Yunnan Key Laboratory for Palaeobiology
Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan, CHINA 650091
telephone:+86 (871) 65035365
email:xghou@ynu.edu.cn
Education
PhD, Uppsala University, Sweden, 1992 - 1997. Major: Paleontology.
MSc, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS, China, 1978 - 1981. Major: Paleontology.
BSc, Nanjing University, China, 1973 - 1977. Major: Geology.
Experience
09/2000–Present: Professor (research), Yunnan Key Laboratory for Palaeobiology, Yunnan University, China.
09/1997–09/2000: Professor (research), Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS, China.
06/1995–12/1995: Visiting scholar, Geology Department, University of Leicester, UK.
05/1992–05/1997: PhD student (promoted to Associate Professor in 1992 and Professor in 1994), Department of Paleontology, Uppsala University, Sweden.
09/1990–08/1998: Visiting scholar, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Sweden.
09/1981–09/1990: Research assistant, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS, China.
09/1978–09/1981: MSc student, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS, China.
02/1977–08/1978: Lecturer, Geology Department, Nanjing University, China.
09/1973–02/1977: BSc student, Geology Department, Nanjing University, China.
Membership in professional associations
Former director of Yunnan Key Laboratory for Palaeobiology (YKLP)
Former vice President of theInternational Palaeontological Association (IPA)
Member of Academic Committee, Yunnan University
Member of Academic Degrees Committee, Yunnan University
Editorial Board Member of Acta Palaeotologica Sinica
Editorial Board Member of Journal of Stratigraphy
Standing Committee member of People's Political Consultative Conference, Yunnan Province
Government Counselor, Yunnan Province
Grants (in recent 5 years)
2008–2011: NSFC-Major Grant (40730211).
2014–2017: NSFC-Yunnan Joint Grant (U1302232).
2014–2017: NSFC-General Grant (41372031).
Awards
1997, Qiu Shi Group Award, Qiu Shi Science & Technologies Foundation (Hong Kong).
1997, Grand prize of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
1997, Honorary title of China youth experts with outstanding contribution, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
1998, Top 10 Scientific and technological achievement award, Nanjing.
1999, Special government allowances of the State Council.
2003, First-class Award of Natural Sciences, China.
2004, Science and Technology Progress Award, Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation.
2004, National May lst Labour Medal.
2005, National advanced worker.
2005, Yunnan advanced worker.
2006, 1st Prosper Yunnan Talent Award.
2008, National foreign intelligence contribution award.
2011, Grand prize of Natural Sciences, Yunnan science and technology award.
2012, Outstanding Contribution Award, Yunnan science and technology award.
Representative Publications
Books
Hou Xianguang, Siveter, D.J., Siveter, D.J., Aldrige, R.J., Cong Peiyun, Gabbott, S.E., Ma Xiaoya, Purnell, M.A., Williams, M., 2017. The Cambrian fossils of Chengjiang,China - The flowering of earlyanimal life.2nd Edition, Blackwell Science.
Hou Xianguang, Aldrige, R.J., Bergström, J., Siveter, D.J., Siveter, D.J. & Feng Xianghong: The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China. The Flowering of Early Animal Life. Blackwell Publicatioin, 2004, Oxford.
Hou Xianguang, Siveter, D. J., Williams, M. & Feng Xianghong: A monograph of the Bradoriid arthropods from the Lower Cambrian of SW China. Transaction of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, Vol. 92, The Rcotland Foundation, 2002, Edinburgh, UK.
Hou Xianguang, Bergström, J.: Arthropods from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, southwest China. Fossils and Strata, No. 45, Scandinavian University Press, 1997, Oslo, Norway.
Hou Xianguang, Bergström, J., Wang Haifeng, Feng Xianghong, Chen Ailin: The Chengjiang fauna: exceptionally well-preserved fauna from 530 million years ago. Yunnan Science and Technology, 1999, Kunming. (In Chinese with English Summary)
Peer-reviewed papers
1. Hou Xianguang, Williams M. , Gabbott S., Siveter D. J., Siveter D. J. , Cong Peiyun, Ma Xiaoya and Sansom R., 2016: A new species of the artiopodan arthropod Acanthomeridion from the lower Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte, China, and the phylogenetic significance of the genus. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology (in press).
2. Hou Xianguang , Williams, M., Siveter, D. J., Siveter D. J., Gabbott, S., Holwell D. & Harvey T. H.P., 2014: A chancelloriid-like metazoan from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte, China. Scientific Reports 4:7340; DOI:10.1038/srep07340。
3. Hou Xianguang, R.J. Aldridge, D.J. Siveter, D.J. Siveter, M. Williams, J. Zalasiewicz & Ma Xiaoya, 2011: An early Cambrian hemichordate zooid. Current Biology, Vol. 21, 1–5.
4. Hou Xianguang, M. Williams, D. J. Siveter, D. J. Siveter, R. J. Aldridge and R. S. Sansom, 2010: phylogenetic relationships of Bradoriida Kunyangella and Kunmingella: significance for the Soft-part anatomy of the Early Cambrian bivalved arthropods. Proc. R. Soc. B 2010 277, 1835–1841.
5. Hou Xianguang, Siveter, D. J., Aldridge, R. J. and Siveter, D.J., 2009. A new arthropod in chain-like associations from the Chengjiang Lagerstätte (Lower Cambrian), Yunnan, China. Palaeontology, 52(4), 951–961.
6. Hou Xianguang, Clarkson, E. N. K., Yang Jie, Zhang Xiguang, Wu Guangqing, Yuan Zibo, 2009. Appendages of early Cambrian Eoredlichia (Trilobita) from the Chengjiang biota, Yunnan, China. Earth and Environmental Sciences Transaction of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 99, 213–223.
7. Hou Xianguang, Siveter D.J., Aldrige R.J. & Siveter, D.J., 2008: Collective Behavior in an Early Cambrian Arthropod. Science, Vol. 322, 224.
8. Hou Xianguang, Bergström J.，Ma Xiaoya & Zhao Jie, 2006: The Lower Cambrian Phlogites Luo & Hu re-considered. GFF, Vol. 128, 47–51.
9. Hou Xianguang, Bergström J. & Yang Jie, 2006: Distinguishing anomalocaridids from arthropods and priapulids. Geological Journal, Vol. 41, 259–269.
10. Hou Xianguang, Stanley G.D., Zhao Jie & Ma Xiaoya, 2005: Cambrian anemones with preserved soft tissue from the Chengjiang biota, China. Lethaia, Vol. 38, 193–203.
11. Hou Xianguang, Bergström, J. & Xu Guanghui, 2004: The Lower Cambrian Crustacean Pectocaris from the Chengjiang Bioya, Yunnan, China. Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 78, 700–708.
12. Hou Xianguang, Ma Xioaya, Zhao Jie & Bergström, J. 2004: The lobopodian Paucipodian inermis from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, Yunnan, China. Lethaia, Vol. 37, 235–244.
13. Hou Xianguang, Bergström, J. 2003: The Chengjiang fauna - the oldest preserved animal community. Paleontological Research, Vol.7, 55–70.
14. Hou Xianguang, Aldrige R.J.， Siveter David J.， Siveter, Derek J. & Feng Xianghong, 2002: New evidence on the anatomy and phylogeny of the earliest vertebrates. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B. 269, 1865–1869.
15. Hou Xianguang, 1999: New rare bivalved arthropods from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang Fauna, Yunnan, China. Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 73, 102–116.
16. Hou Xianguang & Bergström, J. 1998: Three additional arthropods from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Fauna, Yunnan, Southwest China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, Vol. 37, 395–405.
17. Hou Xianguang，1997: Lower Cambrian Arthropods from Southwest China. Bradoriids and Chengjiang arthropods. Ph.D. thesis, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
18. Hou Xianguang, Siveter, D. J., Williams, M., Walossek, D. ? Bergström, J. 1996: Appendages of the arthropod Kunmingella from the early Cambrian of China: its bearing on the systematic position of the Bradoriida and the fossil record of the Ostracoda. Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society of London, B 351, 1131–1145.
19. Hou Xianguang, Bergström J. 1995: Cambrian lobopodians - ancestors of extant onychophorans. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 114, 3–19.
20. Hou Xianguang, Bergström, J. & Ahlberg, P., 1995: Anomalocaris and other large animals in the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna of southwest China, Geologiska Foreningens i Stockholm Forhandligar, Vol. 117, 163–183.
21. Hou Xianguang, Bergström, J. 1994: Palaeoscolecid worms may be nematomorphs rather than annelids. Lethaia 27, 11–17.
22. Hou Xianguang, Bergström, J. 1991: The arthropods of the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, with relationship and evlutionary significance. In A. M. Simonetta ? S. Conway Morris (eds.), The early evolutionary significance of problomatic taxa,, 179–187, Camerino, Cabridge Univercity Press, UK.
23. Hou Xianguang, Ramskold, L. ? Bergström, J. 1991: Composition and preservation of the Chengjiang fauna- a Lower Cambrian soft-bodied biota. Zoologica Scripta, Vol. 20, 395–411.
24. Hou Xianguang, 1987: Oldest Cambrian bradoriids from eastern Yunnan. Stratigraphy and Palaeontology of Systemic Boundaries in China, Precambrian and Cambrian Boundary, Vol. 1, 537–545, Nanjing Univercity Publishing House, Nanjing.
25. Hou Xianguang, 1989: Features and signficance of Chengjiang fauna: exceptionally preserved soft-bodied fauna from lowest Cambrian in Yunnan, China. 28th International geological Congress (Washington,D.C), Abstract 2, 75.
26. Aldridge R. J., Hou Xianguang, Siveter David J., Siveter Derek J. & Gabbott S., 2007: Systematic and Phylogenetic Relationships of Vetulicolians. Paleontology, Vol. 50, 131–168.
27. Bergström, J. & Hou Xianguang, 1998: Chengjiang Arthropods and Their Bearing on Early Arthropod Evolution. In G. D. Edgecombe (ed.), Arthropod Fossils and Phylogeny. Chichester, West Sussex, 151–184, New York.
28. Bergström, J. & Hou Xianguang, 2001: Cambrian Onychophora or Xenusians. Zoologischer Anzeiger, Vol. 240, 237–245.
29. Bergström, J. & Hou Xianguang, 2003: Cambrian arthropods: a lesson in convergent evolution. In Legakis A., Sfenthourakis S., Polymeni R. & Thessalou-Legaki M. (eds): The New Panorama of Animal Evolution, Pensoft Publishers, Sofia, 89–96, Moscow.
30. Bergström, J. & Hou Xianguang, 2003: Arthropod origin. Bulletin of Geosciences, Vol. 78, 323–334.
31. Bergström J. & Hou Xianguang, 2005: Early Palaeozoic non-lamellipendian arthropods. In Koenemann S. & Jenner R.A. (eds): Crustacea and Arthropod Ralationships, P. 73–93. Taylor & Francis.
32. Bergström J.，Hou Xianguang & Ulf Hålenius, 2007: Gut contents and feeding in the Cambrian arthropod Naraoia. GFF, Vol. 129, 71–76.
33. Bengtson S. & Hou Xianguang, 2001: The skin of Cambrian chancelloriids. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, Vol. 46, 1–22.
34. Chen Junyuan, Bergström, J., Lindstrom, M., Hou Xianguang, 1991: Fossilized soft-bodied fauna. National Geogrophic Research Exploration, Vol. 7, 8–19.
35. Chen Junyuan, Hou Xianguang & Erdtmann. B. D., 1989: New soft-bodied fossil fauna near the base of the Cambrian System at Chengjiang, eastern Yunnan, China. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Developments in Geoscience, Contribution to 28th International Geological Congress, Washington D.C. USA, 265–278. Science Press, Beijing.
36. Cong Peiyun, Ma Xiaoya, Hou Xianguang, Edgecombe, G. D. & Strausfeld, N. J., 2014: Brain Structure Resolves the Segmental Affinity of Anomalocaridid Appendages. Nature, Vol. 513, 538-542.
37. Cong Peiyun, Hou Xianguang, Aldridge, R. J., Purnell, M. A. & Li Yizhen, 2014: New data on the palaeobiology of the enigmatic yunnanozoans from the Chengjiang Biota, Lower Cambrian, China. Palaeontology, 1-26. doi:10.1111/pala.12117
38. Cong Peiyun, Ma Xiaoya, Hou Xianguang, Edgecombe, G. D. & Strausfeld, N. J., 2014: Cong et al. reply，REPLYING TO G. Mayer, C. Martin, I. S. Oliveira, F. A. Franke & V. Gross Nature 516，E1-E2, Nature 516, E3_E4.
39. Gabbott S. E., Hou Xianguang, Norry M. J. & Siveter D. J. 2004: Preservation of Early Cambrian animals of the Chengjiang biota. Geology, Vol. 32, 901–904.
40. Jin Yugan，Hou Xianguang & Wang Huayu, 1993: Lower Cambrian pediculate lingulids from Yunnan, China. Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 67, 188–198.
41. Liu Yu, Hou Xianguang & Bergström, J., 2007: Chengjiang arthropod Leanchoilia illecebrusa (Hou, 1987) reconsidered. GFF, Vol. 129, 263–272.
42. Liu Yu, Haug J. T., Haug C., Briggs D. E.G. & Hou Xianguang, 2014: A 520 million-year-old chelicerate larva. Nat. Commun. 5:4440 doi: 10.1038/ncomms5440.
43. Liu Yu, Gerhard Scholtz & Hou Xianguang, 2015:. When a 520 million-year-old Chengjiang fossil meets a modern micro-CT – a case study. Scientific Reports 5, 12802; doi: 10.1038/srep12802.
44. Liu Yu, Melze R.R., Haug J.T., Haug C., Briggs D.E.G.., Hornig M., He Yuyang & Hou Xianguang, 2016: Three dimensionally preserved minute larva of a great appendage arthropod from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang biota. PNAS (in Press)
45. Ma Xiaoya, Hou Xianguang, Bergström J., 2009. Morphology of Luolishania longicruris (Lower Cambrian, Chengjiang Lagerstätte, SW China) and the phylogenetic relationships within lobopodians. Arthropod Structure & Development, 38, 271–291.
46. Ma XiaoYa, Hou XianGuang, David Baines, 2010：Phylogeny and Evolutionary Significance of the Vermiform Animals from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte。Science China: Earth Sciences,Vol.53(12),1774–1783.
47. Ma Xiaoya, Hou Xianguang, Gregory D. Edgecombe& Nicholas J. Strausfeld, 2012:Complex brain and optic lobes in an early Cambrian arthropod, Nature, Vol.490, 258-261.
48. Ma Xiaoya, Hou Xianguang, Richard J. Aldridge , David J. Siveter , Derek J. Siveter, Sarah E. Gabbott , Mark A. Purnell, Andrew R. Parker, Gregory D. Edgecombe, 2012: Morphology of Cambrian lobopodian eyes from the Chengjiang Lagerstätte and their evolutionary significance, Arthropod Structure & Development, 41, 495-504.
49. Ma Xiaoya, Edgecombe G. D., Legg D. A. & Hou Xianguang, 2013: The morphology and phylogenetic position of the Cambrian lobopodian Diania cactiformis. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 29 May 2013 (On line).
50. Ma Xiaoya, Cong Peiyun, Hou Xianguang, Edgecombe G. D. & Strausfeld, N. J., 2014: An exceptionally preserved arthropod cardiovascular system from the early Cambrian. Nat. Commun. 5:3560 doi: 10.1038/ncomms4560.
51. Ma Xiaoya, Aldridge, R. J., Siveter, D.J., Siveter, D.J., Hou Xianguang & Edgecombe, G. D., 2014: A new exceptionally preserved Cambrian priapulid from the Chengjiang Lagerstätte. Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 88(2), p. 371-384.
52. Ma Xiaoya, Edgecombe G. D., Hou Xianguang, Goral, T., Strausfeld, N. J., 2015. Preservational Pathways of Corresponding Brains of a Cambrian Euarthropod. Current Biology, 25(22): 2969–2975.
53. Monge-Nájera J. & Hou Xianguang, 1999: 500 Millones de Aňos de Evolución: Onicóforos, los Primeros Animales due Caminaron (Onychophora). Evolución y Filogenia de Arthropoda. Bol. S. E. A., No. 26, 171–176.
54. Monge-Nájera J. & Hou Xianguang, 2000: Disparity, decimation and the Cambrian “explosion”: comparison of early Cambrian and Present faunal communities with emphasis on velvet worms (Onychophora). Revista de Biologia Tropical, Vol. 48(2000), 333–351.
55. Nicholas Strausfeld, Ma Xiaoya, Gregory D Edgecombe, Richard A Fortey, Michael F Land, Liu Yu, Cong Peiyun & Hou Xianguang, 2015: Arthropod Eyes: The Early Cambrian Fossil Record and Divergent Evolution of Visual Systems. Arthropod Structure & Development.
56. Ramskold, L. Hou Xianguang, 1991: New early Cambrian animal and onychophoran affinities of enigmatic metazoans. Nature 351, 225–228.
57. Rigby, J. K. Hou Xianguang, 1995: Lower Cambrian demosponges and hecactinellid sponges from Yunnan, China. Journal of Paleonlogy, Vol. 69, 1009–1019.
58. Robert R. Gaines, Emma U. Hammarlund, Hou Xianguang, Qi Changshi, Sarah E. Gabbottf, ZhaoYuanlong Peng Jin, and Donald E. Canfieldb, 2012: Mechanism for Burgess Shale-type preservation. PNAS . vol. 109 no. 14 .5180–5184.
59. Strausfeld Nicholas, Ma Xiaoya, Gregory D Edgecombe, Richard A Fortey, Michael F Land, Yu Liu, Cong Peiyun & Hou Xianguang, 2015: Arthropod Eyes: The Early Cambrian Fossil Record and Divergent Evolution of Visual Systems. Arthropod Structure & Development.
60. Tanaka G., Hou Xianguang, Ma Xiaoya, Edgecombe G.D., Strausfeld N.J., 2013: Chelicerate Neural ground pattern in a Cambrian ‘great appendage’ arthropod. Nature，Vol. 502, p. 364-367.
61. Yang Xianfeng, Olev Vinn, Hou Xianguang & Tian Xinglei，2013： New tubicolous problematic fossil with some “lophophorate” affinities from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota in South China. GFF, Vol. 135(2), p. 184-190.
62. Zhang Xiguang, Hou Xianguang & Christian C. E., 2003: Evidence of lophophore diversity in Early Cambrian Brachiopoda. Proc. R. Soc. Lond B 270, 65–68.
63. Zhang Xiguang & Hou Xianguang, 2004: Evidence for a single median fin-fold and tail in the Lower Cambrian vertebrate, Haikouichthys ercaicunensis. J. Evol. Biol. Vol. 17, 1162–1166.
64. Zhang Xiguang, Hou Xianguang & Bergström, J., 2006: Early Cambrian priapulid worms buried with their lined burrows. Geological Magazine, Vol. 143, 743–748.
65. Zhang Xiguang & Hou Xianguang, 2007: Gravitational Constraints on the Burial of the Chengjiang Fossils. Palaios, Vol. 22, 448–453.
66. Zhang Xiguang, Bergström J., Bromley R.G.. & Hou Xianguang, 2007: Diminutive trace fossils in the Chengjiang Lagerstätte. Terra Nova, Vol. 19, 407–412.
67. Hou Xianguang, 1987a. Two new arthropods from Lower Cambrian, Chengjiang, Eastern Yunnan. ActaPalaeotologicaSinica, 26: 236–256.(In Chinese with English Summary)
68. Hou Xianguang, 1987b. Three new large arthropods from Lower Cambrian, Chengjiang, Eastern Yunnan. ActaPalaeotologicaSinica, 26: 272–285.(In Chinese with English Summary)
69. Hou Xianguang, 1987c. Early Cambrian large bivalved arthropods from Chengjiang, Eastern Yunnan. ActaPalaeotologicaSinica, 26: 286–298.(In Chinese with English Summary)
70. Hou Xianguang, 2001. The big bang of life evolution – Chengjiang biota and the rise of metazoans. Science Monthly, 32: 530–539.(In Chinese)
71. Hou Xianguang, 2002. Yunnan Chengjiang biota. 80th Anniversary of Geological Society of China (Academic collection), 54–61, Beijing. (In Chinese)
72. Hou Xianguang, Sun Weiguo, 1988. Discovery of Chengjiang Fauna at Meishucun,Jinning, Yunnan. ActaPalaeotologicaSinica, 27: 1–12.(In Chinese with English Summary)
73. Hou Xianguang, Chen Junyuan, 1989a. Early Cambrian tentacled worm-like animals (Facivermis gen. nov.) from Chengjiang, Yunnan. ActaPalaeotologicaSinica, 28: 32–41.(In Chinese with English Summary)
74. Hou Xianguang, Chen Junyuan, 1989b. Early Cambrian arthropod-annelid intermediate sea animal, Luolishania gen. nov. from Chengjiang, Yunnan. ActaPalaeotologicaSinica, 28: 207–214.(In Chinese with English Summary)
75. Hou Xianguang, Chen Junyuan, Lu Haozhi, 1989. Early Cambrian new arthropods from Chengjiang, Yunnan. ActaPalaeotologicaSinica, 28: 42–57.(In Chinese with English Summary)
76. Hou Xianguang, Chen Ailin, 1999. The evolution of life. Yunnan Science and Technology Press, 28–76, Kunming.(In Chinese)
77. Hou Xianguang, Bergström J., 2006. Dinocaridida: Are they abnormal arthropods or arthropod-like vermes? Biological origin, radiation and diversity evolution - the inspirations from the Chinese fossil record. Beijing Science Press, 139–158(In Chinese), 847–850 (In English), Beijing.
78. Hou Xianguang, Feng Xianghong, 1999. Chengjiang Lagerstäte. The Biological Bulletin, 34(12): 6–8. (In Chinese)
79. Hou Xianguang, Yang Jie, 2008. Ancient Marine ecological communities. Discovery of Nature, (1)15–21.(In Chinese)
80. Hou Xianguang, Cong Peiyun&Li Yizhen, 2009. On the taphonomy and phylogenetic relationships of yunnanozoans.ActaPalaeotologicaSinica, 48(3): 402-413. (In Chinese with English Abstract)
81. Sun Weiguo, Hou Xianguang, 1987a. Early Cambrian medusae from Chengjiang, Yunnan, China. ActaPalaeotologicaSinica, 26:257–271.(In Chinese with English Summary)
82. Sun Weiguo, Hou Xianguang, 1987b. Early Cambrian worms from Chengjiang, Yunnan, China: Maotianshania gen. nov.. ActaPalaeotologicaSinica, 26:299–307.(In Chinese with English Summary)
83. Chen Junyuan, Hou Xianguang, Lu Haozhi, 1989a. Early Cambrian netted scale-bearing worm-like sea animal. ActaPalaeotologicaSinica, 28: 1–16.(In Chinese with English Summary)
84. Chen Junyuan, Hou Xianguang, Lu Haozhi, 1989b. Lower Cambrian leptomitids (Demospongea), Chengjiang, Yunnan. ActaPalaeotologicaSinica, 28: 17–31.(In Chinese with English Summary)
85. Chen Junyuan, Hou Xianguang, Lu Haozhi, 1989c. Early Cambrian hock glass-like rare sea animal Dinomischus (Entoprocta) and its ecological features. Acta Palaeotologica Sinica, 28: 58–71.(In Chinese with English Summary)
86. Chen Junyuan, Hou Xianguang, Li Guoxiang, 1990. New Lower Cambrian Demosponges - Quadrolaminiella gen. nov. from Chengjiang, Yunnan. Acta Palaeotologica Sinica, 29: 402–414.(In Chinese with English Summary)
87. Yang Jie, Hou Xianguang, Dong Wei, 2008. Restudy of Guangweicaris Luo, Fu et Hu, 2007 from the Lower Cambrian Canglangpu Formation in Kunming Area. Acta Palaeotologica Sinica, 47: 115–122.(In Chinese with English Summary)
88. Yang Jie, Hou Xianguang, Cong Peiyun, Dong Wei, Zhang Yanxia & Luo Maobin, 2010. A new vetulicoliid from the lower Cambrian, Kunming, Yunnan. Acta Palaeotologica Sinica, 49(1): 54-63.(In Chinese with English Summary)
89. Zhang Wentang, Hou Xianguang, 1985. Preliminary notes on the occurrence of the unusual trilobite Naraoia in Asia. Acta Palaeotologica Sinica, 24: 591–595.(In Chinese with English Summary)
Conference Abstracts
1. Hou Xianguang, Clarkson, E. N. K., Yang Jie, Zhang Xiguang, Wu Guangqing & Yuan Zibo, 2009: Appendages of early Cambrian Eoredlichia (Trilobita) from the Chengjiang biota, Yunnan, China. In Smith M., O’Brien L. & Caron J., International Conference on the Cambrian Explosion, Abstract volume, 77.
2. Hou Xianguang, Clarkson, E. N. K., Yang Jie, Zhang Xiguang, Wu Guangqing & Yuan Zibo, 2009: Appendages of early Cambrian Eoredlichia (Trilobita) from the Chengjiang biota, Yunnan, China. In Smith M., O’Brien L. & Caron J., International Conference on the Cambrian Explosion, Abstract volume, 77.
3. Hou Xianguang, Arthropods of the Chengjiang fauna, 1989, The early evolution of Metazoa and the significance of problematic taxa, Camerino University, Italy.
4. Hou Xianguang, 1993. The arthropod Naraoia from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang Fauna, The Annual Meeting of Palaeontological Association of Sweden, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
5. Hou Xianguang & Bergström, J., 1995. The Chengjiang Fauna: A clear window to Early Metazoan Structure，International Cambrian Explosion Symposium, Nanjing.
6. Hou Xianguang, Bergström, J. & Ahlberg. P. 1995. Anomalocaridids from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang Fauna of southwest China, International Cambrian Explosion Symposium, Nanjing.
7. Hou Xianguang, Earthshaking Discovery, Human Treasure, 2001, An International Symposium on exploring the history of life on the earth: Paleontology in China during the last 15 years, Beijing.
8. Hou Xianguang, 2001. The Earky Cambrian Chengjiang Fauna in Yunnan, China: the Oldest Animals on Earth, The 17th International Symposium in Conjunction with Award of the International Prize for Biology: The Origin and Early Evolution of Metazoa. Kyoto University，Japan
9. Stanley G. D., Haddock S. H. D., Hou Xianguang & Chen Ailin, 2009: Soft-bodied gelatinous fossils (Cnidaria/Ctenophora) from the Lower Cambrian, Chengjiang biota, Yunnan Province, China. In Smith M., O’Brien L. & Caron J., International Conference on the Cambrian Explosion, Abstract volume, 57–58.
10. Cong Peiyun, Hou Xianguang, Li Yizhen and Yang Jie, 2010. The segmentation of yunnanozoans. The Third International Palaeontological Congress (Abstract volume). 71.
11. Ma Xiaoya, Hou Xianguang, Aldridge, Richard, Siveter, David and Siveter, Derek，2010. Evidence of Possible Parasitic Worms from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstäte. The Third International Palaeontological Congress (Abstract volume). 257.
12. Cong Peiyun & Hou Xianguang, 2009: A New anomalocaridid from the Chengjiang biota. In Smith M., O’Brien L. & Caron J., International Conference on the Cambrian Explosion, Abstract volume, 26–27.
13. Gaines R. R., Hammarlund E., Canfield D. E., Hou Xianguang & Gabbott S. E., 2009: Evidence for the mechanism of Burgess Shale-type preservation from the Chengjiang scientific drilling project. In Smith M., O’Brien L. & Caron J., International Conference on the Cambrian Explosion, Abstract volume, 31–32.
14. Hammarlund E., Gaines R. R., Canfield D. E., Hou Xianguang & Bengtson S., 2009: Water column chemistry at Chengjiang. In Smith M., O’Brien L. & Caron J., International Conference on the Cambrian Explosion, Abstract volume, 34–35.
15. Yang Xianfeng & Hou Xianguang, 2009: The oldest known example of trilobite ecdysis (Chengjiang biota, Early Cambrian). In Smith M., O’Brien L. & Caron J., International Conference on the Cambrian Explosion, Abstract，volume, 96–97.
16. Hou Xianguang, 1999:Chengjiang Fauna – An animal world from 530 million years ago. The 1st Academic Annual Meeting of the China association for science and technology, Hangzhou. (In Chinese)
17. Hou Xianguang, 2002. Chengjiang Fauna, Yunnan. 80th Academic Annual Meeting of Geological Society of China, Beijing. (In Chinese)
18. Hou Xianguang, 2009. Arthropods from Chengjiang Fauna.10th National Congress and 25th Academic Annual Meeting of Palaeontologic Society of China (Abstract Volume), 25-26. (In Chinese)
19. Cong Peiyun & Hou Xianguang, 2009. Morphological disparity of the Chengjianganomalocaridids.10th National Congress and 25th Academic Annual Meeting of Palaeontologic Society of China (Abstract Volume),26. (In Chinese)
20. Yang Xianfeng& Hou Xianguang, 2009.The visual system of early Palaeozoic Chengjiang Fauna.10th National Congress and 25th Academic Annual Meeting of Palaeontologic Society of China (Abstract Volume),26-27. (In Chinese)
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Students Advised
MSc
Guang-hui Xu (1999-2002)
Xiao-ya Ma (2002-2005)
Yu Liu (2003-2006)
Zi-boYuan (2004-2007)
Sheng Hu (2005-2008)
Sun Yu (2006-2009)
Yan-xia Zhang (2006-2009)
Jin Guo (2007-2010)
Yi-zhen Li (2008-2011)
Xing-lei Tian (2009-2012)
Yu-jing Li (2010-2013)
Ke Sun (2011-2014)
Lian-xiang Zhang (2011-2014)
Jun Zhao (2012-2015)
Cheng-hang Du (2013-2016)
Xiao-han Chen (2013-2016)
Di Wu (2014-2017)
Ting Zhao (2015-xxxx)
PhD
Ai-lin Chen (2009-2015)
Yu-yang He (2012-2018)
Yu-jing Li (2013-2018)
Hong Chen (2015-xxxx)
Xiao-han Chen (2016-xxxx)
(Updated: 14 December 2017)