Name: Kou Qi

Title: Associate Professor

Subject: Marine Biology

Tel/Fax: +86-0532-82898773

E-mail: kouqi@qdio.ac.cn

Address: Department of Marine Organism Taxonomy and Phylogeny, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 7 Nanhai Road, Qingdao, Shandong, China

Resume:

2016 –, Assistant Researcher, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2013-2016, Assistant Researcher, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Education:

Ph.D., 2013, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

B.S., 2008, Xi’an Jiaotong University

Professional Memberships:

Member, China Crustacean Society

Member, China Marine Benthos Society

Research Interests:

Marine biodiversity

Marine invertebrate phylogenetics and evolution

Marine molecular ecology

Selected Publications:

1. Kou Qi, Xu Peng, Poore C. B. Gary, Li Xinzheng, Wang Chunsheng. 2020. A New Species of the Deep-sea Sponge-associated Genus Eiconaxius (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidae), with New Insights into the Distribution, Speciation and Mitogenomic Phylogeny of Axiidean Shrimps. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7: 469.

2. Kou Qi, Meland Kenneth, Li Xinzheng, He Lisheng, Wang Yong. 2020. “Unicorn from Hades”, a new genus of Mysidae (Malacostraca: Mysida) from the Mariana Trench, with a systematic analysis of the deep-sea mysids. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 143: 106666.

3. Kou Qi, Meland Kenneth, Li Xinzheng, He Lisheng, Wang Yong. 2019. Deepest record of Eucopia sculpticauda (Crustacea: Lophogastrida: Eucopiidae) and the order, with new insights into the distribution and genetic diversity of the species. Bulletin of Marine Science, 95: 327–335.

4. Kou Qi, Gong Lin, Li Xinzheng. 2018. A new species of the deep-sea spongicolid genus Spongicoloides (Crustacea, Decapoda, Stenopodidea) and a new species of the glass sponge genus Corbitella (Hexactinellida, Lyssacinosida, Euplectellidae) from a seamount near the Mariana Trench, with a novel commensal relationship between the two genera. Deep-sea Research Part I, 135: 88–107.

5. Kou Qi, Chen Jun, Li Xinzheng, He Lisheng, Wang Yong. 2017. A new species of the giant deep-sea isopod genus Bathynomus A. Milne Edwards, 1879 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cirolanidae) from Hainan Island, South China Sea. Integrative Zoology, 12: 283–291.

6. Kou Qi, Li Xinzheng, Gan Zhibin. 2016. Re-evaluation of the systematic status of two deep-water recorded Periclimenes species (Decapoda: Palaemonidae), with a preliminary analysis on the evolution of certain echinoid-associated palaemonid shrimps and related taxa. Invertebrate Systematics, 30: 421–430.

7. Shen Yanjun, Kou Qi, Chen Weitao, He Shunping, Yang Mei, Li Xinzheng, Gan Xiaoni. 2016. Comparative population structures of two dominant species, Shinkaia crosnieri (Munidopsidae: Shinkaia) and Bathymodiolus platifrons (Mytilidae: Bathymodiolus), inhabiting both deep-sea vents and cold seep inferred from mitochondrial multi-genes. Ecology and Evolution, 6: 3571–3582.

8. Kou Qi, Li Xinzheng, Chan Tin-Yam, Chu Ka Hou. 2015. Divergent evolutionary pathways and host shifts among the commensal pontoniine shrimps: a preliminary analysis based on selected Indo-Pacific species. Organism diversity and evolution, 15: 369–377.

9. Kou Qi, Li Xinzheng, Chan Tin-Yam, Chu Ka Hou, Gan Zhibin. 2013. Molecular phylogeny of the superfamily Palaemonoidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA reveals discrepancies with the current classification. Invertebrate Systematics, 27: 502–514.

10. Kou Qi, Li Xinzheng, Chan Tin-Yam, Chu Ka Hou, Huang Hui, Gan Zhibin. 2013. Phylogenetic relationships among genera of the Periclimenes complex (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 68: 14–22.