Peer-reviewed Publications:
*: corresponding author; †: equal first-authorship
Latest publication list please see my Google Scholar page [Link]
After PhD:
21. Daiping Wang*, Xiang-Yi Li Richter*. Who takes care of the kids at when? Variation of sex-role patterns across different parental care forms in passerine birds. BioRxiv (preprint) [Link]
20. Zegni Triki*†, Xiang-Yi Li Richter†, Camille Demairé, Shun Kurokawa, Redouan Bshary. Marine cleaning mutualism defies standard logic of supply and demand. The American Naturalist (accepted)
19. Xiang-Yi Li Richter*, Brian Hollis. Softness of selection and mating system interact to shape trait evolution under sexual conflict. Evolution, 75: 2335–2347, 2021 [Link]
18. Xiang-Yi Li*, Hanna Kokko. Sexual dimorphism driven by intersexual resource competition: why is it rare, and where to look for it? Journal of Animal Ecology, 90: 1831–1843, 2021 [Link]
17. Xiang-Yi Li*, Andrew Morozov, Wolfgang Goymann. Coevolution of female fidelity and male help in populations with alternative reproductive tactics. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288: 20202371, 2021. [Link]
16. Filip Ruzicka*, Ludovic Dutoit, Peter Czuppon, Crispin Y. Jordan, Xiang-Yi Li, Colin Olito, Homa Papoli Yazdi, Anna Runemark, Erik I. Svensson, Tim Connallon, The search for sexually antagonistic genes: Practical insights from studies of local adaptation and statistical genomics. Evolution Letters, 4: 398–415, 2020. [Link]
15. Alan A. Cohen*, Christophe Coste, Xiang‐Yi Li, Salomé Bourg, and Samuel Pavard. Are trade‐offs really the key drivers of aging and lifespan? Functional Ecology, 34: 153 –166, 2020. [Link]
14. Xiang-Yi Li*, Hanna Kokko. Intersexual resource competition and the evolution of sex-biased dispersal. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7: 111, 2019. [Link]
13. Xiang-Yi Li*, Hanna Kokko. Sex-biased dispersal: a review of the theory. Biological Reviews, 94(2): 721–736, 2019. [Link]
12. Tim Connallon*, Florence Débarre, Xiang-Yi Li, Linking local adaptation with the evolution of sex differences, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 373: 20170414, 2018. [Link]
11. Xiang-Yi Li*, Luke Holman. Evolution of female choice under intralocus sexual conflict and genotype-by-environment interactions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 373: 20170425, 2018 [Link]
10. Xiaoquan Yu, Xiang-Yi Li*. Applications of WKB and Fokker-Planck methods in analyzing population extinction driven by weak demographic fluctuations. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2018 [Link]
9. Stefano Giaimo*, Xiang-Yi Li, Arne Traulsen, and Annette Baudisch. Evolution of fixed demographic heterogeneity from a game of stable coexistence. Demographic Research, 38: 197-226, 2018. [Link]
8. Xiang-Yi Li*, Jussi Lehtonen, and Hanna Kokko. Sexual reproduction as bet-hedging. In Joe Apaloo and Bruno Viscolani, editors, Advances in Dynamic and Mean Field Games, Annals of the International Society of Dynamic Games. Birkhäuser Verlag, 2017. [Link]
7. Xiang-Yi Li, Tim Lachnit, Sebastian Fraune, Thomas CG Bosch, Arne Traulsen, and Michael Sieber*. Temperate phages as self-replicating weapons in bacterial competition. Journal of The Royal Society Interface,14: 20170563, 2017 [Link]
6. Hai-Yan Chen, Xiang-Yi Li, Bing-Jie Liu, and Xiang-Hong Meng*. Microencapsulation of lactobacillus bulgaricus and survival assays under simulated gastrointestinal conditions. Journal of Functional Foods, 29: 248–255, 2017. [Link]
5. Stefan Dennenmoser, Fritz J Sedlazeck, Elzbieta Iwaszkiewicz, Xiang-Yi Li, Janine Altmüller, and Arne W Nolte*. Copy number increases of transposable elements and protein coding genes in an invasive fish of hybrid origin. Molecular Ecology, 26: 4712–4724, 2017. [Link]
During PhD:
4. Xiang-Yi Li, Shun Kurokawa, Stefano Giaimo, Arne Traulsen*. How life history can sway the fixation probability of mutants. Genetics, 203:1297–1313, 2016. [Link]
3. Xiang-Yi Li, Cleo Pietschke, Sebastian Fraune, Philipp M. Altrock, Thomas C. G. Bosch, and Arne Traulsen*. Which games are growing bacterial populations playing? Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 12:108, 2015. [Link]
2. Xiang-Yi Li, Stefano Giaimo, Annette Baudisch, Arne Traulsen*. Modeling evolutionary games in populations with demographic structure. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 280:506–515, 2015. [Link]
Before PhD:
1. Han Liu, Chengsheng Liu, Jun Chen, Xiangyi Li, Bing Fan, Liyuan Chen, Xiguang Chen. Preparation and characterization and biological functions of collagen from Alaska Pollock processing by-products. Journal of Functional Materials. 42: 959-962, 2011 (in Chinese)
Other publications:
PhD thesis:
Xiang-Yi Li, Applying Evolutionary Game Theory in Modeling Life History Evolution and Bacterial Population Dynamics. PhD thesis (summa cum laude), 2016. Supervisor: Arne Traulsen [Link]
Patents and licenses:
Yurong Gao, Xiangyi Li, Anping Deng, Pei Liu, Xiaolong Deng et al. A wind and solar energy powered traffic light for rural areas. Chinese Utility Model Patent: CN20194044. 2009
Conference presentations:
Invited talk:
8. Some applications of evolutionary game theory in understanding biological interactions. University of Bern. Mar. 30, 2021, Bern, Switzerland
7. Theory models inspired by the life history and ecology of birds, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Sep. 26, 2019, Seewiesen, Germany
6. Sex-biased dispersal: bridging empirical and theoretical studies, Seminar Series Biology of University of Neuchâtel, Oct. 18, 2018, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
5. Intersexual resource competition and the evolution of sex-biased dispersal, 7th Lausanne CompBio Meeting, Sep. 26, 2018, Lausanne, Switzerland.
4. Softness of selection and the evolution of sex-biased dispersal, 1st AsiaEvo Conference, April 18-20, 2018, Shenzhen, China.
3. The evolution of sex-biased dispersal from ecological interactions, DynaTrait conference 2017, Oct. 9-13, 2017, Hannover, Germany
2. Evolution of sexual-dimorphism by resource competition, Aquatic Ecology & Macroevolution Seminar, Sep. 27, 2017, Eawag Kastanienbaum, Switzerland.
1. A glimpse of the applications of statistical physics methods in evolutionary biology, Young Scientists’ Forum on Theoretical Physics and Interdisciplinary Studies, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (CAS), Jan. 12-14, 2017, Beijing, China.
Contributed talks:
15. Applications of evolutionary game theory in understanding biological interactions. TheBioNet seminar series, Mar. 17, 2021, online via Zoom.
14. Can population size/age-structures promote the evolution of social competence?, 7th EvoDemo Society Annual Meeting: Evolutionary Demography under Global Change, Oct 6-11, 2020, Røros and online, Norway.
13. Intersexual resource competition drives the coevolution of male and female dispersal traits, American Naturalist Society Meeting 2020, Jan 3-7, Pacific Grove, USA.
12. Coevolution of female fidelity and male help under intralocus sexual conflict, ESEB Congress 2019, Aug. 19-24, Turku, Finland.
11. Coevolution of female fidelity and male help under intra- and inter-locus sexual conflict, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Symposium (EEBST2019), Jul. 10-12, 2019, Ankara, Turkey.
10. Evolution of sexual dimorphism by intersexual resource competition, Models in Population Dynamics, Ecology, and Evolution (MPDEE’18), Apr. 9-13, 2018, Leicester, UK.
9. Can sexual dimorphism evolve because of natural selection? Biology18: The Annual Swiss Conference on Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, Biogeography and Conservation, Feb. 14-16, 2018, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
8. Integrating evolutionary game theory with life history theory. EvoDemo2018: Evolutionary demography society 5th annual meeting, Jan 8-10, 2018, Lyon, France.
7. Softness of selection and the evolution of sex-biased dispersal, Dispersal—connecting networks, Dec. 10, 2018, Ghent, Belgium.
6. Soft selection and Sex-biased dispersal, the International Conference of Modelling Biological Evolution 2017: Developing Novel Approaches, Apr. 4-7, 2017, Leicester, UK.
5. Sexual reproduction as bet-hedging, Biology17: The Annual Swiss Conference on Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, Biogeography and Conservation, Feb. 2-3, 2017, Bern, Switzerland.
4. What games are growing bacterial populations playing? Gordon Research Conference: Animal-Microbe Symbioses, Jun. 21-26, 2015, Waterville Valley, NH, USA.
3. Modeling evolutionary games in populations with demographic structure, Biannual conference of the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology, Jul. 5-10, 2015, Montreal, Canada.
2. Modeling bacterial games in the Hydra microbiota, Workshop on Evolutionary Genomics of Symbiosis, Dec. 1-2, 2014, Halifax, Canada.
1. A deterministic model of in vitro bacterial interactions, SMBE Satellite Meeting on Reticulated Microbial Evolution, Apr. 27–30, 2014, Kiel, Germany.
Posters:
5. Intersexual resource competition and the evolution of sex-biased dispersal, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Symposium (EEBST2019), Jul. 10-12, 2019, Ankara, Turkey
4. Coevolution of female fidelity and male help under intralocus sexual conflict, Modelling Ecology & Evolution Zürich, Jun. 27-28, 2019, Zürich, Switzerland
3. Evolution of female choice under intralocus sexual conflict and genotype-by-environment interactions, II Joined Congress on Evolutionary Biology, Aug. 18-22, 2018, Montpellier, France.
2. Sexual reproduction as bet-hedging, the 16th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Aug. 20-25, 2017, Groningen, the Netherlands.
1. What game are growing bacterial populations playing? Games in Evolution: Models and Microbes, Dec 5-6, 2013, Paris, France.