生物如何演化去佔據地球上各式各樣的生態區位是相當有趣的問題。為了瞭解這個問題，我們對鳥類（和其他動物）的親緣地理學，適應性演化學，基因體學和行為生態學進行研究。因為鳥類演化出了一系列特殊的形態和行為特徵，所以我們選擇它們為研究對象。同時，誰能不對這些一窗之隔的繽紛飛羽多看一眼。

期刊論文

1. Lu, C.-W., Huang, S.-T., Cheng, S.-J., Lin, C.-T., Hsu, Y.-C., Yao, C.-T., Dong, F, Hung, C.-M.*, Kuo, H.-C.*, 2023, “Genomic architecture underlying morphological and physiological adaptation to high elevation in a songbird.”, MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, 32, 2234-2251. (SCIE) (IF: 6.622; SCI ranking: 20.9%,10.9%,13.5%)
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3. Ku, Y.-C., Chen, Y.-C., Hung, C.-M., & Ng, C.- S.*, 2023, “The genetic variation of a mitochondrial and two behaviour‐related genes in invasive African Sacred Ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus) populations in Taiwan.”, IBIS, 165, 647-662. (SCIE) (IF: 2.351; SCI ranking: 12.9%)
4. Guo, J.-C., Tsai, J.-S., Wang, J.-S., Lin, Y.-W., Shaner, P.-J.* & Hung, C.-M.*, 2022, “The role of a synanthropic bird in the nest niche expansion of a secondary cavity nester to man-made structures.”, Ecology & Evolution, 12, e9188. (SCIE) (IF: 3.167; SCI ranking: 43.1%,51.9%)
5. Hung, C.-M. †, Tsao, S.-H. †, Chiang, P.-L., Wu, S.-P., Tuanmu M.-N.* & Juang, J.-Y.*, 2022, “Functional connections between bird eggshell stiffness and nest characteristics through risk of egg collision in nests.”, ECOLOGY LETTERS, 25, 1421-1431, († equal contributor. (SCIE) (IF: 11.274; SCI ranking: 3.4%)
6. Lu, C.-W., Yao, C.-T., & Hung, C.-M.*, 2022, “Domestication obscures genomic estimates of population history”, MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, 31, 752-766. (SCIE) (IF: 6.622; SCI ranking: 20.9%,10.9%,13.5%)
7. Fang, Y.-T., Yao, C.-T., Hsu, Y.-C. & Hung, C.-M.*, 2022, “Elevational plumage divergence in the Rufous-capped Babbler on a mountainous island”, IBIS, 164, 151-167. (SCIE) (IF: 2.351; SCI ranking: 12.9%)
8. Wang, J.-S., Tuanmu, M.-N., Hung, C.-M.*, 2021, “Effects of artificial light at night on the nest-site selection, reproductive success and behavior of a synanthropic bird”, ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION, 288, 117805. (SCIE) (IF: 9.988; SCI ranking: 10%)
9. Dong, F., Kuo, H.-C., Chen, G.-L., Wu, F., Shan, P.-F., Wang, J., Chen, D., Lei, F.-M., Hung, C.-M.*, Liu, Y.*, Yang, X.-J.*, 2021, “Population genomic, climatic and anthropogenic evidence suggest the role of human forces in endangerment of green peafowl (Pavo muticus)”, PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 288, 20210073. (SCIE) (IF: 5.531; SCI ranking: 20.2%,17.2%,17.3%)
10. Dong, F., Hung, C.-M., Li, S.H., Yang X.-J., 2021, “Potential Himalayan community turnover through the Late Pleistocene”, CLIMATIC CHANGE, 164(1-2), 6. (SCIE) (IF: 5.174; SCI ranking: 31.5%,24.5%)
11. Chen, Yu-Chi, Kuo, Hao-Chih, Lo, Wen-Sui & Hung, Chih-Ming*, 2020, “Avian phenotypic convergence is subject to low genetic constraints based on genomic evidence”, BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, 20, 147. (SCIE) (IF: 3.438; SCI ranking: 46.2%,49.7%)
12. Chen, C.-Y., Chen, C.-K., Chen, Y.-Y., Fang, A., Shaw, G.T.-W., Hung, C.-M.* & Wang, D.*, 2020, “Maternal gut microbes shape the early-life assembly of gut microbiota in passerine chicks via nests”, MICROBIOME, 8, 129. (SCIE) (IF: 16.837; SCI ranking: 6.5%)
13. Feng Dong, Chih-Ming Hung*, Xiao-Jun Yang*, 2020, “Secondary contact after allopatric divergence explains avian speciation and T high species diversity in the Himalayan-Hengduan Mountains”, MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION, 143, 106671. (SCIE) (IF: 5.019; SCI ranking: 36.7%,21.2%,21.5%)
14. Nguyen, H. N., Hung, C. M., Yang, M. Y., & Lin, S. M.*, 2020, “Sympatric competitors have driven the evolution of temporal activity patterns in Cnemaspis geckos in Southeast Asia”, SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 10, 27. (SCIE) (IF: 4.997; SCI ranking: 25.7%)
15. Huang, C.-C., Chen, Y.-Y., Fang, Y.-T., Chen, Y.-C. and Hung, C.-M.*, 2019, “Generating brain matrices for zebra finch brain sectioning using three-dimensional printing technology”, JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE METHODS, 327, 108399. (SCIE) (IF: 2.987; SCI ranking: 62%,71.3%)
16. Yang, S.-F., Lu, C.-W., Yao, C.-T. and Hung, C.-M.*, 2019, “To Trim or Not to Trim: Effects of Read Trimming on the De Novo Genome Assembly of a Widespread East Asian Passerine, the Rufous-Capped Babbler (Cyanoderma ruficeps Blyth)”, GENES, 10(10), 737. (SCIE) (IF: 4.141; SCI ranking: 40.7%)
17. Yu-Chi Chen, Masoud Nazarizadeh, Fu-Min Lei, Xiao-Jun Yang, Cheng-Te Yao, Feng Dong, Lu Dong, Fa-Sheng Zou, Sergei V. Drovetski, Yang Liu, Chun-Cheng Huang & Chih-Ming Hung*, 2019, “The niches of nuthatches affect their lineage evolution differently across latitude”, MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, 28(4), 803-817. (SCIE) (IF: 6.622; SCI ranking: 20.9%,10.9%,13.5%)
18. Hung N. Nguyen, Chia-Wei Lu, Jui-Hua Chu, Larry L. Grismer, Chih-Ming Hung* and Si-Min Lin*, 2019, “Historical demography of four gecko species specializing in boulder cave habitat – its implications in the evolutionary dead end hypothesis and conservation”, MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, 28(4), 772-784. (SCIE) (IF: 6.622; SCI ranking: 20.9%,10.9%,13.5%)
19. Lai, Y.T., Yeung, C.K., Omland, K.E., Pang, E.L., Hao, Y., Liao, B.Y., Cao, H.F., Zhang B.W. Yeh, C.F., Hung, C.M., Hung H.Y., Yang, M.Y., Liang W., Hsu, Y.C. Yao, C.T., Dong, L., Lin, K. & Li, S.H.*, 2019, “Standing genetic variation as the predominant source for adaptation of a songbird.”, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 116(6), 2152-2157. (SCIE) (IF: 12.779; SCI ranking: 12.2%)
20. Jhih-Syuan Wang & Chih-Ming Hung*, 2019, “Barn Swallow Nest Predation by a Recent Urban Invader, the Taiwan Whistling Thrush – Implications for the Evolution of Urban Avian Communities”, ZOOLOGICAL STUDIES, 58, 1. (SCIE) (IF: 1.904; SCI ranking: 35%)
21. Chih-Ming Hung*, Robert M. Zink and Shou-Hsien Li, 2018, “Can genomic variation explain the extinction of the passenger pigeon?”, JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY, 49(8), UNSP e01858. (SCIE) (IF: 2.248; SCI ranking: 16.1%)
22. Yi-Ting Fang, Mao-Ning Tuanmu* & Chih-Ming Hung*, 2018, “Asynchronous evolution of interdependent nest characters across the avian phylogeny”, NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 9, 1863. (SCIE) (IF: 17.694; SCI ranking: 8.1%)
23. H.L. Mays*, C.-M. Hung, P.-J. Shaner,J. Denvir, M. Justice, S.-F. Yang, T.L. Roth, D.A. Oehler, J. Fan, S. Rekulapally and D.A. Primerano, 2018, “Genomic analysis of demographic history and ecological niche modeling in the endangered Sumatran Rhinoceros Dicerorhinus sumatrensis”, CURRENT BIOLOGY, 28, 70-76. (SCIE) (IF: 10.9; SCI ranking: 8.8%,3.2%,15.9%)