侯仲娥，女，博士，研究员。2002年在中国科学院动物研究所获博士学位，2006年晋升副研究员，2015年晋升研究员。国家优秀青年基金获得者。以甲壳动物钩虾为研究对象，交叉融合分子生物学、基因组学、地质学和生态学的数据开展地质气候变迁对钩虾分布格局的影响和钩虾对海陆不同生境的适应机制研究。研究揭示跳钩虾在海陆变迁进程中呼吸鳃及其调控基因SMC3的趋同演化；发现冷水性湖泊钩虾在冰期从天山迁移扩张到环北寒带冰川湖，而未来气候变暖将导致其分布区缩小并局限在高海拔高纬度地区；阐明特提斯海变迁重塑了现今的海洋生物多样性分布格局，促进钩虾走出特提斯海在欧亚大陆淡水中快速分化；揭示特提斯海是中国淡水钩虾的源头，而青藏高原等地质隆升是“物种泵”，驱动钩虾在中国的多样性分化；发现钩虾4新属102新种。在Science Advances、Global Change Biology、PNAS、Biological Reviews、Molecular Ecology、Journal of Biogeography、Cladistics等发表论文80余篇。

　　分子系统学、谱系地理学以及多样性分化格局。利用动物地理和基因编辑的方法探讨海陆变迁和气候变化对多样性格局的影响和钩虾的响应机制。

　　中科院A类先导专项泛第三极环境变化与绿色丝绸之路建设子子课题，2018–2023

　　国家自然科学基金面上项目，跳钩虾从海洋到陆地高山的多样性演化，2021–2024

1. Liu H., Zheng Y., Zhu B., Tong Y., Xin W., Yang H., Jin P., Hu Y., Huang M., Chang W., Ballarin F., *Li S., *Hou Z. 2023. Marine–montane transitions coupled with gill and genetic convergence in extant crustacean. Sciences Advances 9: eadg4011.
2. Hou Z., Jin P., Liu H., Qiao H., Sket B., Cannizzaro A.G., Berg D.J., *Li, S. 2022. Past climate cooling promoted global dispersal amphipods from Tian Shan montane lakes to circumboreal lakes. Global Change Biology 28 (12): 3830–3845.
3. Hu Y., Li S., Liu H., Kim S.T., Kurenshchikov D.K., *Hou Z. 2022. The ancient volcanos as center of diversification: a case study of freshwater amphipods in Northeast Asia. Molecular Ecology 31 (1): 343–355.
4. Liu H., Tong Y., Zheng Y., Li S., *Hou Z. 2022. Sea–land transition drove terrestrial amphipod diversification in East Asia, with description of a new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 196 (2): 940–958.
5. Zhao Z., Hou Z., Li S. 2022. Cenozoic Tethyan changes dominated Eurasian animal evolution and diversity patterns. Zoological Research 43 (1): 3–13.
6. Liu S.P., Zhen Y.M., Wang Y.R., Zhu C.D., *Hou Z. 2021. The cephalic morphology of Platorchestia japonica (Talitridae, Amphipoda, Crustacea) and its implications of terrestrial adaptation and phylogeny. Zoologischer Anzeiger 294: 1–9.
7. Li Y., Li S., Liu H., Kurenshchikov D.K., *Hou Z. 2020. Eocene-Oligocene climate changes drove amphipod habitat shift from marine to freshwater in the Far East. Zoologica Scripta 49: 357–365.
8. Hou Z., Li S. 2018. Tethyan changes shaped aquatic diversification. Biological Reviews 93 (2): 874–896.
9. Liu H., Li S., Ugolini A., Momtazi F., Hou Z.* 2018. Tethyan closure drove tropical marine biodiversity: Vicariant diversification of intertidal crustaceans. Journal of Biogeography 45 (4): 941–951.
10. Hou Z., Sket B., Fiser C., Li S., 2011. Eocene habitat shift from saline to freshwater promoted Tethyan amphipod diversification. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108 (35): 14533–14538.