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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

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PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

Harvard University

Chalmers University of Technology

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Professor and Curator

Harvard University

Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

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PeerJ Contributions

November 27, 2024

Effects of plastic ingestion on blood chemistry, gene expression and body condition in wedge-tailed shearwaters (Ardenna pacifica)

Nicole Mejia, Flavia Termignoni-Garcia, Jennifer Learned, Jay Penniman, Scott V. Edwards

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18566 PubMed 39619179

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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July 8, 2025

Molecular evolution of TRPC4 regulatory sequences supports a role in mammalian thermoregulatory adaptation

Robert S. Cornman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19697 PubMed 40656937

January 30, 2025

A new species of parrot snake, Leptophis (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Brazilian Cerrado

Nelson R. Albuquerque, Roullien H. Martins, Priscila S. Carvalho, Donald B. Shepard, Diego J. Santana

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18528 PubMed 39897499

February 28, 2024

Double jeopardy: global change and interspecies competition threaten Siberian cranes

Linqiang Gao, Chunrong Mi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17029 PubMed 38436031

December 6, 2023

Phylogenetic diversity and North Andean block conservation

Omar Daniel Leon-Alvarado, Daniel R. Miranda-Esquivel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16565 PubMed 38077412

September 18, 2023

Robustness of genetic diversity measures under spatial sampling and a new frequency-independent measure

Satoshi Aoki, Fumiko Ishihama, Keita Fukasawa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16027 PubMed 37744217

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

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