Higher education: PhD.

Positions held

• 1995-1998 Associate professor, College of Life Sciences of Hunan Normal University,
• 1998-Present Professor, College of Life Science of Hunan Normal University,
  
• 1998- 1999, doing research work about the cloning and expression of cytochrome P45011âgenes during gonadal sex differentiation and spermatogenesis of rainbow trout in the laboratory of fish physiology of the National Institute of Agriculture (INRA) of France.

Research interests:

1. Fish polyploids including tetraploids and triploid crucain carp and triploid carp
2. Sex control of fish
3. Developmental biology of gametes in fish
4. Fish molecular biology

Selected publications:

1. Liu, Shaojun., Y. Liu, G. Zhou, X. Zhang, C. Luo, H. Feng, X. He, G.Zhu, H. Yang. The formation of tetraploid stocks of red crucian carp x common carp hybrids as an effect of interspecific hybridization. Aquaculture, 2001, 192 (3-4)?171-186
2. Liu, Shaojun., M. Govoroun, H. D Cotta, M.-J. Ricordel , J.-J. Lareyre, O. M. McMeel, T. Smith, Y. Nagahama, and Y. Guiguen. Expression of cytochrome P450 11beta (11beta-hydroxylae) gene during gonadal sex differentiation and spermatogenesis in rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss. The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 2000, 75 (4-5): 291-298
3. Liu, Shaojun., Z.-Z. Yao. Self-fertilization of hermaphrodites of the teleost Clarias lazera after oral administration of 17-alpha-methyltestosterone and their offspring. The Journal of Experimental Zoology, 1995, 273: 527-532
4. Liu, Shaojun., Z.-Z. Yao and Y.-Q. Wang. Sex hormone induction of sex reversal in the teleost Clarias lazera and evidence for female homogamety and male heterogamety. The Journal of Experimental Zoology. 1996, 276:432-438
5. Liu, Shaojun., F. Hu, G. Zhou, X. ZHANG, H. Feng, X. He, Y. Liu. Gonadal structure of triploid crucian carp produced by crossing allotetraploid hybrids of Carassium auratus red var. (female) x Cyprinus carpio(male) with Japanese crucian carp(Carassius auratus Cavieri T. et S). Acta Hydrobiological Sinica, 2000,24(4)?301-306.
6. Li, S., Shaojun Liu, Y. Liu, J-Z.Li. Analysis on the restriction fragments length of the mitochondrial DNA from liver of common carp. Life Science Research, 4:178-182 (2000).
7. Li, S., Shaojun Liu, Y Liu, X-J. Zhang, C. Luo. Analysis on the restriction fragments length of the mitochondrial DNA from four strains of Carassius auratus. Zoological Research. 2000, 21(6): 75-78
8. Li, S., Shaojun Liu, Y. Liu, X-J. Zhang, C. Luo. Study on the mtDNA from liver of allotetraploid hybrids of red crucain carp x common carp. Journal of Fisheries of China, 2000,24(6):489-493 (In Chinese with English Abstract).
9. Li, S., Shaojun, Liu, X-J. Zhang, C. Lou, G-J. Zhou, Y. Liu. Comparative studies on mitochondrial DNA from triploid crucian carp and its parents (allotetraploid hybrids and C. auratus cuvieri). Journal of Fishery Sciences of China, 2001?8?1??1-5.
10. Liu, Shaojun. Studies on the origin and migration of the primordial germ cells and differentiation in Clarias lazera, Acta Hydrobiological Sinica, 1991, 15:1-7