袁智勇，1988年出生，理学博士，教授，博士生导师。主要从事野生动物分类、演化和保护研究。目前已在Nature、PNAS、National Science Review、Systematic Biology、Conservation Letters、Current Biology、Biological Conservation等国内外期刊发表SCI论文70余篇，主持国家级项目6项、省部级项目十余项。现任中国动物学会生物地理学分会第二届委员会委员，国际动物学权威期刊Integrative Zoology青年编委、Zoological Research、ZRDC编委。曾应邀为MBE、ME、MPE等著名学术期刊审稿。作为主要成员参与了“中国两栖类”信息系统（http://www.amphibiachina.org/）的创建工作。
招生方向：动物学（动物生态学、进化生态学、分子基因组学）
电子邮箱：yuanzhiyongkiz@126.com
学习和工作经历：
2025.09-至今 西南大学，生命科学学院，教授
2021.09-2025.09 西南大学，生命科学学院，含弘研究员
2018.11-2021.08西南林业大学，生物多样性保护学院，副教授
2016.08-2018.11西南林业大学，生物多样性保护学院，讲师
2010.09-2016.01中国科学院大学（培养单位：中科院昆明动物研究所），遗传与进化国家重点实验室，理学博士
2006.09-2010.07西华师范大学，生命科学学院，理学学士
获奖及荣誉：
2022年入选“重庆市青年英才”
2020年入选中国科协“青年人才托举工程”
2020年获“云南省优秀青年项目”
2019年入选“云南省中青年学术和技术带头人后备人才”
2019年入选IUCN（世界自然保护联盟）两栖动物濒危物种红色名录评估专家
2018年获“全国优秀青年生态学工作者”荣誉称号
研究内容：
生物多样性格局与演化、关键生物性状遗传机制解析、珍稀物种濒危机制与保护实践
代表论文：
1.Song, Y.F.(#), Liu, X.L.(#), Liu, J.J., Li, Q.Q., Li, X.Q., Lu, W.Z., Zhou, W.W.*,Yuan, Z.Y.*. 2025. Biodiversity conservation requires consideration of different life history stages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.(accepted, https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2507870122).
2.Wu, D.Y., Prendini, E., Raxworthy, C.J., Wang, Z.J., Zhou, W.W., Chen, J.M., Suwannapoom, C., Sucharitakul, P., Pie, M.R., Xu, W.*,Yuan, Z.Y.*. 2025. Earth history and trait innovation drive the global radiation of modern toads. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 292(2057), 20251928.（封面论文,获《Science》杂志专题报道https://www.science.org/content/article/poisonous-sacs-helped-toads-conquer-world）
3.WuD.Y.,Lee PS, Chen H.M.,Yan F., HuangJ.Y., HeY.H., Wu R.Y.Yuan Z.Y.*.2025.Validation and development of eDNA metabarcoding primers for comprehensive assessment of Chinese amphibians.Integrative Zoology;20(3), 504–519.
4.Song Y.F., Tian R., Wang Y.L., Wei P.F., Zhang T., Luo S.W.,Yuan Z.Y.*, Zhou W.W.*. 2025. TadpoleTraits: A global database on morphological traits of tadpoles of Anura. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34(5): e70055.
5.Lee P.S., Liu B., Ouyang M., Ai R.D., Liu X.L., He Y.H., Huang P.Q., Li Y.C., Naveen R.S.,Yuan Z.Y. *, Chen J.M. *. 2024. Hidden in the bamboo: A new parachuting frog (Rhacophoridae,Rhacophorus) from the borderlands of western China, with comments on the taxonomy ofR. rhodopus. Zoosystematics and Evolution, 100(3), 851–862.
6.Hong Y.H.,Yuan Z.Y.*, Liu X.*2024.Global drivers of the conservation–invasion paradox.Conservation Biology,e14290.
7.Xu W., Wu Y.H., Chen H.M., Zhang B.L., Chen J.M., Xu W., Rao D.Q., Zhao H., Yan F.,Yuan Z.Y, Jiang K., Jin J.Q., Hou M., Zou D.H, Zheng Y.C, Li J.T., Jiang J.P., Zeng X.M., Chen Y.H., Liao Z.Y., Li C., Li X.Y., Gao W., Wang K., Zhang D.R., Lu C.Q., Yin T.T., Ding Z.L., Zhao G.G., Chai J., Zhao W.G., Wiens J.J.*, Che J*. 2024. Hidden hotspots of amphibian biodiversity in China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, e2320674121.
8.Luedtke, J. A., Chanson, J., Neam, K.,...Yuan Z.Y.,Long B., Langhammer P., Stuart S. N. 2023. Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians in the face of emerging threats.Nature, 1–7.
9.Wei P.F., Wu Y.K., Ai R.D., Tie M.H., Duan Y.B.*,Yuan Z.Y.*. 2023. Artificial ponds can be ecological traps for amphibians: a case study from Chuxiong Prefecture, Yunnan, China. Biological Conservation, 279: 109945.
10.Wu Y.H.(#), Hou S.B.(#),Yuan Z.Y.(#), Jiang K.(#), Huang R.Y.(#), Wang K.(#), Liu Q., Yu Z.B., Zhao H.P., Zhang B.L., Chen J.M., Wang L.J., Stuart B.L., Chambers E.A., Wang Y.F., Gao W., Zou D.H., Yan F., Zhao G.G., Fu Z.X., Wang S.N., Jiang M., Zhang L., Ren J.L., Wu Y.Y., Zhang L.Y., Yang D.C., Jin J.Q., Yin T.T., Li J.T., Zhao W.G., Murphy R.W., Huang S., Guo P., Zhang Y.P.*, Che J.*. 2023. DNA barcoding of Chinese snakes reveals hidden diversity and conservation needs. Molecular Ecology Resources, 23(5): 1124–1141.
11.Huang N., Sun X.Y., Song Y.F.,Yuan Z.Y., Zhou W.W.*. 2023. A global database on morphological traits of amphibians. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32: 633–641.
12.Yuan Z.Y., Wu Y.K., Yan F., Murphy R.W., Papenfuss T.J., Wake D.B., Zhang Y.P.*, Che J.*.2022. Comparative multi-locus assessment of modern Asian newts (Cynops,Paramesotriton, andPachytriton: Salamandridae) in southern China suggests a shared biogeographic history. Zoological Research, 43: 706–718.
13.Wei P.F., Chen J.M., Duan Y.B., Song Y.F., Wang Z.J.*,Yuan Z.Y.*.2022.More accurate, consistent, and reliable data for amphibian species are needed from China’s nature reserves.Conservation Science and Practice, 5(2): e12872.
14.Yuan Z.Y., Wu D.Y., Wen Y., Xu W., Gao W., Dahn H.A., Liu X.L., Jin J.Q., Yu C.X., Xiao H.*, Che J.*.2022. Historical mitochondrial genome introgression confounds species delimitation: evidence from phylogenetic inference in theOdorrana grahamispecies complex. Current Zoology, 69(1): 82-90.
15.Yan F., Nneji L.M., Jin J.Q.,Yuan Z.Y., Chen J.M., M X., Chen H.M, Murphy R.W., Che J*. (2021). Multi-locus genetic analyses ofQuasipaafrom throughout its distribution. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 163: 107218, 2021.
16.Yan F., Liu X.L., Zhang Y.P.,Yuan Z.Y.* Direct development of the bush frogRaorchestes longchuanensis. Journal of Natural History, 55: 125–132, 2021.
17.Hou S.B.,Yuan Z.Y.,We P.F., Zhao G.G, Liu G.H.,. Wu Y.H, Shen W.J., Chen J.M., Guo P., * Che J.* Molecular phylogeny and morphological comparisons of the genusHebiusThompson, 1913 (Reptilia:Squamata: Colubridae) uncover a new taxon from Yunnan Province, China, and support revalidation ofHebius septemlineatus(Schmidt, 1925). Zoological Research, 42(5): 62–625, 2021.
18.Chen J.M, Xu K., Poyarkov N.A., Wang K.,Yuan Z.Y., Hou M., Suwannapoom C., Che J*. How little is known about “the little brown frogs”: description of three new species of the genusLeptobrachella(Anura: Megophryidae) from Yunnan of China. Zoological Research, 41(3): 292–313, 2020.
19.Chen J.M., Prendini E., Wu Y.H., Zhang B.L., Suwannapoom C., Chen H.M., Lemmon E.M., Lemmon A.R., Stuart B., Raxworthy C., Murphy R.W.,Yuan Z.Y.*, Che J*. An integrative phylogenomic approach illuminates the evolutionary history of Old World tree frogs (Anura: Rhacophoridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 145: 106724, 2020.
20.Chen J.M,, Xu K., Poyarkov N.A., Wang K.,Yuan Z.Y., Hou M., Suwannapoom C., Che J*. How little is known about “the little brown frogs”: description of three new species of the genusLeptobrachella(Anura: Megophryidae) from Yunnan of China. Zoological Research, 41(3): 292–313, 2020.
21.Byrne A.Q., Vredenburg V.T., Martel A., Pasmans F., Bell R.C., Blackburn D.C., Briggs C.J., Brown R.M., Bletz M.C., Bosch J., Figueroa-Valenzuela R., Ghose S.L., Jaeger J.R., Jani A.J., Jirku M., Knapp R.A., Portik D.M., Richards-Zawacki C.L., Rockney H., Stark T., Sulaeman H., Tao N.T., Voyles J., Waddle A.W.,Yuan Z.Y.,, Rosenblum E.B. Cryptic diversity of a widespread global pathogen reveals new threats for amphibian conservation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116: 20382–20387, 2019
22.Yuan Z.Y.(#),Zhang B.L.(#), Raxworthy C.J., Weisrock D.W., Hime P.M., Jin J.Q., Lemmon E.M., Lemmon A.R., Holland S.D., Kortyna M.L., Zhou W.W., Peng M.S., Che J.*, Prendini E.Natatanuran frogs used the Indian Plate to step-stone disperse and radiate across the Indian Ocean. National Science Review, 6: 10–14, 2019.
23.Yuan Z.Y.*,Martel A., Wu J., Praet S.V., Canessa S., Pasmans F.* Widespread occurrence of an emerging fungal pathogen in heavily traded Chinese urodelan species. Conservation Letters, 11: e12436, 2018.
24.Yan F., Lü J.C., Zhang B.L.,Yuan Z.Y.,Zhao H.P., Huang S., Wei G., Mi X., Zou D.H., Xu W., Chen S., Wang J., Xie F., Wu M.Y., Xiao H.B., Liang Z.Q., Tapley B., Turvey S.T., Papenfuss T.J., Cunningham A.A., Murphy R.W., Zhang Y.P.*, Che Jing.*The Chinese giant salamander exemplifies the hidden extinction of cryptic species. Current Biology, 28: R581–R598, 2018.
25.Beukema W., Pasmans F., Nguyen T.T., Goka K., Smeller D.S.,Yuan Z.Y., Laking, A.E. Nguyen T.Q.,. Martel A.* Environmental context and differences between native and invasive observed niches ofBatrachochytrium salamandrivoransaffect invasion risk assessments in the Western Palearctic. Diversity and Distributions, 24: 1788–1801, 2018.
26.Chen J.M., Poyarkov N.A., Suwannapoom C., Lathrop A., Wu Y.H., Zhow W.W.,Yuan Z.Y., Jin J.Q., Chen H.M., Liu H.Q., Nguyen T.Q., Nguyen S.N., Etom K., Nishikawam K., Matsui M., Orlov N.L., Duong T.V., Stuart B.L., Brown R.M., Rowley J.L.; Murphy R.M.,Zhang Y.Y.*, Yong Y.W.*, Che J.*Large-scale phylogenetic analyses provide insights into unrecognized diversity and historical biogeography of Asian leaf-litter frogs, genusLeptolalax(Anura: Megophryidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 124: 162–171, 2018.
27.Chen J.M., Zhow W.W., Poyarkov N.A., Stuart B.L., Brown R.M., Lathrop A., Yong Y.W.,Yuan Z.Y., Jiang K., Hou M., Chen H.M., Suwannapoom C., Nguyen S.N., Duong T.V., Papenfuss T.J., Murphy R.M., Zhang Y.Y., Che J.*A novel multilocus phylogenetic estimation reveals unrecognized diversity in Asian horned toads, genusMegophrys sensu lato(Anura: Megophryidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 106: 28–43, 2017.
28.Yuan Z.Y., Wu Y.K., Zhou J.J., Che J.* A new species of the genusParamesotriton(Caudata: Salamandridae) from Fujian, southeastern China. Zootaxa, 4205 (6): 549–563, 2016.
29.Yuan Z.Y.(#), Zhow W.W.(#), Chen X.(#), Poyarkov N.A., Chen H.M., Jang-Liaw N.H., Chou W.H., Matzke N.J., Iizuka K., Min M.S., Kuzmin S.L., Cannatella D.C.*, Hillis D.M.*, Zhang Y.P.*, Che J*. Spatiotemporal diversification of the true frogs (GenusRana): A historical framework for a widely studied group of model organisms. Systematic Biology, 65(5): 824–842, 2016.
30.Yuan Z.Y., Suwannapoom C., Yan F., Poyarkov N.A., Chen H.M., Nguyen S.N., Chomdej S., Murphy R.M., Che J*. Red River barrier and Pleistocene climaticfluctuations shaped the genetic structure ofMicrohyla fissipescomplex (Anura: Microhylidae) in southern China and Indochina. Current Zoology, 62(6): 531–543, 2016.
31.Yan F., Zhou W.W., Zhao H.T.,Yuan Z.Y., Wang Y.Y., Jiang K., Jing J.Q., Murphy R.W., Che J., Zhang Y.P. Geological events play a larger role than Pleistocene climaticfluctuations in driving the genetic structure ofQuasipaa boulengeri(Anura: Dicroglossidae). Molecular Ecology, 22:1120–1133, 2013.
32.Che J., Chen H.M., Yang J.X., Jing J.Q., Jing K.,Yuan Z.Y., Murphy R.W., Zhang Y.P. Universal COI primers forDNA barcoding amphibians. Molecular Ecology Resources, 12:247–258, 2012.
