ABOUT EEG LAB

The research team in our lab is interested in using genomic tools to answer questions in ecological adaptation, phylogenetics, biogeography, and functional trait evolution.
We often use insects and spiders as our research materials. However, we also apply our genomic tools to biomedical sciences, parasitology, communicable diseases, and microbiology.
Members in our group have strong training in genomic wet lab as well as in bioinformatics. We welcome young scientists who are interested in our field to join us.
Chania

Principal Investigator


Chania

Su, Yong-Chao

Associate Professor

Email: ycsu527@kmu.edu.tw
Phone (office): +886-7-3121101 ext 6983


Education

  • PhD, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Kansas University, U.S.A.
  • Master, Department of Life Science, Tunghal University, Taiwan
  • Bachelor,Department of Life Science, Tunghal University, Taiwan

Publications

    2025:
    • Nozomu Muto, Yong-Chao Su, Harutaka Hata, Nguyen Van Quan, Veera Vilasri, Mazlan Abd. Ghaffar, Ricardo P. Babaran "Homoploid Hybrid Speciation in a Marine Pelagic Fish." Molecular Ecology (2025): e70112.
    • Supawan Sunthorn, Yong-Chao Su, Chun-Hui Chiu, Yung-Lin Chu "The Functional Ability of Stingless Bees (Lepidotrigona) Propolis on Inflammation‐Related Disorders." Molecular Nutrition & Food Research (2025): e70163.
    • Mae A. Responte, Cheng-Yu Wu, Noraya U. Elias, Rafe M. Brown, Chia-Yen Dai, Yong-Chao Su(2025). Recent Range Expansion and Genomic Admixture in a Kleptoparasitic Spider, Argyrodes lanyuensis: A Case of Adaptive Introgression on Small, Isolated Islands of the Taiwan–Philippine Transition Zone?. Mol Ecol e17630. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17630
    • Nguyen, Thi Thu Ha, Yong-Chao Su, and Adam L. Cronin. "Varroa mites exhibit strong host fidelity despite spatial desegregation of mite and host species in Vietnam." Apidologie 56.2 (2025): 1-13.
  • Muhammad Luthfi, RB Pandey, Yong-Chao Su, Pornthep Sompornpisut(2024). Deciphering molecular basis of pesticide-induced recurrent pregnancy loss: insights from transcriptomics analysis.Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods, 34(5), 527-544
  • Po Peng, Devi Stuart-Fox, Yong-Chao Su, Yuki G. Baba, Mark A. Elgar(2024). Fitness effects of symbiotic relationships between arthropod predators: Synergy in a three-way spider symbiosis. Functional Ecology, 38, 1590–1599. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14575
  • Luong Thi Hong Phung, Yong-Chao Su, Takeshi Yamasaki, Yi-Yen Li, Katsuyuki Eguchi(2024). High species diversity of Phintella and Phintella-like spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in Vietnam revealed by DNA-based species delimitation analyses. Ecology and Evolution, 14, e11144. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11144
  • Noraya U. Elias, Mae A. Responte, Cheng-Yu Wu, Yi-Fan Chiu, Po Peng, Hauchuan Liao, Rafe M.Brown, Yong-Chao Su(2024). A shift in the host web occupancy of dew-drop spiders associated with genetic divergence in the Southwest Pacific. Journal of Biogeography, 51, 1049–1063. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14803
  • Wei-Yu Chen, Yi-Fang Chen, Jer-Min Tsai, Hsin-Mei Huang and Yong-Chao Su Epidemiology-based wastewater monitoring for ecological risks of anti-tuberculosis drugs mixture effects. Science of The Total Environment, 164560.
  • Yi-Fan Chiu, Thi Thu Ha Nguyen, Po-Ting Yeh, Adam L. Cronin, Po Peng and Yong-Chao Su (2023). Genome-wide SNPs show hybridization of Varroa mites from different Apis hosts in Vietnam and Taiwan. Apidologie, 54(2), 25.
  • Yong-Chao Su, Yi-Fan Chiu, Natapot Warrit, Gard W Otis, Deborah Roan Smith, Phylogeography and species delimitation of the Asian cavity-nesting honeybees, Insect Systematics and Diversity, Volume 7, Issue 4, July 2023, 5, https://doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixad015
  • Chia-Ning Yu, Chi-Yun Kuo, Hsing-Chieh Lin and Yong-Chao Su (2022, Jun). Foraging payoffs change with group size in kin and non-kin groups of an Argyrodinae kleptoparasitic spider, Argyrodes miniaceus. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10, 813777. (SCIE, 45/173, ECOLOGY). MOST 107-2311-B037-004-MY3.
  • Yi-Yen Li, Jer-Min Tsai, Cheng-Yu Wu, Yi-Fan Chiu, Han-Yun Li, Natapot Warrit, Yu-Cen Wan, Yen-Po Lin, Ren-Chung Cheng, Yong-Chao Su (2022, Mar). In Silico Assessment of Probe-Capturing Strategies and Effectiveness in the Spider Sub-Lineage Araneoidea (Order: Araneae). Diversity2022, 14, 184. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14030184
  • Kin Onn Chan, Carl R Hutter, Perry L Wood Jr, Yong-Chao Su, Rafe M Brown (2022, Jan). Gene Flow Increases Phylogenetic Structure and Inflates Cryptic Species Estimations: A Case Study on Widespread Philippine Puddle Frogs (Occidozyga laevis). SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY, Volume 71, Issue 1, January 2022, Pages 40–57, https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syab034
  • Responte, M., Chiu, Y. F., Peng, P., Brown, R. M., Dai, C. Y., & Su, Y. C. (2021). Northward geographic diversification of a kleptoparasitic spider Argyrodes lanyuensis (Araneae, Theridiidae) from the Philippine Archipelago to Orchid Island. Ecology and Evolution, 11(16), 11241-11266.
  • Xu, X., Su, Y. C., Ho, S. Y., Kuntner, M., Ono, H., Liu, F., ... & Li, D. (2021). Phylogenomic analysis of ultraconserved elements resolves the evolutionary and biogeographic history of segmented trapdoor spiders. Systematic biology, 70(6), 1110-1122. (Xu, X. and Su, Y. C. equal contribution)
  • Su, Y. C., Wu, C. Y., Yang, C. H., Li, B. S., Moi, S. H., & Lin, Y. D. (2021). Machine Learning Data Imputation and Prediction of Foraging Group Size in a Kleptoparasitic Spider. Mathematics, 9(4), 415.
  • Hung, W. W., Peng, P., Tsai, Y. C., Jhou, P. S., Chang, C. C., Hsieh, C. C., Su, Y. C., C.Y. Dai & Hung, W. C. (2021). Gut microbiota compositions and metabolic functions in type 2 diabetes differ with glycemic durability to metformin monotherapy. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, 174, 108731.
  • Wang, H. R., Chen, P. H., Tang, J. Y., Yen, C. Y., Su, Y. C., Huang, M. Y., & Chang, H. W. (2021). Manoalide Shows Mutual Interaction between Cellular and Mitochondrial Reactive Species with Apoptosis in Oral Cancer Cells. Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, 2021.
  • Ballarin, F., Yamasaki, T., & Su, Y. C. (2021). A survey on poorly known rainforest litter-dwelling spiders of Orchid Island (Lanyu, Taiwan) with the description of a new species (Araneae: Linyphiidae, Tetrablemmidae, and Theridiosomatidae). Zootaxa, 4927(2), 197-208.
  • Wood Jr, P.L., Guo, X., Travers, S.L., Su, Y.C., Olson, K.V., Bauer, A.M., Grismer, L.L., Siler, C.D., Moyle, R.G., Andersen, M.J. and Brown, R.M. (2020). Parachute geckos free fall into synonymy: Gekko phylogeny, and a new subgeneric classification, inferred from thousands of ultraconserved elements.Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution,146, p.106731.
  • Su, Y. C., Su, S. H., Li, H. Y., Wang, H. Y., & Lee, S. C. (2020). Implication of single year seasonal sampling to genetic diversity fluctuation that coordinates with oceanographic dynamics in torpedo scads near Taiwan. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 1-11.
  • Su, Y. C., Hung, W. W., Lin, J. M., Chang, C. C., Chen, Y. H., Lai, Y. L., ... & Hung, W. C. (2020). Tracking the evolution of the two successful CC59 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones in Taiwan: The divergence time of the two clades is estimated to be the 1980s. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, 56(2), 106047.
  • Su, Y.C., Peng P, Elgar M. A., Smith D. R. (2018). Dual pathways in social evolution: Population genetic structure of group-living and solitary species of kleptoparasitic spiders (Argyrodinae: Theridiidae). PloS one, 13(11), e0208123.
  • Chan, K. O., Alexander, A. M., Grismer, L. L., Su, Y. C., Grismer, J. L., Quah, E. SH. and Brown, R. M. (2017). Species delimitation with gene flow: A methodological comparison and population genomics approach to elucidate cryptic species boundaries in Malaysian Torrent Frogs. Molecular Ecology, 26(20), 5435-5450
  • Chen, Y. T., Tseng, H. Y., Jeng, M. L., Su, Y. C., Huang, W. S., and Lin, C. P. (2017). Integrated species delimitation and conservation implications of an endangered weevil Pachyrhynchus sonani (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Green and Orchid Islands of Taiwan. Systematic Entomology, 42(4), 796-813.
  • Alexander, A. M., Su, Y. C., Oliveros, C. H., Olson, K. V., Travers, S. L., and Brown, R. M. (2017). Genomic data reveals potential for hybridization, introgression, and incomplete lineage sorting to confound phylogenetic relationships in an adaptive radiation of narrow-mouth frogs. Evolution, 71(2), 475–488.
  • Smith, D. R., Su, Y. C., Berger-Tal, R., and Lubin, Y. (2016). Population genetic evidence for sex-specific dispersal in an inbred social spider. Ecology and Evolution, 6(15), 5479-5490.
  • Su, Y. C., Brown, R. M., Chang, Y. H., Lin, C. P., and Tso, I. M. (2016). Did a Miocene-Pliocene island isolation sequence structure diversification of funnel web spiders in the Taiwan-Ryukyu Archipelago? Journal of Biogeography, 43(5), 991–1003.
  • Brown, R. M. Su, Y. C., Barger, B., Siler, C. D., Diesmos, A. C., and Blackburn, D. C. (2016). Phylogeny of the island archipelago frog genus Sanguirana: another endemic Philippine radiation that diversified ‘Out-of-Palawan’. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 94, 531-536.
  • Su, Y. C. and Smith, D. R. (2014). Evolution of host use, group-living, and foraging behaviors in kleptoparasitic spiders: molecular phylogeny of the Argyrodinae (Araneae: Theridiidae). Invertebrate Systematics, 28(4), 415-431. Invited manuscript for special issue of post-International Congress of Arachnology, 2013, Taiwan.
  • Su, Y. C., Wang, J. F., Villanueva, R. J. T., Nuñeza, O., and Lin, C. P. (2014). Hopping out of Mindanao: Miocene-Pliocene geological processes and cross-island dispersal as major drivers of diversity for Philippine treehoppers. Journal of Biogeography, 41(7), 1277-1290.
  • Gonzalez, P., Su, Y. C., Siler, S. D., Barley, A., Diesmos, A. C., and Brown, R. M. (2014). Archipelago colonization by ecologically dissimilar rainforest tree frogs: evaluating the hypothesis of common evolutionary history of geographical diffusion in islands of Southeast Asia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 72, 35-41.
  • Su, Y. C., Chang, Y. H, Smith, D. R., Zhu, M. S., Kuntner, M., and Tso, I. M. (2011). Biogeography and speciation patterns of the golden orb spider genus Nephila (Araneae: Nephilidae) in Asia. Zoological Science, 28(1): 47-55.
  • Cobbold, S. M. and Su, Y. C. (2010). The host becomes dinner: possible use of Cyclosa as a nuptial gift by Argyrodes in a colonial web. The Journal of Arachnology, 38(1),132-134.
  • Su, Y. C., Chang, Y. H., Lee, S. C., and Tso, I. M. (2007). Phylogeography of the giant wood spider (Nephila pilipes, Araneae) from Asian–Australian regions. Journal of Biogeography, 34(1), 177-191.
  • Lee, J. W., Jiang, L., Su, Y. C., and Tso, I. M. (2004). Is Central Mountain Ridge a geographic barrier to giant wood spider Nephila pilipes (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) in Taiwan? A population genetic approach. Zoological Studies, 43(1), 112-122.
  • Lin, H. C., Su, Y. C., and Su, S. H. (2002). A comparative study of osmoregulation in four fiddler crabs (Ocypodidae: Uca). Zoological Science, 19(6), 643-650.

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