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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).

Biodiversity Biogeography Evolutionary Studies Genomics Zoology

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Harvard University

Chalmers University of Technology

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Professor and Curator

Harvard University

Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

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January 28, 2020

The Global Museum: natural history collections and the future of evolutionary science and public education

1 citation

920 downloads

4,167 views

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

3 citations

499 downloads

2,443 views

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

2 citations

527 downloads

2,073 views

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

29 citations

1,864 downloads

6,815 views

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

30 citations

1,875 downloads

8,491 views

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

27 citations

939 downloads

4,080 views

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

1,020 downloads

1,871 views

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

1,182 downloads

1,022 views

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

1,056 downloads

1,039 views

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

1,842 downloads

1,299 views

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

1,837 downloads

3,329 views

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

1,422 downloads

2,591 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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May 21, 2020

Insights on early mutational events in SARS-CoV-2 virus reveal founder effects across geographical regions

1 citation

215 downloads

1,494 views

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

311 downloads

923 views

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

207 downloads

988 views

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

2 citations

844 downloads

1,869 views

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

13 citations

1,029 downloads

2,158 views

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

2 citations

825 downloads

1,387 views

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)

244 downloads

579 views

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

2 citations

347 downloads

678 views

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

2 citations

841 downloads

1,298 views

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

9 citations

293 downloads

1,332 views

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

296 downloads

1,479 views

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

4 citations

668 downloads

2,554 views

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)

1 citation

442 downloads

2,038 views

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

6 citations

1,103 downloads

15,537 views

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

12 citations

461 downloads

2,919 views

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)

2 citations

377 downloads

2,221 views

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?

8 citations

476 downloads

2,170 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

16 citations

2,150 downloads

16,318 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

4 citations

491 downloads

2,248 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

16 citations

546 downloads

2,374 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

3 citations

441 downloads

1,880 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

3 citations

357 downloads

1,618 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

7 citations

659 downloads

3,004 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

4 citations

426 downloads

2,081 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

5 citations

1,978 downloads

10,586 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

4 citations

515 downloads

1,710 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

134 citations

3,838 downloads

26,478 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

3 citations

1,273 downloads

3,831 views

Michael Pittman, Rui Pei, Qingwei Tan, Xing Xu

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

April 21, 2015

43 citations

778 downloads

3,269 views