研究组名称：理论生态学研究组 （英文）
   研究组长：陶毅 研究员
   组员：邓玲玲（助理研究员），季婷（助理研究员），李聪（研究助理）
   博士研究生：吴佳佳，郑秀灯
   硕士研究生：何巧巧，王百桦，张加华
   联合培养研究生：王世畅，张博宇，杨小茜

   研究方向：
       1. 进化博弈动力学与理论种群进化生物学: 进化博弈理论是解释动 物行为进化机制的一个理论体系，其核心概念是进化稳定对策。目 前我们的研究主要侧重于有限种群的随机进化博弈动力学，以及具 有脉冲扰动的进化博弈动力学。
       2. 计算生物学: 基因表达的随机动力学模式是目前计算生物学最 重要的理论问题之一。在这一领域内我们所感兴趣的问题是基因表 达的调控与基因表达的统计学特征之间的关系。
       3. 人类行为生态学

   在研项目：
       国家重点基础研究发展规划（973计划）课题 --- 鼠害区域性暴发成灾规律与大尺度预测预报模式（课题主持人 陶毅）
       中科院“百人计划”择优支持项目

　人才培养：
　　　博士后1名，博士研究生2名，硕士研究生3名，联合培养研究生3名

　国际合作：
　　　Dr. Ross Cressman, Professor in Evolutionary Game Dynamics, Department of Mathematics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada
　　　Dr. Sabin Lessard, Professor in Theoretical Population Biology, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada

   代表性论文：

1. Zhang B-Y., Li C., Cressman R. and Tao Y. (2009) Diffusion approximation of stochastic evolutionary game dynamics in finite population (in preparing).
2. Zhang B-Y., Cressman R. and Tao Y. (2009) Cooperation and Stability through periodic impulses, submitted to PLoS ONE (under review).
3. Zhang B-Y., Wang S-C. Cressman R. and Tao Y. (2009) Periodic impulses and frequency-dependent selection: A one-locus, two-allele and two-phenotype model, submitted to J. Theor. Biol. (under review).
4. Wu J-J., Zhang B-Y., Zhou Z-X., He Q-Q., Zheng X-D., Cressman R. and Tao Y. (2009) Costly punishment does not always increase cooperation, Proc. Natal. Acad. Sci. USA (in press).
5. Zheng, X. and Tao, Y. (2008) Effects of bidirectional regulation on noises in gene networks, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. (in press).
6. Zhan X-J., Zheng X-D., Bruford M., Wei F-W. and Tao Y. (2009) A new method for quantifying genotyping errors for noninvasive studies, Conservational Genetics, DOI 10.1007/s10592-009-9950-9.
7. Zhan X-J., Tao Y., Li M., Zhang Z-J., Goossens B., Chen Y-P., and Wang H-J., Bruford M. and Wei F-W. (2009) Accurate population size estimates are vital parameters for conserving the giant panda, Ursus, 20, 56-62.
8. Ji T., Zhang B-Y., Sun Y-H. and Tao, Y. (2009) Evolutionary dynamics of fearfulness and boldness, J. Theor. Biol. 256, 637-643.
9. Tao Y., Cressman R., Zhang B-Y. and Zheng X-D. (2008) Stochastic fluctuations in frequency-dependent selection: A one-locus and two-phenotype model, Theor. Popul. Biol. 74, 263-272.
10. Wang S-C., Zhang B-Y., Li Z-Q., Cressman R. and Tao Y. (2008) Evolutionary game dynamics with impulsive effects, J. Theor. Biol. 254, 384-389.
11. Zheng X-D. and Tao Y. (2008) Additivity of noise in a protein cascade, J. Chem. Physics, 128, 165104
12. Wei Y-H., Liu Y. Wang J., Tao Y. and Dai, J-Y. (2008) Toxicogenomic analysis of the hepatic effects of perfluorooctanoic acid on rare minnows (Gobiocypris rarus), Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 226, 285-279.
13. Tao Y. and Cressman R. (2007) Stochastic fluctuations through intrinsic noise in evolutionary game dynamics, Bull. Math. Biol. 69, 1377-1399.
14. Tao Y., Zeng X-D. and Sun Y-H. (2007) Effects of feedback regulation on stochastic gene expression, J. Theor. Biol. 247, 827-836.
15. Zhang B-Y., Zhang Z-B., Li Z-Q., Tao Y. (2007) Stability analysis of a two-species model with transitions between population interactions, J. Theor. Biol. 248, 145-153.
16. Zhang Z-B., Tao Y. and Li Z-Q. (2007) Factors affecting hare-lynx dynamics in the classic time series of the Hudson Bay Company, Canada, Climate Research, 34, 83-89.
17. Zhang Z-B., Li Z-Q., Tao Y., Chen M., Wen X., Xu L., Tian H. and Stenseth N.C. (2007) Relationship between increase rate of human plague in China, Integrative Zoology, 2, 144-153.
18. Xu B-L. and Tao Y. (2006) External noise and feedback regulation: Steady-state statistics of auto-regulatory genetic network, J. Theor. Biol. 243, 214-221.
19. Tao Y., Jia Y. and Dewey T. G. (2005) Stochastic fluctuations in gene expression far from equilibrium: -expansion and linear noise approximation, J. Chem. Phys. 122,124108.
20. Tao Y. (2004) Intrinsic noise, gene regulation and steady-state statistics in a two-gene network, J. Theor. Biol. 231, 563-568.
21. Tao Y. (2004). Intrinsic and external noise in an auto-regulatory genetic network, J. Theor. Biol. 229, 147-156.
22. Tao Y. and Lessard S. (2002). Frequency-dependent selection in sexual family-structured populations, J. Theor. Biol. 217, 525-534.
23. Tao Y. and Lessard S. (2000). Fundamental theorem of natural selection and frequency-dependent selection: Analysis of the matrix game diploid model, J. Theor. Biol., 206, 17-25.
24. Tao Y., Lessard S. and Lemire M. (2000). Evolutionarily stable strategy in sex- and frequency-dependent selection model, J. Theor. Biol. 204, 191-200.
25. Cressman R. and Tao Y. (2000) The discrete-time two-species ESS concept, Selection, 1-3, 23-32.
26. Lemire M., Lessard S. and Tao Y. (2000). Evolutionary stability in two-sex two-locus models, Selection, 1-3, 193-203.
27. Tao Y., Cressman R. and Brooks B. (1999). Nonlinear frequency-dependent selection at a single locus with two alleles and two phenotypes, J. Math. Biol. 39, 283-308.
28. Tao Y. (1998). Frequency-dependent selection: a two-phenotype, two-allele, single-locus, two-species diploid model, J. Theor. Biol. 191, 289-294.
29. Tao Y., Yang Q-S., Jiang Z-G. and Wang Z-W. (1997). Evolutionarily stable strategy, stable state, periodic cycle and chaos in a simple discrete time two-phenotype model, J. Theor. Biol. 188, 21-27.
30. Tao Y. and Wang Z-W. (1997). Effect of time delay and evolutionarily stable strategy, J.Theor. Biol. 187, 111-116.
31. Liebovitch L.S., Tao Y., Todorov A.T. and Levine L. (1996). Is there an error correcting code in the base sequence in DNA? Biophys. J., 71, 1539-1544.
32. Tao Y. and Wang Z-W. (1995). Frequency- and Density-dependent selection in the diploid population with only two pure strategies, J. Theor. Biol. 176, 317-323.
33. Tao Y. and Wang Z-W. (1994). The necessary and sufficient conditions of density-dependent evolutionary stable strategy (DDESS) in the two phenotype model, J. Theor. Biol., 167, 257-262.
34. Tao Y. and Zhao S-L. (1992) Resource-dependent selection, J. Theor. Biol. 159, 387-395.