以第一作者或通讯联系人在Science，Trends in Genetics， Genetics， Molecular Ecology，TAG 等国际刊物上发表论文40 余篇。近期发表的代表论文为：
Gao L. Z.*, Hideki Innan. 2008. Non-independent domestication of the two rice subspecies, Oryza sativa subsp. indica and subsp. japonica, demonstrated by multilocus microsatellites. Genetics 179 (2)：965-976
Gao L. Z.*, Hongyan Xu. 2008. Patterns of mutation rate variation at microsatellites: evolutionary insights from comparisons of Asian cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L.) and related species. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8:11
Gao L. Z.* 2005. Microsatellite diversity and population genetic structure of an endangered wild rice, Oryza officinalis (Poaceae) from China. Molecular Ecology 14: 4287-4297
Gao L. Z., Hideki Innan. 2004. Very low gene duplication rate in the yeast genome. Science 306: 1367-1370
Gao L. Z.*, McCarthy E. M., Gankgo E., McDonald J. F. 2004. Evolutionary history of Oryza sativa LTR retrotransposons: a preliminary survey of the rice genome sequences. BMC Genomics 5: 1-1
Gao L. Z.* 2004. Population structure and conservation genetics of wild rice Oryza rufipogon (Poaceae): a region-wide perspective from microsatellite variation. Molecular Ecology 13(5): 1009-1024
Gao L. Z., Zhang J. Z. 2003. Why human disease-associated mutations are identical in orthologous sites of healthy mouse? Trends in Genetics 19(12): 678-681
McCarthy E. M., Liu J. D., Gao L. Z., McDonald J. F. 2002. Long terminal repeat retrotransposons of Oryza sativa. Genome Biology 3(10): research0053.1- 0053.11
Gao L. Z.*, Schaal B. A., Zhang C. H., Jia J. Z., Dong Y. S. 2002. Assessment of population genetic structure of common wild rice Oryza rufipogon Griff. detected by microsatellite DNA and allozyme loci. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 106: 173-180
主要国际学术活动情况
作为荣誉会员应邀参加American Association for the Advancement of Science和Sigma Xi （Senior Membership）。为American Society of Botany，Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution，The Society for the Study of Evolution，American Genetic Association和Society for Conservation Biology等多个学会会员。
迄今为止，常年为如下20多个本领域主流国际刊物审阅稿件，包括PNAS, Genome Research, Gene, Genome Biology, BMC Genomics, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Evolution, BMC Evolutionary Biology, BMC Genetics, New Phytologist, Molecular Ecology, Journal of Molecular Evolution, Genetica, Conservation Genetics，FEBS Letters, Plant Systematics and Evolution, Theoretical and Applied Genetics, Euphytica, Plant Genetic Resources: Characterization & Utilization 和 Journal of Heredity等。
目前担任BMC Evolutionary Biology（2010－）的Associate Editor；任The Open Conservation Biology Journal（2008－），American Journal of Plant Sciences（2010－），Frontiers in Plant Genetics and Genomics和International Journal of Genomics and Proteomics（2010－）的编委。
