赵涛（Tao Zhao）
云南大学古生物研究院助理研究员
Email：zhaotao@ynu.edu.cn
教育经历
2013.9-2018.6 南京大学 地球科学与工程学院 古生物学与地层学 博士
导师：周忠和研究员/姜宝玉教授
2009.9-2013.6 南京大学 地球科学与工程学院 古生物学与地层学 学士
工作经历
2022.8至今 云南大学 古生物研究院 助理研究员
2020.7-2022.7 南京大学 地球科学与工程学院 博士后
合作导师：沈树忠教授/泮燕红教授
2018.7-2020.7 中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所 博士后
合作导师：沈树忠研究员/泮燕红研究员
研究方向
鸟类演化与软组织特异保存，采用多技术手段解析化石中的超微结构与化学信息，为鸟类演化提供新的证据，并分析其保存机理。
科研项目
（1）羽毛的实验埋藏学分析，国家自然科学基金委青年科学基金项目，2019-2022，主持
（2）特异保存化石的分子埋藏学，中国科学院战略性先导科技专项（B类）子课题，2018-2023，参加
发表论文
Zhao T, Li Z, Zhang H, Pan Y. 2022. Scales in the Early Cretaceous bird Gansus from China provide evidence on the evolution of avian scales. Journal of Palaeogeography. 10.1016/j.jop.2022.08.002
Zhao T, Pan Y. An evaluation of the effect of hydrofluoric acid (HF) treatment on keratins. 2022. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 10.1002/jez.b.23173
Zhao T, Hu L, Pan Y. 2022. Silicification of feathers in a modern hot spring in New Zealand. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 113:119-124. 10.1017/S1755691022000068
Pan Y, Li Z, Wang M, Zhao T, Wang X, Zheng X. 2022. Unambiguous evidence of brilliant iridescent feather color from hollow melanosomes in an Early Cretaceous bird. National Science Review. 10.1093/nsr/nwab227
Wang M, O’Connor J, Zhao T, Pan Y, Zheng X, Wang X, Zhou Z. 2021. An Early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird with a pintail. Current Biology 31:4845-4852.e2.
Zhao T, Hu J, Hu L, and Pan Y. 2020. Experimental maturation of feathers: implications for interpretations of fossil feathers. PALAIOS 35:67-76. 10.2110/palo.2019.064
Zhao T, and Li Z. 2020. Growth rate and locomotor performance tradeoff is not universal in birds. PeerJ 8:e8423. 10.7717/peerj.8423
Bailleul AM, O’Connor J, Li Z, Wu Q, Zhao T, Martinez Monleon MA, Wang M, Zheng X. 2020. Confirmation of ovarian follicles in an enantiornithine (Aves) from the Jehol biota using soft tissue analyses. Communications Biology 3:1-8.
Hu L, Zhao T, and Pan Y. 2020. Spinicaudatans from the Yixian Formation (Lower Cretaceous) and the Daohugou Beds (Jurassic) of Western Liaoning, China. Cretaceous Research 105:104073.
Hu L, Xiang H, Cai C, Zhao T, Huang D, Pan Y. 2019. High-fidelity preservation of the Scarabaeoidea (Insecta) exoskeletons from the Miocene of Shanwang. Palaeoentomology 2:94–101. 10.11646/palaeoentomology.2.1.7.
Pan Y, Zheng W, Sawyer RH, Pennington MW, Zheng X, Wang X, Wang M, Hu L, O’Connor JK, Zhao T, Li Z, Schroeter ER, Wu F, Xu X, Zhou Z, Schweitzer MH. 2019. The molecular evolution of feathers with direct evidence from fossils. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116:3018-3023.
Pan Y, Hu L, and Zhao T. 2018. Applications of chemical imaging techniques in paleontology. National Science Review. 10.1093/nsr/nwy107
Zhao T, Liu D, and Li Z. 2017. Correlated evolution of sternal keel length and ilium length in birds. PeerJ 5:e3622. 10.7717/peerj.3622
Jiang B, Zhao T, Regnault S, Edwards NP, Kohn SC, Li Z, Wogelius RA, Benton MJ, and Hutchinson JR. 2017. Cellular preservation of musculoskeletal specializations in the Cretaceous bird Confuciusornis. Nature Communications 8:14779.
Zhao T, Mayr G, Wang M, and Wang W. 2015. A trogon-like arboreal bird from the early Eocene of China. Alcheringa 39:287-294.
