Scott J. Steppan

Scott J. Steppan, U.S. zoologist.

• Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 2 taxon names authored by Scott J. Steppan

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1995

• Steppan, S.J. 1995. Revision of the Tribe Phyllotini (Rodentia, Sigmodontinae), with a Phylogenetic Hypothesis for the Sigmodontinae. Fieldiana Zoology. New Series 80: 1–112. BHL Reference page. 

1999

• Steppan, S.J., Akhverdyan, M.R., Lyapunova, E.A., Fraser, D.G., Vorontsov, N.N., Hoffmann, R.S. & Braun, M.J. 1999. Molecular Phylogeny of the Marmots (Rodentia: Sciuridae): Tests of Evolutionary and Biogeographic Hypotheses. Systematic Biology 48(4): 715–734. DOI: 10.1080/106351599259988 Reference page. 

2004

• Steppan, S.J., Adkins, R.M. & Anderson, J. 2004. Phylogeny and divergence-date estimates of rapid radiations in muroid rodents based on multiple nuclear genes. Systematic Biology 53(4): 533–553. DOI: 10.1080/10635150490468701 Reference page. 

2007

• Steppan, S.J., Ramirez, O., Banbury, J., Huchon, D., Pacheco, V., Walker, L.I. & Spotorno, A.E. 2007. A molecular reappraisal of the systematics of the leaf- eared mice Phyllotis and their relatives. Pp. 799–826. In Kelt, D.A., Lessa, E., Salazar-Bravo, J. and Patton, J.L. (Eds.) The quintessential naturalist: Honoring the life and legacy of Oliver P. Pearson. University of California Publications in Zoology 134: v-xii + 1–981. DOI: 10.1525/california/9780520098596.001.0001 Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

2008

• Harshman, J., Braun, E.L., Braun, M.J., Huddleston, C.J., Bowie, R.C.K., Chojnowski, J.L., Hackett, S.J., Han, K.-L., Kimball, R.T., Marks, B.D., Miglia, K.J., Moore, W.S., Reddy, S., Sheldon, F.H., Steadman, D.W., Steppan, S.J., Witt, C.C. & Yuri, T. 2008. Phylogenomic evidence for multiple losses of flight in ratite birds. PNAS 105(36): 13462–13467. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0803242105 Reference page. 
• Rowe, K.C., Reno, M.L., Richmond, D.M., Adkins, R.M. & Steppan, S.J. 2008. Pliocene colonization and adaptive radiations in Australia and New Guinea (Sahul): multilocus systematics of the old endemic rodents (Muroidea: Murinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47(1): 84–101. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.01.001 Reference page. 

2013

• Schenk, J.J., Rowe, K.C. & Steppan, S.J. 2013. Ecological Opportunity and Incumbency in the Diversification of Repeated Continental Colonizations by Muroid Rodents. Systematic Biology 62(6): 837–864. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syt050 Reference page. 

2017

• Steppan, S.J. & Schenk, J.J. 2017. Muroid rodent phylogenetics: 900-species tree reveals increasing diversification rates. PLoS ONE 12(8): e0183070. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0183070 Reference page. 
• Wray, K.P. & Steppan, S.J. 2017. Ecological opportunity, historical biogeography and diversification in a major lineage of salamanders. Journal of Biogeography 44(4): 797–809. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12931 Reference page. 
• Wray, K.P., Means, D.B. & Steppan, S.J. 2017. Revision of the Eurycea quadridigitata (Holbrook 1842) complex of Dwarf Salamanders (Caudata: Plethodontidae: Hemidactyliinae) with a description of two new species. Herpetological Monographs 31(1): 18–46. DOI: 10.1655/HERPMONOGRAPHS-D-16-00011 Reference page. 

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ZooBank: 74F677A2-46A3-404A-B07A-5120ABB70D2D