承担数余项国家自然科学基金、农业生物育种重大项目“科技创新2030”、内蒙古“揭榜挂帅”项目等国家级、省部级科研项目;以通讯作者或第一作者在Nature Communications、Gut、BMC Biol、Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences、PLoS Genet、J Pineal Res、Development、FASEB J等国际知名期刊发表SCI论文，其中部分论文入选全球1% ESI高被引论文。参编外文书籍1本。

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代表性SCI论文：

1. Zhang T^#, *; Sun P^#; Geng Q; Fan HT; Gong YT; Hu YT; Shan LY; Sun YC; Shen W; Zhou Y*; Disrupted spermatogenesis in a metabolic syndrome model: the role of vitamin A metabolism in the gut-testis axis, Gut, 2022 Jan;71(1):78-87. (IF=31.793, 中科院SCI一区, TOP期刊, Corresponding author，入选ESI 1%全球高被引论文)

2. Liu WX; Liu HN; Weng ZP; Geng Qi; Zhang Y; Li YF; Shen W; Zhou Y*; Zhang T*. Maternal vitamin B1 is a determinant for the fate of primordial follicle formation in offspring. Nat Commun, 2023. (IF=16.6中科院SCI一区, TOP期刊, Corresponding author)

3. Sun YC^#; Sun P^#; Hu YT^#; Shan LY^#; Geng Q; Gong, YT; Fan HT; Zhang T*; Zhou Y*; Elevated testicular apoptosis is associated with elevated sphingosine driven by gut microbiota in prediabetic sheep, BMC Biology, 2022. (IF=7.364, 中科院SCI一区, TOP期刊, Corresponding author)

4. Shan LY ^#; Tian Y ^#; Liu WX ^#; Fan HT; Li FG; Liu WJ; Li A; Shen W; Sun QY; Liu YB*, Zhou Y*; Zhang T*. LSM14B controls oocyte mRNA storage and stability to ensure female fertility. Cell Mol Life Sci, 2023. (IF=9.207，中科院SCI一区, TOP期刊，Corresponding author)

5. Shan LY, Fan HT, Guo J, Zhou HY, Li FG, Jiang ZM, Wu D, Feng XL, Mo R, Liu YB*, Zhang T*, Zhou Y*. Impairment of oocyte quality caused by gut microbiota dysbiosis in obesity. Genomics, 2024.(中科院二区期刊，IF=3.4, Corresponding author)

6. Kong L, Gong YT, Wang YY, Yuan MJ, Liu WX, Zhou HY, Meng XY, Guo XR, Liu YB, Zhou Y*, Zhang T*. Multi-omics revealed that DCP1A and SPDL1 determine embryogenesis defects in postovulatory ageing oocytes. Cell Proliferation. 2024. (中科院一区, TOP期刊，IF=8.5, Corresponding author)

7. Tian Y; Sun P; Liu WX; Shan LY; Hu YT; Fan HT; Shen W; Liu YB; Zhou Y*; Zhang T*; Single-cell RNA sequencing of the Mongolia sheep testis reveals a conserved and divergent transcriptome landscape of mammalian spermatogenesis, FASEB J, 2022. (IF=5.834, 中科院SCI二区, TOP期刊, Corresponding author)

8. Zhou Y; Qin Y; Qin YY; Xu BY; Guo T; Ke HN; Chen M; Zhang LJ; Han F; Li YQ; Chen M; Behrens Axel; Wang YQ; Xu ZH*; Chen ZJ*; Gao F*; Wdr62 is involved in female meiotic initiation via activating JNK signaling and associated with POI in humans, PLoS Genetics, 2018, 14(8): e1007463. (IF=6.02, 中科院SCI一区, TOP期刊, First author)

9. Zhang T^#; Zhou Y^#; Li L; Zhao Y; De Felici M; Reiter RJ; Shen W; Melatonin protects prepuberal testis from deleterious effects of BPA and DEHP by preserving H3K9 methylation, J Pineal Res, 2018 Sep; 65(2): e12497. (IF=12.081, 中科院SCI一区, TOP期刊, Co-first author)

10. Qin Y^#; Zhou Y^#; Shen Z^#; Xu B; Chen M; Li Y; Chen M; Behrens A; Zhou J; Qi X; Meng W; Wang Y; Gao F*; WDR62 is involved in spindle assembly by interacting with CEP170 in spermatogenesis, Development, 2019, 146(20): dev174128. （IF=6.862, 中科院SCI二区，TOP期刊，Co-first author）

11. Zhang T^#; Zhou Y^#; Li L; Wang Z; Shen W; Schatten H; Sun QY*; CenpH regulates meiotic G2/M transition by modulating the APC/C-Cdh1-cyclin B1 pathway in oocytes, Development, 2017, 144(2): 305-312.（IF=6.862, 中科院SCI二区，TOP期刊, Co-first author）