geoff Carey, Paul Leader, Yun Li, Fasheng Zou, Xiaojun Yang, Urban Olsson & Per Alström*. Species delimitation of the White-tailed Rubythroat Calliope pectoralis complex (Aves, Turdidae) using an integrative taxonomic approach. Journal of Avian Biology. 2016, 47: 001–012.
2015
Yun Li, Ladislav Bocak* & Hong Pang*. Molecular phylogeny of Macrolycus (Coleoptera: Lycidae) with description of new species from China. Entomological Science, 2015, 18: 319–329.
Yun Li, Nicole Gunter, Hong Pang & Ladislav Bocak*. DNA-based species delimitation separates highly divergent populations within morphologically coherent clades of poorly dispersing beetles. Zoological Journal of Linnean Society, 2015, 175: 59–72.
Yun Li, Ladislav Bocak & Hong Pang*. Description of new species of Lyponiini from China (Coleoptera: Lycidae). Annales Zoologici, 2015, 65(1):9–19.
2012
Yun Li, Ladislav Bocak* & Hong Pang*. New species of Macrolycus Waterhouse,1878 from China and Laos, with a checklist of the genus (Coleoptera: Lycidae). Zootaxa, 2012, 3232: 44–61.
2011
Jianhuan Yang, Yun Li, Tiandu Zhang, Bin Zhang & Yingyong Wang*. Three new records of reptiles and amphibians in Guangdong province, China. Chinese Journal of Zoology, 2011, 46: 124–127.