1) Wen-Dong Xian?, Nimaichand Salam?, Meng-Meng Li?, En-Min Zhou, Yi-Rui Yin, Ze-Tao Liu, Yu-Zhen Ming, Xiao-Tong Zhang, Geng Wu, Lan Liu, Min Xiao, Hong-Chen Jiang, Wen-Jun Li*. Network-directed efficient isolation of previously uncultivated Chloroflexi and related bacteria in hot spring microbial mats. NPJ Biofilms Microbiomes. 2020 Apr 29;6(1):20. doi: 10.1038/s41522-020-0131-4.
2) Zulpiya Musa?, Jinbiao Ma?, Dilfuza Egamberdieva, Osama Abdalla Abdelshafy Mohamad?, Gulsumay Abaydulla, Yong-Hong Liu, Wen-Jun Li* & Li Li*. Diversity and antimicrobial potential of cultivable endophytic actinobacteria associated with medicinal plant Thymus roseus. Front Microbiol, 2020, Mar 12. 11:191. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00191.
3) Nimaichand Salam?, Jian-Yu Jiao?, Xiao-Tong Zhang?, Wen-Jun Li*. Update in the classification of higher ranks in the phylum Actinobacteria. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2020 Feb;70(2):1331-1355. doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.003920.
4) Abdelshafy Mohamad OA*, Ma J-B, Liu Y-H, Zhang D, Hua S, Bhute S, Hedlund BP, Li W-J* and Li L*. Beneficial Endophytic Bacterial Populations Associated With Medicinal Plant Thymus vulgaris Alleviate Salt Stress and Confer Resistance to Fusarium oxysporum. Front. Plant Sci. 2020, 11:47. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00047
5) Dai-Di Chen, Ye Tian, Jian-Yu Jiao, Xiao-Tong Zhang, Yong-Guang Zhang, Zhou-Yan Dong, Meng-Jie Xiong, Min Xiao, Wen-Sheng Shu*, Wen-Jun Li*. Comparative genomics analysis of Nitriliruptoria reveals the genomic differences and salt adaptation strategies. Extremophiles. 2020. 24(2), 249-264. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00792-019-01150-3
6) Zhou-Yan Dong?; Manik Prabhu Narsing Rao?; Hong-Fei Wang?; Bao-Zhu Fang; Yong-Hong Liu; Li Li; Min Xiao* and Wen-Jun Li*; Transcriptomic analysis of two endophytes involved in enhancing salt stress ability of Arabidopsis thaliana, Science of the Total Environment. 2019, 686:107-117.
7) Zheng-Shuang Hua?; Yu-Lin Wang?; Paul N Evans?; Yan-Ni Qu; Kian Mau Goh; Yang-Zhi Rao; Yan-Ling Qi; Yu-Xian Li; Min-Jun Huang; Jian-Yu Jiao; Ya-Ting Chen; Yan-Ping Mao; Wen-Sheng Shu; Wael Hozzein; Brian P. Hedlund; Gene W Tyson*; Tong Zhang*; Wen-Jun Li*; Insights into the ecological roles and evolution of methyl-coenzyme M reductase containing hot spring Archaea. Nature Communications, 2019, 10(1):4574.
8) Qing Liu; Zhiyong Liu; Changli Sun; Mingwei Shao; Junying Ma; Xiaoyi Wei; Tianyu Zhang;* Wenjun Li;* Jianhua Ju*; Discovery and Biosynthesis of Atrovimycin, an Antitubercular and Antifungal Cyclodepsipeptide Featuring Ortho-dihydroxylated Cinnamic Acyl Chain, Organic Letters, 2019, 21(8):2634-2638.
9) Lei Dong; Yi Shen; Xian-Feng Hou; Wen-Jun Li*; and Gong-Li Tang*; Discovery of Druggability-Improved Analogues by Investigation of the LL-D49194 1 Biosynthetic Pathway, Org. Lett., 2019, 21(7): 2322–2325.
10) Zheng-Shuang Hua#; Yan-Ni Qu#; Qiyun Zhu; En-Min Zhou; Yan-Ling Qi; Yi-Rui Yin; Yang-Zhi Rao; Ye Tian; Yu-Xian Li; Lan Liu; Cindy J. Castelle; Brian P. Hedlund;Wen-Sheng Shu; Rob Knight; Wen-Jun Li*; Genomic inference of the metabolism and evolution of the archaeal phylum Aigarchaeota, Nature Communications, 2018, 9:2832.