Stephen James O'Brien

Stephen James O'Brien (born September 30, 1944), U.S. zoologist.

Stephen James O'Brien

Author abbreviation: O'Brien

Taxon names authored

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• 1 taxon names authored by Stephen James O'Brien

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2001

• Murphy, W.J., Eizirik, E., O'Brien, S.J., Madsen, O., Scally, M., Douady, C.J., Teeling, E., Ryder, O.A., Stanhope, M.J., de Jong, W.W. & Springer, M.S. 2001. Resolution of the early placental mammal radiation using Bayesian phylogenetics. Science 294(5550): 2348–2351. DOI: 10.1126/science.1067179. Reference page. 

2007

• Miller-Butterworth, C.M., Murphy, W.J., O'Brien S.J., Jacobs, D.S., Springer, M.S. & Teeling, E.C. 2007. A family matter: conclusive resolution of the taxonomic position of the long-fingered bats, Miniopterus. Molecular Biology and Evolution 24(7): 1553–1561. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msm076 Reference page. 

2010

• Werdelin, L., Yamaguchi, N., Johnson, W.E. & O'Brien, S.J. 2010. Phylogeny and evolution of cats (Felidae). Pp. 59–82. In Macdonald, D.W. & Loveridge, A.J. (eds) Biology and Conservation of Wild Felids. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-923445-5. ResearchGate Reference page. 

2011

• Perelman, P., Johnson, W.E., Roos, C., Seuánez, H.N., Horvath, J.E., Moreira, M.A.M., Kessing, B., Pontius, J., Roelke, M., Rumpler, Y., Schneider, M.P.C., Silva, A., O’Brien, S.J. & Pecon-Slattery, J. 2011. A molecular phylogeny of living primates. PLoS Genetics 7: e1001342. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001342 Reference page. 

2014

• Jarvis, E.D., Mirarab, S, Aberer, A.J., Li, B., Houde, P., Li, C., Ho, S.Y.W., Faircloth, B.C., Nabholz, B., Howard, J.T., Suh, A., Weber, C.C., da Fonseca, R.R., Li, J., Zhang, F., Li, H., Zhou, L., Narula, N., Liu, L., Ganapathy, G., Boussau, B., Bayzid, S., Zavidovych, V., Subramanian, S., Gabaldón, T., Capella-Gutiérrez, S., Huerta-Cepas, J., Rekepalli, B., Munch, K., Schierup, M., Lindow, B., Warren, W.C., Ray, D., Green, R.E., Bruford, M.W., Zhan, X., Dixon, A., Li, S., Li, N., Huang, Y., Derryberry, E.P., Bertelsen, M.F., Sheldon, F.H., Brumfield, R.T., Mello, C.V., Lovell, P.V., Wirthlin, M., Schneider, M.P.C., Prosdocimi, F., Samaniego, J.A., Vargas Velazquez, A.M., Alfaro-Núñez, A., Campos, P.F., Petersen, B., Sicheritz-Ponten, T., Pas, A., Bailey, T., Scofield, P., Bunce, M., Lambert, D.M., Zhou, Q., Perelman, P., Driskell, A.C., Shapiro, B., Xiong, Z., Zeng, Y., Liu, S., Li, Z., Liu, B., Wu, K., Xiao, J., Yinqi, X., Zheng, Q., Zhang, Y., Yang, H., Wang, J., Smeds, L., Rheindt, F.E., Braun, M., Fjeldså, J., Orlando, L., Barker, F.K., Jønsson, K.A., Johnson, W., Koepfli, K.-P., O’Brien, S.J., Haussler, D., Ryder, O.A., Rahbek, C., Willerslev, E., Graves, G.R., Glenn, T.C., McCormack, J., Burt, D., Ellegren, H., Alström, P., Edwards, S.V., Stamatakis, A., Mindell, D.P., Cracraft, J., Braun, E.L., Warnow, T., Jun, W., Gilbert, M.T.P. & Zhang, G. 2014. Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds. Science 346 (6215): 1320–1331. DOI: 10.1126/science.1253451 ResearchGate. Supplementary materials: PDF Reference page.