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Scott Edwards
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Evolutionary Studies
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Scott V. Edwards

PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

Summary

Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Curator of Ornithology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology and Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University. President, Society for the Study of Evolution (2011-12); President, Society of Systematic Biologists (2007); President, American Genetic Association (2011). Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2009); American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2009); Member, National Academy of Sciences (2015).

Biodiversity Biogeography Evolutionary Studies Genomics Zoology

Editing Journals

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

Harvard University
Chalmers University of Technology

Work details

Professor and Curator

Harvard University
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Websites

  • Laboratory web site
  • Google Scholar

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 6
  • Preprints 6
  • Edited 42
  • Questions 1
January 28, 2020
The Global Museum: natural history collections and the future of evolutionary science and public education
Freek T. Bakker, Alexandre Antonelli, Julia A. Clarke, Joseph A. Cook, Scott V. Edwards, Per G.P. Ericson, Søren Faurby, Nuno Ferrand, Magnus Gelang, Rosemary G. Gillespie, Martin Irestedt, Kennet Lundin, Ellen Larsson, Pável Matos-Maraví, Johannes Müller, Ted von Proschwitz, George K. Roderick, Alexander Schliep, Niklas Wahlberg, John Wiedenhoeft, Mari Källersjö
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8225 PubMed 32025365
November 5, 2019
Endless forms of sexual selection
Willow R. Lindsay, Staffan Andersson, Badreddine Bererhi, Jacob Höglund, Arild Johnsen, Charlotta Kvarnemo, Erica H. Leder, Jan T. Lifjeld, Calum E. Ninnes, Mats Olsson, Geoff A. Parker, Tommaso Pizzari, Anna Qvarnström, Rebecca J. Safran, Ola Svensson, Scott V. Edwards
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7988 PubMed 31720113
November 5, 2019
Genomics of host-pathogen interactions: challenges and opportunities across ecological and spatiotemporal scales
Kathrin Näpflin, Emily A. O’Connor, Lutz Becks, Staffan Bensch, Vincenzo A. Ellis, Nina Hafer-Hahmann, Karin C. Harding, Sara K. Lindén, Morten T. Olsen, Jacob Roved, Timothy B. Sackton, Allison J. Shultz, Vignesh Venkatakrishnan, Elin Videvall, Helena Westerdahl, Jamie C. Winternitz, Scott V. Edwards
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8013 PubMed 31720122
February 14, 2019
Embracing heterogeneity: coalescing the Tree of Life and the future of phylogenomics
Gustavo A. Bravo, Alexandre Antonelli, Christine D. Bacon, Krzysztof Bartoszek, Mozes P. K. Blom, Stella Huynh, Graham Jones, L. Lacey Knowles, Sangeet Lamichhaney, Thomas Marcussen, Hélène Morlon, Luay K. Nakhleh, Bengt Oxelman, Bernard Pfeil, Alexander Schliep, Niklas Wahlberg, Fernanda P. Werneck, John Wiedenhoeft, Sandi Willows-Munro, Scott V. Edwards
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6399 PubMed 30783571
October 4, 2018
Conceptual and empirical advances in Neotropical biodiversity research
Alexandre Antonelli, María Ariza, James Albert, Tobias Andermann, Josué Azevedo, Christine Bacon, Søren Faurby, Thais Guedes, Carina Hoorn, Lúcia G. Lohmann, Pável Matos-Maraví, Camila D. Ritter, Isabel Sanmartín, Daniele Silvestro, Marcelo Tejedor, Hans ter Steege, Hanna Tuomisto, Fernanda P. Werneck, Alexander Zizka, Scott V. Edwards
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5644 PubMed 30310740
June 11, 2013
Major histocompatibility complex class I evolution in songbirds: universal primers, rapid evolution and base compositional shifts in exon 3
Miguel Alcaide, Mark Liu, Scott V. Edwards
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.86 PubMed 23781408
October 1, 2019 - Version: 2
Endless forms of sexual selection
Willow R Lindsay, Staffan Andersson, Badreddine Bererhi, Jacob Höglund, Arild Johnsen, Charlotta Kvarnemo, Erica H Leder, Jan T Lifjeld, Calum E Ninnes, Mats Olsson, Geoff A Parker, Tommaso Pizzari, Anna Qvarnström, Rebecca J Safran, Ola Svensson, Scott Edwards
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27584v2
July 15, 2019 - Version: 1
Digitization and the future of natural history collections
Brandon Hedrick, Mason Heberling, Emily Meineke, Kathryn Turner, Christopher Grassa, Daniel Park, Jonathan Kennedy, Julia Clarke, Joseph Cook, David Blackburn, Scott Edwards, Charles Davis
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27859v1
May 15, 2019 - Version: 1
Genomics of hosts-pathogen interactions: challenges and opportunities across ecological and spatiotemporal scales
Kathrin Näpflin, Lutz Becks, Staffan Bensch, Vincenzo A Ellis, Nina Hafer-Hahmann, Karin C Harding, Sara K Lindén, Emily A O'Connor, Morten T Olsen, Jacob Roved, Timothy B Sackton, Allison J Shultz, Vignesh Venkatakrishnan, Elin Videvall, Helena Westerdahl, Jamie C Winternitz, Scott V Edwards
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27734v1
April 19, 2019 - Version: 1
The Global Museum: natural history collections and the future of evolutionary biology and public education
Freek T. Bakker, Alexandre Antonelli, Julia Clarke, Joseph A Cook, Scott V Edwards, Per GP Ericson, Søren Faurby, Nuno Ferrand, Magnus Gelang, Rosemary G Gillespie, Martin Irestedt, Kennet Lundin, Ellen Larsson, Pável Matos-Maraví, Johannes Müller, Ted von Proschwitz, George K Roderick, Alexander Schliep, Niklas Wahlberg, John Wiedenhoeft, Mari Källersjö
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27666v1
January 30, 2018 - Version: 3
Embracing heterogeneity: Building the Tree of Life and the future of phylogenomics
Gustavo A Bravo, Alexandre Antonelli, Christine D Bacon, Krzysztof Bartoszek, Mozes Blom, Stella Huynh, Graham Jones, L. Lacey Knowles, Sangeet Lamichhaney, Thomas Marcussen, Hélène Morlon, Luay Nakhleh, Bengt Oxelman, Bernard Pfeil, Alexander Schliep, Niklas Wahlberg, Fernanda Werneck, John Wiedenhoeft, Sandi Willows-Munro, Scott V Edwards
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.26449v3
July 6, 2017 - Version: 1
Conceptual and empirical advances in Neotropical biodiversity research
Alexandre Antonelli, María Ariza, James Albert, Tobias Andermann, Josué Azevedo, Christine Bacon, Søren Faurby, Thais Guedes, Carina Hoorn, Lucia Lohmann, Pavel Matos-Maraví, Camila Ritter, Isabel Sanmartín, Daniele Silvestro, Marcelo Tejedor, Hans ter Steege, Hanna Tuomisto, Fernanda Werneck, Alexander Zizka, Scott Edwards
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3074v1

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August 18, 2022
Enhancing georeferenced biodiversity inventories: automated information extraction from literature records reveal the gaps
Bjørn Tore Kopperud, Scott Lidgard, Lee Hsiang Liow
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13921 PubMed 35999848
February 18, 2022
Drivers of phenotypic divergence in a Mesoamerican highland bird
Sahid M. Robles-Bello, Melisa Vázquez-López, Sandra M. Ramírez-Barrera, Alondra K. Terrones-Ramírez, Blanca E. Hernández-Baños
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12901 PubMed 35198262
January 20, 2022
Genetic diversity of indigenous guinea fowl (Numida meleagris) using microsatellite markers in northern Togo
Aïcha Edith Soara, Essodina Talaki, Guiguigbaza-Kossigan Dayo, Isidore Houaga, Kokou Tona, Mohammed Bakkali
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12637 PubMed 35116192
December 1, 2021
Composition, richness and nestedness of gallery forest bird assemblages in an Amazonian savanna landscape: lessons for conservation
Joandro Pandilha, José Júlio de Toledo, Luis Cláudio Fernandes Barbosa, William Douglas Carvalho, Jackson Cleiton de Sousa, José Maria Cardoso da Silva
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12529 PubMed 34917422
September 2, 2021
The spleen bacteriome of wild rodents and shrews from Marigat, Baringo County, Kenya
Rehema Liyai, Gathii Kimita, Clement Masakhwe, David Abuom, Beth Mutai, David Miruka Onyango, John Waitumbi
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12067 PubMed 34557350
August 18, 2021
Phylogenetic relationships, origin and historical biogeography of the genus Sprattus (Clupeiformes: Clupeidae)
Cristian B. Canales-Aguirre, Peter A. Ritchie, Sebastián Hernández, Victoria Herrera-Yañez, Sandra Ferrada Fuentes, Fernanda X. Oyarzún, Cristián E. Hernández, Ricardo Galleguillos, Gloria Arratia
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11737 PubMed 34466280
June 29, 2021
Evolutionary relationships among the snakelike pygopodid lizards: a review of phylogenetic studies of an enigmatic Australian adaptive radiation
W. Bryan Jennings
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11502 PubMed 34249485
June 22, 2021
Host migration and environmental temperature influence avian haemosporidians prevalence: a molecular survey in a Brazilian Atlantic rainforest
Raquel A. Rodrigues, Gabriel M.F. Felix, Mauro Pichorim, Patricia A. Moreira, Erika M. Braga
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11555 PubMed 34221715
July 16, 2020
Genetic variation of the Chilean endemic long-haired mouse Abrothrix longipilis (Rodentia, Supramyomorpha, Cricetidae) in a geographical and environmental context
Lourdes Valdez, Marcial Quiroga-Carmona, Guillermo D’Elía
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9517 PubMed 32742796
May 21, 2020
Insights on early mutational events in SARS-CoV-2 virus reveal founder effects across geographical regions
Carlos Farkas, Francisco Fuentes-Villalobos, Jose Luis Garrido, Jody Haigh, María Inés Barría
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9255 PubMed 32509472
March 17, 2020
Climatic variation in Africa and Europe has combined effects on timing of spring migration in a long-distance migrant Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
Magdalena Remisiewicz, Les G. Underhill
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8770 PubMed 32211237
January 9, 2020
Genetic structure of Australian glass shrimp, Paratya australiensis, in relation to altitude
Sharmeen Rahman, Daniel Schmidt, Jane M. Hughes
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8139 PubMed 31942250
October 25, 2019
New Bohaiornis-like bird from the Early Cretaceous of China: enantiornithine interrelationships and flight performance
Luis M. Chiappe, Meng Qingjin, Francisco Serrano, Trond Sigurdsen, Wang Min, Alyssa Bell, Liu Di
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7846 PubMed 31667014
September 24, 2019
Characterizing gene tree conflict in plastome-inferred phylogenies
Joseph F. Walker, Nathanael Walker-Hale, Oscar M. Vargas, Drew A. Larson, Gregory W. Stull
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7747 PubMed 31579615
September 13, 2019
Genome skimming is a low-cost and robust strategy to assemble complete mitochondrial genomes from ethanol preserved specimens in biodiversity studies
Bruna Trevisan, Daniel M.C. Alcantara, Denis Jacob Machado, Fernando P.L. Marques, Daniel J.G. Lahr
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7543 PubMed 31565556
August 30, 2019
Comparative and evolutionary analysis of the reptilian hedgehog gene family (Shh, Dhh, and Ihh)
Tian Xia, Honghai Zhang, Lei Zhang, Xiufeng Yang, Guolei Sun, Jun Chen, Dajie Xu, Chao Zhao
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7613 PubMed 31531274
July 2, 2019
The impact of one-decade ecological disturbance on genetic changes: a study on the brine shrimp Artemia urmiana from Urmia Lake, Iran
Alireza Asem, Amin Eimanifar, Gilbert van Stappen, Shi-Chun Sun
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7190 PubMed 31304060
June 4, 2019
CAM: an alignment-free method to recover phylogenies using codon aversion motifs
Justin B. Miller, Lauren M. McKinnon, Michael F. Whiting, Perry G. Ridge
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6984 PubMed 31198636
February 6, 2019
Turtles of the genera Geoemyda and Pangshura (Testudines: Geoemydidae) lack differentiated sex chromosomes: the end of a 40-year error cascade for Pangshura
Sofia Mazzoleni, Barbora Augstenová, Lorenzo Clemente, Markus Auer, Uwe Fritz, Peter Praschag, Tomáš Protiva, Petr Velenský, Lukáš Kratochvíl, Michail Rovatsos
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6241 PubMed 30755825
December 6, 2018
Diversity of social-genetic relationships in the socially monogamous pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) breeding in Western Siberia
Vladimir G. Grinkov, Andreas Bauer, Sergey I. Gashkov, Helmut Sternberg, Michael Wink
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6059 PubMed 30564520
June 27, 2018
A new, three-dimensional geometric morphometric approach to assess egg shape
Marie R.G. Attard, Emma Sherratt, Paul McDonald, Iain Young, Marta Vidal-García, Stephen Wroe
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5052 PubMed 29967731
May 4, 2018
Candidate genes associated with red colour formation revealed by comparative genomic variant analysis of red- and green-skinned fruits of Japanese apricot (Prunus mume)
Xiaopeng Ni, Song Xue, Shahid Iqbal, Wanxu Wang, Zhaojun Ni, Muhammad Khalil-ur-Rehman, Zhihong Gao
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4625 PubMed 29740511
April 16, 2018
Distinctive courtship phenotype of the Vogelkop Superb Bird-of-Paradise Lophorina niedda Mayr, 1930 confirms new species status
Edwin Scholes, Timothy G. Laman
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4621 PubMed 29682415
March 20, 2018
Squeezing water from a stone: high-throughput sequencing from a 145-year old holotype resolves (barely) a cryptic species problem in flying lizards
Jimmy A. McGuire, Darko D. Cotoras, Brendan O’Connell, Shobi Z.S. Lawalata, Cynthia Y. Wang-Claypool, Alexander Stubbs, Xiaoting Huang, Guinevere O.U. Wogan, Sarah M. Hykin, Sean B. Reilly, Ke Bi, Awal Riyanto, Evy Arida, Lydia L. Smith, Heather Milne, Jeffrey W. Streicher, Djoko T. Iskandar
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4470 PubMed 29576952
December 13, 2017
Characterization of a de novo assembled transcriptome of the Common Blackbird (Turdus merula)
Sven Koglin, Daronja Trense, Michael Wink, Hedwig Sauer-Gürth, Dieter Thomas Tietze
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4045 PubMed 29255646
August 31, 2017
Intraclutch eggshell colour variation in birds: are females able to identify their eggs individually?
Miroslav Poláček, Michaela Bartíková, Herbert Hoi
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3707 PubMed 28875071
August 29, 2017
Dinosaur origin of egg color: oviraptors laid blue-green eggs
Jasmina Wiemann, Tzu-Ruei Yang, Philipp N. Sander, Marion Schneider, Marianne Engeser, Stephanie Kath-Schorr, Christa E. Müller, P. Martin Sander
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3706 PubMed 28875070
August 18, 2017
Genomic evidence of bitter taste in snakes and phylogenetic analysis of bitter taste receptor genes in reptiles
Huaming Zhong, Shuai Shang, Xiaoyang Wu, Jun Chen, Wanchao Zhu, Jiakuo Yan, Haotian Li, Honghai Zhang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3708 PubMed 28828281
May 18, 2017
A genome-wide assessment of stages of elevational parapatry in Bornean passerine birds reveals no introgression: implications for processes and patterns of speciation
Robert G. Moyle, Joseph D. Manthey, Peter A. Hosner, Mustafa Rahman, Maklarin Lakim, Frederick H. Sheldon
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3335 PubMed 28533979
April 18, 2017
Migratory orientation in a narrow avian hybrid zone
David P.L. Toews, Kira E. Delmore, Matthew M. Osmond, Philip D. Taylor, Darren E. Irwin
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3201 PubMed 28439469
January 10, 2017
Contrasting molecular and morphological evidence for the identification of an anomalous Buteo: a cautionary tale for hybrid diagnosis
William S. Clark, Spencer C. Galen, Joshua M. Hull, Megan A. Mayo, Christopher C. Witt
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2850 PubMed 28097061
November 9, 2016
A global analysis of bird plumage patterns reveals no association between habitat and camouflage
Marius Somveille, Kate L.A. Marshall, Thanh-Lan Gluckman
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2658 PubMed 27867762
November 3, 2016
Environmental, land cover and land use constraints on the distributional patterns of anurans: Leptodacylus species (Anura, Leptodactylidae) from Dry Chaco
Regina Gabriela Medina, Maria Laura Ponssa, Ezequiel Aráoz
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2605 PubMed 27833796
September 6, 2016
A new rauisuchid (Archosauria, Pseudosuchia) from the Upper Triassic (Norian) of New Mexico increases the diversity and temporal range of the clade
Emily J. Lessner, Michelle R. Stocker, Nathan D. Smith, Alan H. Turner, Randall B. Irmis, Sterling J. Nesbitt
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2336 PubMed 27651983
June 15, 2016
Identification, expression and variation of the GNPDA2 gene, and its association with body weight and fatness traits in chicken
Hongjia Ouyang, Huan Zhang, Weimin Li, Sisi Liang, Endashaw Jebessa, Bahareldin A. Abdalla, Qinghua Nie
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2129 PubMed 27326383
February 23, 2016
Spider phylogenomics: untangling the Spider Tree of Life
Nicole L. Garrison, Juanita Rodriguez, Ingi Agnarsson, Jonathan A. Coddington, Charles E. Griswold, Christopher A. Hamilton, Marshal Hedin, Kevin M. Kocot, Joel M. Ledford, Jason E. Bond
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1719 PubMed 26925338
December 7, 2015
The first dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous Bayan Gobi Formation of Nei Mongol, China
Michael Pittman, Rui Pei, Qingwei Tan, Xing Xu
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1480 PubMed 26664809
April 21, 2015
Similarity thresholds used in DNA sequence assembly from short reads can reduce the comparability of population histories across species
Michael G. Harvey, Caroline Duffie Judy, Glenn F. Seeholzer, James M. Maley, Gary R. Graves, Robb T. Brumfield
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.895 PubMed 25922792
March 19, 2015
Patterns of evolution of MHC class II genes of crows (Corvus) suggest trans-species polymorphism
John A. Eimes, Andrea K. Townsend, Irem Sepil, Isao Nishiumi, Yoko Satta
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.853 PubMed 25802816
December 23, 2014
Ontogenetic scaling patterns and functional anatomy of the pelvic limb musculature in emus (Dromaius novaehollandiae)
Luis P. Lamas, Russell P. Main, John R. Hutchinson
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.716 PubMed 25551028
September 30, 2014
Spatial genetic structure across a hybrid zone between European rabbit subspecies
Fernando Alda, Ignacio Doadrio
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.582 PubMed 25289181
April 8, 2014
Bone microstructure and the evolution of growth patterns in Permo-Triassic therocephalians (Amniota, Therapsida) of South Africa
Adam K. Huttenlocker, Jennifer Botha-Brink
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.325 PubMed 24765566

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Could you use MP-EST to conduct topology tests in a coalescent framework?
about Early-branching euteleost relationships: areas of congruence between concatenation and coalescent model inferences