Publications 學術著作

(👍 First Author 第一作者; 🎉 Corresponding Author 通訊作者)

Journal Papers 期刊論文

1. Yao-Moan Huang, Chia-Wen Ko, Pei-Hsuan Lee, Yi-Han Chang, Wen-Liang Chiou, Tzu-Tong Kao (2025). Far-red light enhances spore germination in the endangered fern Angiopteris somae. The Fern Gazette, 22(6), 272-280. Reprint PDF. 🎉

2. Yao-Moan Huang, Chia-Wen Ko, Chin-Tzer Duh, Chu-Mei Huang, Wen-Liang Chiou, Tzu-Tong Kao (2025). Rapid assessment of fern spore quality using microscale electrical conductivity testing. (in review). 🎉

3. En Liu, Yao-Moan Huang, Tzu-Tong Kao, Yea-Chen Liu (2025). New finding of disjunct distribution between Hengduan Mountains and Western Pacific Islands, Polystichum lichiangense (Dryopteridaceae), a newly recorded alpine fern from Taiwan. (in review).

4. Yao-Moan Huang, Chia-Wen Ko, Pei-Hsuan Lee, Yi-Han Chang, Wen-Liang Chiou, Tzu-Tong Kao (2025). Far-red light enhances spore germination in the endangered fern Angiopteris somae. The Fern Gazette, 22(6), 272-280. 🎉

5. Yao-Moan Huang, Chia-Wen Ko, Pei-Hsuan Lee, Yi-Han Chang, Chieh-Wen Kao, Wen-Liang Chiou, Tzu-Tong Kao (2024). Effects of cold treatment on megaspore germination and sporeling emergence in Isoetes taiwanensis DeVol. Indian Fern Journal, 41(2),107-117. Reprint PDF. 🎉

6. Li-Yaung Kuo, Sheng-Kai Tang, Yu-Hsuan Huang, Pei‐Jun Xie, Cheng-Wei Chen, Zhi-Xiang Chang, Tian-Chuan Hsu, Yi-Han Chang, Yi-Shan Chao, Chien-Wen Chen, Susan Fawcett, Joel H. Nitta, Michael Sundue, Tzu-Tong Kao, Hong Truong Luu, Andi Maryani A. Mustapeng, Fulgent P. Coritico, Victor B. Amoroso & Yong Kien Thai (2024). A DNA barcode reference of Asian ferns with expert-identified voucher specimens and DNA samples. Scientific Data, 11:1314. DOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-04161-8.

7. Tzu-Tong Kao, Ming-Wei Lai, Tzu-Haw Wang, Chia-Ling Yang, Miguel J. Frada, Chuan Ku (2024). Haplotype-aware multiomics unveils the regulatory basis of haplodiplontic life-cycle differentiation in a cosmopolitan marine alga. bioRxiv 2024.05.26.595999. DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.26.595999. 👍

8. Tzu-Tong Kao, Tzu-Haw Wang, Chuan Ku (2022). Rampant nuclear–mitochondrial–plastid phylogenomic discordance in globally distributed calcifying microalgae. New Phytologist, 235(4), 1394-1408. DOI: 10.1111/nph.18219. 👍

9. Li-Yaung Kuo, Sheng Kai Tang, Tzu-Tong Kao, Atsushi Ebihara, Susan Fawcett, Min-Chien Hsiao, Wataru Shinohara, Benjamin Dauphin (2021). A dormant resource for genome size estimation in ferns: C-value inference of the Ophioglossaceae using herbarium specimen spores. Applications in Plant Sciences, 9, e11452. DOI: 10.1002/aps3.11452. 

10. Tsu-Wang Sun, Chia-Ling Yang, Tzu-Tong Kao, Tzu-Haw Wang, Ming-Wei Lai, and Chuan Ku (2020). Host Range and Coding Potential of Eukaryotic Giant Viruses. Viruses, 12(11), 1337. DOI: 10.3390/v12111337.

11. Cheng-Wei Chen, Minh Tri Dang, Hong Truong Luu, Tzu-Tong Kao, Yao-Moan Huang, Chia-Wei Li (2020). Antrophyum nambanense, A New Vittarioid Fern (Pteridaceae; Polypodiales) From Vietnam. Systematic Botany, 45(3), 450-459. DOI: 10.1600/036364420X15935294613419.

12. Tzu-Tong Kao, Carl J. Rothfels, Alicia Melgoza-Castillo, Kathleen M. Pryer, Michael D. Windham (2020). Infraspecific diversification of the star cloak fern (Notholaena standleyi) in the deserts of the United States and Mexico. American Journal of Botany, 107(4), 658-675. DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1461. 👍 🎉

13. Lisa O. George, Kathleen M.Pryer, Tzu-Tong Kao, Layne Huiet, Michael D Windham (2019). Baja: A new monospecific genus segregated from Cheilanthes s.l. (Pteridaceae). Systematic Botany, 44: 471–482. DOI: 10.1600/036364419X15620113920536

14. Tzu-Tong Kao, Kathleen M. Pryer, Forrest D. Freund, Michael D. Windham, Carl J. Rothfels (2019). Low-copy nuclear sequence data confirm complex patterns of farina evolution in notholaenid ferns (Pteridaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 138: 139–155. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.05.016. 👍 🎉

15. Layne Huiet, Fay-Wei Li, Tzu-Tong Kao, Jefferson Prado, Alan R. Smith, Eric Schuettpelz, Kathleen M. Pryer (2018). A worldwide phylogeny of Adiantum (Pteridaceae) reveals remarkable convergent evolution in leaf blade architecture. Taxon, 67: 488–502. DOI: 10.12705/673.3.

16. Kuo, L.-Y., Y.-H. Chang, J.M.O. Glowienka, V.B. Amoroso, S.-Y. Dong, T.-T. Kao, C.-N. Wang, W.-L. Chiou (2016). A revised frameworkof Dryopteris subg. Nothoperanema (Dryopteridaceae) inferred from phylogenetic evidence, with descriptions of two new sections. Systematic Botany, 41: 596–605. DOI: 10.1600/036364416X692334.

17. Tzu-Tong Kao, Kathleen M. Pryer, Melvin D. Turner, Richard A. White, Petra Korall (2015). Origins of the endemic scaly tree ferns on the Galápagos and Cocos Islands. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 176: 869–879. DOI: 10.1086/683303. 👍 🎉

18. Yao-Moan Huang, Victor B. Amoroso, Fulgent P. Coritico, Chia-Wen Ko, Tzu-Tong Kao, John Rey Callado, Wen-Liang Chiou (2015). Reproductive biology of Aglaomorpha cornucopia (Copel.) M.C. Roos, a rare and endemic fern from the Philippines. American Fern Journal, 105: 31–44. DOI: 10.1640/0002-8444-105.1.31.

19. Tzu-Tong Kao, Wen-Liang Chiou, Sheng-Yuan Hsu, Chun-Ming Chen, Yi-Shan Chao, Yao-Moan Huang. (2013). Hybrid origin of Nephrolepis xhippocrepicis Miyam (Nephrolepidaceae). International Journal of Plant Reproductive Biology, 6: 1–14. Reprint PDF. 👍

20. Shann-Jye Moore, Barbara S Parris, Tzu-Tong Kao, Pi-Fong Lu, Wen-Liang Chiou (2013). Xiphopterella devolii (Polypodiaceae), a new species and newly recorded genus in Taiwan. Botanical Studies, 54: 24. DOI: 10.1186/1999-3110-54-24.

21. Tzu-Tong Kao, Shiang-Jiuun Chen, Wen-Liang Chiou, Yi-Chun Chuang, Ling-Long Kuo-Huang (2008). Various microscopic methods for investigating the venuloid idioblasts of Pteris grevilleana Wall. Taiwania, 53: 394–400. DOI: 10.6165/tai.2008.53(4).394. 👍

Other Publications 其他發表

1. Tzu-Tong Kao, Ming-Wei Lai, Tzu-Haw Wang, Chia-Ling Yang, Miguel J. Frada, Chuan Ku (2024). Haplotype-aware multiomics unveils the regulatory basis of haplodiplontic life-cycle differentiation in a cosmopolitan marine alga. bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.26.595999. 👍

2. 紀瑋婷、高資棟 (2018)。植物藝術世界日。林業研究專訊 25(3): 47–49。Reprint PDF。

3. 黃曜謀、蔡心怡、高資棟、柯佳妏 (2016)。本土植物教學模式物種—水蕨。科學研習 56–3。Reprint PDF。

4. 黃曜謀、邱文良、陳俊銘、高資棟 (2013)。臺北植物園區馬蹄腎蕨的發現與研究。林業研究專訊 20: 53–55。 Reprint PDF。

5. 黃曜謀、高資棟、傅春旭 (2011)。談樹蕨瀕臨滅絕。臺灣博物季刊 30: 80–83。 Reprint PDF。

Dissertation/Thesis 博碩士論文

1. Kao, T.-T. 2019. Evolution and diversification of farinose ferns in Xeric Environments: a case study using Notholaena standleyi Maxon as a model. Department of Biology, Duke University. Reprint PDF.

2. Kao, T.-T. 2009. A study of false veins and silica deposition types on fronds in Pteridaceae. Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University. Reprint PDF.