博士毕业于中国科学院大学基因组学专业。在Cell、Science、Nature、Nature Genetics等国际顶级学术期刊发表论文三十余篇。其中以第一作者或共同第一作者在Cell（2025），PNAS （2019）、Nature Ecology & Evolution（2018）等期刊发表论文8篇。论文总引用次数超过6,000次，Google Scholar h-index为21，主持国家级、省部级项目3项，任国家自然科学基金委同行评议专家。现任BMC Genomics期刊编委，并为Nature Ecology & Evolution、BMC Genomics、Frontiers in Genetics、Ecology & Evolution、Journal of Evolutionary Biology 等多个学术期刊审稿。

（1） 生物信息学在再生医学的应用

（2） 心脏再生与发育的进化机制研究

（3） 物种多组学表观遗传图谱研究

1. Vizueta, J^#., Xiong, Z^#., Ding, G^#., Larsen, R. S., Ran, H., Gao, Q., ... & Zhang, G. (2025). Adaptive radiation and social evolution of the ants. Cell. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.05.030.

2. Xiong, Z., He, D., Guang, X., & Li, Q. (2023). Novel tRNA gene rearrangements in the mitochondrial genomes of Poneroid ants and phylogenetic implication of Paraponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Life, 13(10), 2068.

3. Xiong, Z., Li, F., Li, Q., Zhou, L., Gamble, T., Zheng, J., ... & Zhang, G. (2016). Draft genome of the leopard gecko, Eublepharis macularius. Gigascience, 5(1), s13742-016.

4. Gao, Q^#., Xiong, Z^#., Larsen, R. S., Zhou, L., Zhao, J., Ding, G., ... & Zhang, G. (2020). High-quality chromosome-level genome assembly and full-length transcriptome analysis of the pharaoh ant Monomorium pharaonis. GigaScience, 9(12), giaa143.

5. Zepeda Mendoza^#., Xiong, Z^#., Escalera-Zamudio, M., Runge, A. K., Thézé, J., Streicker, D., ... & Gilbert, M. T. (2018). Hologenomic adaptations underlying the evolution of sanguivory in the common vampire bat. Nature ecology & evolution, 2(4), 659-668. (引用次数：181)

6. Sun, Y. B^#., Xiong, Z. J^#., Xiang, X. Y^#., Liu, S. P., Zhou, W. W., Tu, X. L., ... & Zhang, Y. P. (2015). Whole-genome sequence of the Tibetan frog Nanorana parkeri and the comparative evolution of tetrapod genomes. PNAS, 112(11), E1257-E1262. (引用次数：217)

7. Gao, W^#., Sun, Y. B^#., Zhou, W. W^#., Xiong, Z. J^#., Chen, L., Li, H., ... & Che, J. (2019). Genomic and transcriptomic investigations of the evolutionary transition from oviparity to viviparity. PNAS, 116(9), 3646-3655.