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Refereed Articles

  1. Hung, T. H.^, Chang, H.^, Lin, B., Kong, B. L. H., Wang, Y., Tsai, M.-S., Deng, D. & Cui, Z.* (under review). Evaluation and clinical validation of pan-specific and clade-specific diagnostic real-time PCR assays for human mpox virus. eBioMedicine – The Lancet Discovery Science. [preprint]

  2. Csilléry, K.*, Yang, H., Hung, T. H., Rodriguez-Rodriguez, P., Miller, J., Mantovani, V., Chauvier-Mendes, Y. & Nobis, M. (under review) GenDivRange: A global database of geo-referenced population genetic diversity across species ranges. Scientific Data. [GenDivRange official website] â€‹

  3. ​Wu, E. T. Y.*, Hung, T. H., Erbilgin, N., Ullah, A., Jansons, Ä€., Ali, H. A., Clegg, S. M. & MacKay, J. J. (under review). Variation in the molecular phenotype of βglu1, an insect defense-related beta-glucosidase gene, in two transcontinental Picea species. Molecular Ecology. [preprint]​

  4. Hung, T. H.*, Formaggia, E., Morley, L., Kirby, K., Salguero-Gómez, R., Sheldon, B. C., MacKay, J. J.* (under review). Genetic diversity and population structure of pedunculate oaks (Quercus robur) in Wytham Woods. Plants, People, Planet. [preprint]​​​​

  5. Hung, T. H.*^, Tsai, M.-S.^, Newman, C., Macdonald, D. W., Buesching, C. (under review). Pre-implantation genome-wide methylation enables environmental adaptation in a social meso-carnivore. Molecular Ecology. [preprint]​​

  6. Hung, T. H.*^ & Chen, P.-H.^ (2025). Fair enough?—Scientific and historic perspectives on sex controversies at the Paris 2024 Olympics. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal. [doi] [pdf]​

  7. Rizzuto, G.*, Wang, D., Chen, J., Hung, T. H., Fitzky, A., Flashman, E. & MacKay, J. J.* (2024). NCEDs drive Rising but not Peaking abscisic acid profiles in diverging conifer species. Plant Stress, 14, 100574. [doi] [pdf]​

  8. Bellissimo, G., Altamirano, M.*, Muñoz, A. R., De la Rosa, J., Hung, T. H., Rizzuto, G., Vizzini, S. & Tomasello, A. (2024). The invasive brown seaweed Rugulopteryx okamurae (Dictyotales, Ochrophyta) continues to expand: first record in Italy. BioInvasions Records, 13(2), 385–401. [doi] [pdf]​

  9. Woudstra, Y., Tumas, H., van Ghelder, C., Hung, T. H., Ilska, J. J., Girardi, S., A'Hara, S., McLean, P., Cottrell, J., Bohlmann, J., Bousquet, J., Birol, I., Woolliams, J. A. & MacKay, J. J. (2024). Conifers concentrate large numbers of NLR immune receptor genes on one chromosome. Genome Biology and Evolution, 16(6), evae113. [doi] [pdf]​

  10. Hung, T. H.*, Wu, E. T. Y., Zeltiņš, P., Jansons, Ä€., Ullah, A., Erbilgin, N., Bohlmann, J., Bousquet, J., Birol, I., Clegg, S. & MacKay, J. J.* (2024). Long-insert sequence capture detects high copy numbers in a defence-related beta-glucosidase gene βglu-1 with large variations in white spruce but not Norway spruce. BMC Genomics, 25, 118. [doi] [pdf]​

  11. Hung, T. H.*, So, T., Thammavong, B., Chamchumroon, V., Theilade, I., Phourin, C., Bouamanivong, S., Hartvig, I., Gaisberger, H., Jalonen, R., Boshier, D. H. & MacKay, J. J.* (2023). Range-wide differential adaptation and genomic offset in critically endangered Asian rosewoods. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(33), e2301603120. [doi] [pdf] [special mention in front section "In this Issue"] [news feature 1] [news feature 2]​

  12. Dun, H. F.*, Hung, T. H., Green, S. & MacKay, J. J.* (2022). Comparative transcriptomic responses of European and Japanese larches to infection by Phytophthora ramorum. BMC Plant Biology, 22, 480. [doi] [pdf]​

  13. Barstow, M., Boshier, D., Bountithiponh, C., Changtragoon, S., Gaisberger, H., Hartvig, I., Hung, T. H. ... Zheng, Y. (2022). Dalbergia cochinchinensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022, e.T215342548A2822125. [doi] [pdf]​

  14. Barstow, M., Boshier, D., Bountithiponh, C., Changtragoon, S., Gaisberger, H., Hartvig, I., Hung, T. H. ... Zheng, Y. (2022). Dalbergia oliveri. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022, e.T215341339A2813403. [doi] [pdf]​

  15. Gaisberger, H.*, So, T., Thammavong, B., Bounithiphonh, C., Hoa, T. T., Zheng, Y. … Hung, T. H. … Jalonen, R. (2022). Range-wide priority setting for the conservation and restoration of Asian rosewoods accounting for multiple threats and ecogeographic diversity. Biological Conservation, 270, 109560. [doi] [pdf]

  16. Hung, T. H.*, So, T., Sreng, S., Thammavong, B., Boounithiphonh, C., Boshier, D. H. & MacKay, J. J.* (2020). Reference transcriptomes and comparative analyses of six species in the threatened rosewood genus Dalbergia. Scientific Reports, 10, 17749. [doi]​ [pdf]

  17. ​​Hung, T. H.*^, Gooda, R.^, Rizzuto, G., So, T., Thammavong, B., Tran, H. T., Jalonen, R., Boshier, D. H. & MacKay, J. J.* (2020). Physiological responses of rosewoods Dalbergia cochinchinensis and D. oliveri under drought and heat stresses. Ecology and Evolution, 10(19), 10872–10885. [doi] [pdf]

Conference Presentations

  1. Woudstra, Y.*, Tumas, H., van Ghelder, C., Hung, T. H. & MacKay, J. (2025, Jul 26–30). Conifers concentrate large numbers of NLR immune receptor genes on one chromosome. Botany 2025 – Botany without Barriers. Palm Springs, California, USA

  2. Wu, E. T. Y., Hung, T. H., Erbilgin, N., Ullah, A., Jansons, Ä€. Clegg, S. & MacKay, J. J. (2024, Jul 10–14). Range-wide pattern in transcription level of an insect defense gene, βglu1, detected in Picea glauca (white spruce) but not in Picea abies (Norway spruce). North American Forest Genetics Society 2024. Oaxaca, Mexico. (🥇 Awarded Best Student Poster)​

  3. Hung, T. H.*, Wu, E. T. Y., Zeltiņš, P., Jansons, Ä€., Ullah, A., Erbilgin, N., Bohlmann, J., Bousquet, J., Birol, I., Clegg, S. & MacKay, J. J.* (2023, Dec 12–15). Long-insert sequence capture detects high copy numbers in a defence-related beta-glucosidase gene βglu-1 with large variations in white spruce but not Norway spruce. British Ecological Society Annual Meeting 2023. Belfast, UK.

  4. Tsai, M.-S., Hung, T. H., Newman, C., Macdonald, D. & Buesching, C. (2023, Sep 5–7). Genome-wide methylation patterns in European badgers (Meles meles) are associated with pre-natal weather conditions and early-life weight and reveal adaptive hotspots in 47S rDNA. Ecological Genetics Group Annual Meeting 2023. Oxford, UK.​

  5. Hung, T. H.*, So, T., Thammavong, B., Chamchumroon, V., Theilade, I., Phourin, C., Bouamanivong, S., Hartvig, I., Gaisberger, H., Jalonen, R., Boshier, D. H. & MacKay, J. J.* (2023, Sep 5–7). Range-wide differential adaptation and genomic offset in critically endangered Asian rosewoods. Ecological Genetics Group Annual Meeting 2023. Oxford, UK.​

  6. Wu, E. T. Y., Hung, T. H., Mun, H. M., Ali, H. A., Clegg, S., Erbilgin, N., Jansons, Ä€. & MacKay, J. J. (2023, Sep 5–7). Molecular evolution of insect defence traits in forest tree populations. Ecological Genetics Group Annual Meeting 2023. Oxford, UK.​

  7. Aquino, J. D. C., Hung, T. H., Bach-Pages, M. & Preston, G. M. (2023, Jul 12–13). Comparative transcriptomic analysis of S-adenosylmethionine synthase 4 and DEAD-box ATP-dependent RNA helicase 11 mutants infiltrated with bacterial elicitor-Flg22 inducing PAMP-triggered immunity. National Academy of Science and Technology Philippines Annual Scientific Meeting. Philippines.​

  8. MacKay, J. J., Parent, G., Hung, T. H., Wu, E. T. Y. & Giguère, I. (2022, Sep 12–17). Copy number variation in defence against spruce budworm. 7th IUFRO International Workshop on the Genetics of Tree-Parasite Interactions in Forestry. Pontevedra, Spain.​

  9. Hung, T. H., Yang, H., Rodríguez Rodríguez, P., Miller., J., Mantovani, V., Nobis, M. & Csilléry, K. (2022, Aug 14–19). A global database of genetic diversity (GenDivRange) and a test of the central-marginal hypothesis. Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology. Prague, Czech.​

  10. Hung, T. H., So, T., Thammavong, B., Tran, H. T., Chamchumroon, V., Theilade, I., Hartvig, I., Boyle, B., Gaisberger, H., Jalonen, R., Boshier, D. H. & MacKay, J. J. (2021, Dec 12–15). Fantastic seeds and where to plant them: Ecological genomics and adaptation of endangered rosewoods Dalbergia cochinchinensis and D. oliveri in the Greater Mekong Subregion. British Ecological Society & French Society for Ecology and Evolution: Ecology Across Borders 2021. Liverpool, UK.​

  11. Hung, T. H., Rodríguez Rodríguez, P., Thompson, K., Mantovani, V., Miller, J. I., Nobis, M., Videvall, E., Csilléry, K. (2021. Apr 12–16). GenDivRange: A novel database of population genetic diversity and dispersal distance across a wide range of taxa to test the evolutionary determinants of species range limits. IALE-North America 2021 Annual Meeting. Online. (🥇 Awarded Best Student Presentation)​

  12. Rizzuto, G., MacKay, J, Hung, T. H., Dun, H., Tumas, H., Sayyed I. & Richardson, D. (2020, Dec 14–18). Don’t sweat it: a genetic switch for abscisic acid in conifers. British Ecological Society Annual Meeting 2020. Online.

  13. Hung, T. H., Gaisberger, H., Callagher, C., So, T., Thammavong, B., Tran, H. T., Theilade, I., Hartvig, I., Boshier, D. H. & MacKay, J. J. (2019, Dec 10–13). Ensuring genetic diversity and adaptability of rosewoods Dalbergia cochinchinensis and D. oliveri in the Greater Mekong Subregion. British Ecological Society Annual Meeting 2019. Belfast, UK.

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