1) wen-dong xian?, nimaichand salam?, meng-meng li?, en-min zhou, yi-rui yin, ze-tao liu, yu-zhen ming, xiao-tong zhang, geng wu, lan liu, min xiao, hong-chen jiang, wen-jun li*. network-directed efficient isolation of previously uncultivated chloroflexi and related bacteria in hot spring microbial mats. npj biofilms microbiomes. 2020 apr 29;6(1):20. doi: 10.1038/s41522-020-0131-4.
2) zulpiya musa?, jinbiao ma?, dilfuza egamberdieva, osama abdalla abdelshafy mohamad?, gulsumay abaydulla, yong-hong liu, wen-jun li* & li li*. diversity and antimicrobial potential of cultivable endophytic actinobacteria associated with medicinal plant thymus roseus. front microbiol, 2020, mar 12. 11:191. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00191.
3) nimaichand salam?, jian-yu jiao?, xiao-tong zhang?, wen-jun li*. update in the classification of higher ranks in the phylum actinobacteria. int. j. syst. evol. microbiol. 2020 feb;70(2):1331-1355. doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.003920.
4) abdelshafy mohamad oa*, ma j-b, liu y-h, zhang d, hua s, bhute s, hedlund bp, li w-j* and li l*. beneficial endophytic bacterial populations associated with medicinal plant thymus vulgaris alleviate salt stress and confer resistance to fusarium oxysporum. front. plant sci. 2020, 11:47. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00047
5) dai-di chen, ye tian, jian-yu jiao, xiao-tong zhang, yong-guang zhang, zhou-yan dong, meng-jie xiong, min xiao, wen-sheng shu*, wen-jun li*. comparative genomics analysis of nitriliruptoria reveals the genomic differences and salt adaptation strategies. extremophiles. 2020. 24(2), 249-264. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00792-019-01150-3
6) zhou-yan dong?; manik prabhu narsing rao?; hong-fei wang?; bao-zhu fang; yong-hong liu; li li; min xiao* and wen-jun li*; transcriptomic analysis of two endophytes involved in enhancing salt stress ability of arabidopsis thaliana, science of the total environment. 2019, 686:107-117.
7) zheng-shuang hua?; yu-lin wang?; paul n evans?; yan-ni qu; kian mau goh; yang-zhi rao; yan-ling qi; yu-xian li; min-jun huang; jian-yu jiao; ya-ting chen; yan-ping mao; wen-sheng shu; wael hozzein; brian p. hedlund; gene w tyson*; tong zhang*; wen-jun li*; insights into the ecological roles and evolution of methyl-coenzyme m reductase containing hot spring archaea. nature communications, 2019, 10(1):4574.
8) qing liu; zhiyong liu; changli sun; mingwei shao; junying ma; xiaoyi wei; tianyu zhang;* wenjun li;* jianhua ju*; discovery and biosynthesis of atrovimycin, an antitubercular and antifungal cyclodepsipeptide featuring ortho-dihydroxylated cinnamic acyl chain, organic letters, 2019, 21(8):2634-2638.
9) lei dong; yi shen; xian-feng hou; wen-jun li*; and gong-li tang*; discovery of druggability-improved analogues by investigation of the ll-d49194α1 biosynthetic pathway, org. lett., 2019, 21(7): 2322–2325.
10) zheng-shuang hua#; yan-ni qu#; qiyun zhu; en-min zhou; yan-ling qi; yi-rui yin; yang-zhi rao; ye tian; yu-xian li; lan liu; cindy j. castelle; brian p. hedlund;wen-sheng shu; rob knight; wen-jun li*; genomic inference of the metabolism and evolution of the archaeal phylum aigarchaeota, nature communications, 2018, 9:2832.