Lingfeng Kong

Lingfeng Kong

Associate Professor,

Laboratory of Shellfish Genetic and Breeding

Department of Aquaculture, Fisheries College, Ocean University of China

5 Yushan Road, Qingdao 266003, P. R. China        Phone: 86-532-82032773

Fax: 86-532-82032773

Email:klfaly@ouc.edu.cn

EDUCATION

PhD, Aquaculture, Ocean University of China, 2004

MS, Aquaculture, Ocean University of China, 2001

BS, Aquaculture, Ocean University of China, 1998

RESEARCH

Research Interests:

I use molecular genetic markers to analyze the biodiversity of wild and cultured marine mollusks, addressing topics on population genetics, phylogeography, taxonomy and phylogenetics.


PUBLICATION (recent 10 years)

1. Kong LF, Bai J, Li Q (2013) Comparative assessment of genomic SSR, EST–SSR and EST–SNP markers for evaluation of the genetic diversity of wild and cultured Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas Thunberg. Aquaculture, Doi: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2013.05.037.

2. Liu XY, Kong LF, Yu H, Li Q (2013) Isolation and characterization of 14 microsatellite loci in Macridiscus semicancellata (Koch in Philippi, 1843). Conservation Genetics Resources5, 397-399.

3. Kong LF, Matuskuma A, Hayashi I, Takada Y, Li Q (2012) Taxonomy of Macridiscus species (Bivalvia:Veneridae) from the western Pacific: insight based on molecular evidence, with description of a new species. Journal of Mollucan Studies78, 1-11.

4. Chen J, Li Q, Kong LF, Yu H (2011) How DNA Barcodes Complement Taxonomy and Explore Species Diversity: The Case Study of a Poorly Understood Marine Fauna. Plos One 6: e21326.

5. Chen J, Li Q, Kong LF, Zheng XD (2011) Molecular phylogeny of venus clams (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Veneridae) with emphasis on the systematic position of taxa along the coast of mainland China. Zoologica Scripta 40: 260-271.

6. Liu J, Li Q, Kong LF, Zheng XD (2011) Cryptic diversity in the pen shell Atrina pectinata (Bivalvia: Pinnidae): high divergence and hybridization revealed by molecular and morphological data. Molecular Ecology 20: 4332-4345.

7. Kong, L. F., and Li, Q. (2009) Genetic evidence for the existence of cryptic species in an endangered clam Coelomactra antiquata, Marine Biology156, 1507-1515.

8. Kong, L. F., and Li, Q. (2008) Development of expressed sequence tag-derived microsatellite markers for the sea urchin Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus, Molecular Ecology Resources8, 152-154.

9. Kong, L. F., and Li, Q. (2007) Genetic comparison of cultured and wild populations of the clam Coelomactra antiquata (Spengler) in China using AFLP markers, Aquaculture271, 152-161.

10. Kong, L. F., Li, Q., and Qiu, Z. X. (2007) Genetic and morphological differentiation in the clam Coelomactra antiquata (Bivalvia: Veneroida) along the coast of China, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology343, 110-117.