Marine biology, population genetics, molecular ecology, phylogeography​.

1. Zhang H*, Sun S, Liu J, …, Xu X*, Liu S*, Fan G*. The amphipod genome reveals population dynamics and adaptations to hadal environment. Cell. 2025, 188(5):1378-1392.

2. Xu H, Fang C, Xu W, …, Zhang H*, Wang K*, He S*. Evolution and genetic adaptation of fishes to the deep sea. Cell. 2025 Mar 6;188(5):1393-1408.

3. Xiao Y, Zhang H*. 2025. Integrative taxonomy reveals three new species and one new record of Psychropotes (Holothuroidea, Elasipodida, Psychropotidae) from the Kermadec Trench region and the Wallaby-Zenith Fracture Zone. PeerJ 13:e18806, DOI 10.7717/peerj.18806

4. Xiao Y, Zhang H*. Morphological and molecular evidence reveals a new species of Laetmogone (Holothuroidea, Elasipodida) from abyssal depths of the south Pacific Ocean. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 101 (1) 2025, 127–139.

5. Zhang, Y., Zhang, X., Zhang, N. …Zhang H*., Meng L*. A single-cell plume transcriptome atlas of the cold-seep tubeworm Paraescarpia echinospica. Sci Data 12,

1020 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05392-z

6. Peng, X., Du, M*., Gebruk, A..., Zhang H., …, Adrianov A*. Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches. Nature 645,

679–685 (2025)

7. Xiao X, Zhao W, Song Z, …, Zhang H, …, Han M, Xu X, Liu S. Microbial ecosystems and ecological driving forces in the deepest ocean sediments. Cell. 2025 Mar 6;188(5):1363-1377.e9. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.12.036. PMID: 40054447.

8. Zhang H*, Zhou Y, Yang Z. Genetic adaptations of marine invertebrates to hydrothermal vent habitats. Trends in Genetics. 2024 Dec;40(12):1047-1059.

9. Yujin Pu, Yang Zhou, Jun Liu, Haibin Zhang*, A high-quality chromosomal genome assembly of the sea cucumber Chiridota heheva and its hydrothermal

adaptation, GigaScience, 13, 2024, giad107, https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giad107

10. Xiao Y, Zhang H*. Three new species and one new record of Deimatidae (Echinodermata, Holothuroidea, Synallactida) discovered in the South China Sea and the Mariana fore-arc area using integrative taxonomic methods. Zookeys. 2024 Mar 20; 1195:309-335.

11. Zhou Y, Liu H, Feng C, Lu Z, Liu J, Huang Y, Tang H, Xu Z, Pu Y, Zhang H*. Genetic adaptations of sea anemone to hydrothermal environment. Science

Advance. 2023 Oct 20;9(42): eadh0474. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adh0474.

12. Liu J, Zhou Y, Pu Y, Zhang H*. A chromosome-level genome assembly of a deep-sea starfish (Zoroaster cf. ophiactis). Scientific Data. 2023 Aug;10(1):506. DOI:

10.1038/s41597-023-02397-4.

13. Li, Y.; Chen, Z.; Zhang, P.; Gao, F.; Wang, J.; Lin, L.; Zhang, H*. Characterization of a Novel Superoxide Dismutase from a Deep-sea Sea Cucumber (Psychoropotes

verruciaudatus). Antioxidants 2023, 12, 1227.

14. Nethupul H., Stöhr S. & Zhang H*. 2023. Deepest known novel species of the genus Ophiuroglypha Hertz, 1927 (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from the central rift zone, Philippine Sea. European Journal of Taxonomy 891 :167–185.

15. Jun Liu, Lvpei Du, Zhilei Sun, Haibin Zhang*, (2022) Comparison of structure and diversity of benthic communities in the Okinawa Trough and Mariana Trench by environmental DNA metabarcoding, Deep Sea Research Part I, 185, 103806

16. Nethupul H., Stöhr S. & Zhang H*. 2022. New species, redescriptions and new records of deep-sea brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from the South China Sea, an integrated morphological and molecular approach. European Journal of Taxonomy 810: 1–95.