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Scott V. Edwards

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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).

Evolutionary Studies Genetics Genomics Zoology

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Harvard University

Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

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June 11, 2013

Major histocompatibility complex class I evolution in songbirds: universal primers, rapid evolution and base compositional shifts in exon 3

18 citations

636 downloads

2,742 views

Miguel Alcaide, Mark Liu, Scott V. Edwards

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.86 PubMed 23781408

July 6, 2017 - Version: 1

Conceptual and empirical advances in Neotropical biodiversity research

335 downloads

1,215 views

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 31, 2017

Intraclutch eggshell colour variation in birds: are females able to identify their eggs individually?

169 downloads

969 views

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

684 downloads

7,625 views

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

112 downloads

467 views

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

2 citations

253 downloads

1,247 views

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

159 downloads

840 views

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

123 downloads

649 views

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

1 citation

330 downloads

1,212 views

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

193 downloads

717 views

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

1 citation

1,383 downloads

5,130 views

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

244 downloads

785 views

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

33 citations

2,358 downloads

14,370 views

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

763 downloads

2,537 views

Michael Pittman, Rui Pei, Qingwei Tan, Xing Xu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1480 PubMed 26664809

April 21, 2015

18 citations

490 downloads

2,056 views

Michael G. Harvey, Caroline Duffie Judy, Glenn F. Seeholzer, James M. Maley, Gary R. Graves, Robb T. Brumfield