Xiaoran Zhang

The paper investigates the evolutionary mechanisms of wtf meiotic driver genes in S. pombe using long-read genome assemblies and identifies gene conversion and recombination events contributing to their diversity and persistence.

This paper improves the auxin-inducible degron system in fission yeast by optimizing the degron, inducer, and F-box protein, achieving inducible lethality for essential genes.

This paper introduces a cloning-free CRISPR/Cas9 method for genome editing in fission yeast using gap repair to assemble plasmids and sgRNA inserts.