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Title: Associate professor
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E-mail: wuqian@ivpp.ac.cn
Academic Qualifications
2018 - 2022 PhD in Paleontology and Stratigraphy
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
2016 - 2017 Master of Science
International University of Andalusia (UNIA), Spain
2009 - 2012 Master of Science in Ecology
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
2005 - 2009 BA in Wildlife Conservation and Nature Reserve Management
Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China
Professional Appointments
2025-present Associate professor
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China
2022-2025 Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences/Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
2012-2013 Research Assistant in wildlife conservation. Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
Paleohistology on fossillized soft tissue
Wu Q, Weppe R, Lezin C., Pan Y-H, and Bailleul AM. 2024. Report of bioerosions and cells in Cainotheriidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the phosphorites of Quercy (SW France). Scientific Reports 14:23708.
Wu Q, Zhou Z-H, and Li Z-H. 2024. A secondary endochondral ossification centre in the furcula of extant birds and its significance for the evolution of the neornithine acrocoracoclavicular joint. Historical Biology.
Wu Q, O’Connor JK, Wang S, and Zhou Z-H. 2024. Transformation of the pectoral girdle in pennaraptorans: critical steps in the formation of the modern avian shoulder joint. PeerJ 12:e16960.
Wu Q, Pan Y-H, Li Z-H, Zhou Z-H, and Bailleul AM. 2024. First histochemical examination of a Miocene ostrich eggshell with the oldest mineral-bound peptides. Vertebrata Palasiatica 62:120.
Wu Q, Chen H, Li Z-H, Jiang S-X, Wang X-L, and Zhou Z-H. 2023. The morphology and histology of the pectoral girdle of Hamipterus (Pterosauria), from the Early Cretaceous of Northwest China. The Anatomical Record 2023:1–12.
Bailleul, AM, Wu Q, Li D-S, Li Z-H, and Zhou Z-H. 2023. Do chondrocytes within calcified cartilage have a higher preservation potential than osteocytes? A preliminary taphonomy experiment. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 61:108.
Chen H, Li Z-H, Jiang S-X, Wu Q, Gong Y-X, Zhu X-F, and Wang X-L. 2023. A preliminary analysis of dental microstructure in Hamipterus (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea). The Anatomical Record ar.25289.
Wang S, Ma Y, Wu Q, Wang M, Hu D-Y, Sullivan C, and Xu X. 2022. Digital restoration of the pectoral girdles of two Early Cretaceous birds, and implications for early flight evolution. eLife 11:e76086.
Wu Q, Bailleul AM, and Li Z-H. 2021. Application of paraffin section and histochemistry technique in paleohistology of fossil samples. Bio-101.
Wu, Q, O’Connor JM, Li Z-H, and Bailleul AM. 2021. Cartilage on the furculae of living birds and the extinct bird Confuciusornis: a preliminary analysis and implications for flight style inferences in Mesozoic birds. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 59:106–124.
Wu, Q, Bailleul AM, Li Z-H, O’Connor JK, and Zhou Z-H. 2021. Osteohistology of the scapulocoracoid of Confuciusornis and preliminary analysis of the shoulder joint in Aves. Frontiers in Earth Science 9:617124.
Bailleul AM, O’Connor JK, Li Z-H, Wu Q, Zhao T, Martinez Monleon MA, Wang M, Zheng X-T, Confirmation of ovarian follicles in an enantiornithine (Aves) from the Jehol biota using soft tissue analyses. Communications biology, 2020, 3: 1-8