Daohan Jiang

This study examines how developmental constraints and selection for elongation shape neck morphology in birds and other archosaurs, showing that extreme neck elongation in crown birds results from increases in both cervical number and length.

The paper shows that phenotypic complexity determines whether convergent evolution leads to molecular convergence, using simulations of regulatory gene expression.

The paper develops a mathematical model to predict isoform abundance distributions across species and genes, finding that factors beyond selection, like population size and cis-acting loci, significantly influence evolutionary outcomes.

The paper introduces a model linking developmental constraints to the evolution of repeated structures, showing how structural features of gene regulatory networks influence divergence and fitness under selection.