(1) Zhao S., Li S., Zhang C., Tang Z., Zhang A., Huang C., Cheng K., Yu T., Yan Y., & Wen, Z. (2026). Fibroblast-directed melanocyte recruitment via Cxcl12-Cxcr4 axis promotes post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation and skin barrier protection in zebrafish. Journal of Genetics and Genomics, 53(7), 1305–1318.
(2) Huang, C.*, Liu, S.*, Li, W.*, Zhao, S.*, Ren, X., Zhuo, F., Zhang, K., Li, X., Wu, J., Zhu, Z., Chen, C., Zhang, W., & Yu, B. (2025). Paxbp1 Is Indispensable for the Maintenance of Epidermal Homeostasis. The Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 145(4), 864–875.e5. (*equal contribution)
(3) Zhao S*, Zhang A*, Zhu H, Wen Z. (2022) The ETS transcription factor Spi2 regulates hematopoietic cell development in zebrafish. Development, 2022; 149 (19) (*equal contribution)
(4) Zhao S*, Feng S*, Tian Y*, Wen Z. (2022) Hemogenic and aortic endothelium arise from a common hemogenic angioblast precursor and are specified by the Etv2 dosage. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Mar 29;119(13):e2119051119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2119051119. (*equal contribution)
(5) Cheng K, Thi H, Cao Y, Feng S, Liang J, Zhao S, Yin J, Dong T, Wen Z (2026) Single-cell Transcriptomics Reveals the Heterogeneous Landscape of Innate Lymphoid Cells in Zebrafish. Cell Reports, in press.
(6) Feng S, Qu R, He Y, Huang T, Wang Y, Trinh H, Cheng K, Zhao S, Huang Y, Zhu H, He S, Wen Z (2026). Bona fide hematopoietic stem cells in zebrafish originate from the supra-intestinal artery. Cell, in revision.
(7) Wu Y, Guo W, Kuang H, Wu X, Wang Y, Zhao S, Wen Z, Yu T (2025) Pu.1/Spi1 dosage controls the turnover and maintenance of microglia in zebrafish and mammals eLife 14:RP105788
(8) Zhang A, Lu J, Feng S, Yu H, Yu T, Zhao S, Chen K, Huang Z, Xu J, Qu JY, Wen Z. (2023) Fli1 acts in parallel with Pu.1 to control macrophage and neutrophil fate in zebrafish. Journal of Genetics and Genomics. 2023 Nov 7:S1673-8527(23)00237-0.
(9) Lou L, Yu T, Dai Y, Zhao S, Feng S, Xu J, Wen Z. (2022) Mafba and Mafbb regulate microglial colonization of zebrafish brain via controlling chemotaxis receptor expression. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Sep 27;119(39):e2203273119.
(10) Yu AX, Xiao J, Zhao S, Kong XP, Kwan KK, Zheng BZ, Wu KQ, Dong TT, Tsim KW. (2021) Biological Evaluation and Transcriptomic Analysis of Corylin as an Inhibitor of Osteoclast Differentiation. Int J Mol Sci. 2021 Mar 29;22(7):3540.
(11) Tian Y, Xu J, Feng S, He S, Zhao S, Zhu L, Jin W, Dai Y, Luo L, Qu JY, Wen Z.(2017) The first wave of T lymphopoiesis in zebrafish arises from aorta endothelium independent of hematopoietic stem cells. J Exp Med. 2017 Nov 6; 214(11): 3347-3360.