Publications
Smith, V. S. (In press)
Phthiraptera (parasitic lice).
In 'Identification handbook of the insects and arachnids of Greenland' (J. Böcher, ed.) University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen. N.b. This chapter has been in press for many years. The editors are still waiting for some final chapters before the volume will be published.
Smith, V.S., Rycroft, S.D., Harman, K.T. Scott, B., Roberts, D. (2009)
Scratchpads: a data-publishing framework to build, share and manage information on the diversity of life
BMC Bioinformatics. 2009, 10 (Suppl 14): S6doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S14-S6.
Smith, V.S. (2009)
Data publication: towards a database of everything
BMC Research Notes, 2: 113. doi:10.1186/1756-0500-2-113
Smith, V.S, Rycroft, S.D., Roberts, D. (2008)
Scratchpads: Getting Biodiversity online, redefining publication.
Proceedings of BNCOD 2008 "Biodiversity Informatics: challenges in modeling and managing biodiversity knowledge". Cardiff University, UK, 10th July 2008. Officially available online at: http://biodiversity.cs.cf.ac.uk/bncod/SmithEtAl.pdf
Roberts, D. Rycroft, S.D., Brake, I., Harman, K., Scott B. & Smith, V.S. (2008)
Getting Taxonomy onto the Web.
The Systematist. 30: 3-10.
Smith, V.S., Light, J.E. and Durden, L.A (2008)
Rodent louse diversity, phylogeny, and cospeciation in the Manu Biosphere Reserve, Peru.
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 95:598-610.
Mayo, S. J., Allkin, R., Baker, W., Blagoderov, V., Brake, I., Clark, B., Govaerts, R., Godfray, C., Haigh, A., Hand, R., Harman (2008)
Alpha e-taxonomy: responses from the systematics community to the biodiversity crisis.
Kew Bulletin. 63:1-16.
Beccaloni, G.W. and Smith, V.S. (2008)
Celebrations for Darwin downplay Wallace’s role.
Nature. 451: 1050.
Roberts, D., Rycroft, S.D., González, M., and Smith, V.S. (2007)
Scratchpads: what are they?
European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy News (newsletter article).
Cohn, D.L., Smith, V.S., Pizarro, M., Jones-Engel, L., Engel, G., Fuentes, A., Shaw, E., Cortes, J. (2007)
Pediculosis in Macaca sylvanus of Gibraltar.
Veterinary Parasitology. 145(1-2):116-9.
Smith, V. S., Dalgleish, R.C., & Cruickshank, R. H. (2007)
Fossil lice reconsidered - Erratum.
Systematic Entomology. 32: 196.
Smith, V. S. (2007)
Phthiraptera
In 'McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology,' McGraw-Hill Professional, New York.
Dalgleish, R. C., Palma, R. L., Price, R. D., Smith, V. S. (2006)
Fossil lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) reconsidered.
Systematic Entomology 31: 648-651. n.b. See also the erratum above.
Lane, R.S., Kucera, T., Barrett, R.H., Hasty, J.M., Wu, C. and Smith, V.S. (2006)
Wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) as a host ofixodid ticks, lice and lyme disease spirochetes (Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato) in Californian state parks.
Journal of Wildlife Diseases. 42: 759-771.
Smith, V.S. (2004)
Phthiraptera: Chewing and sucking lice.
In (Gale Research Staff, ed.)Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. Vol 3 (Insects), Gale Group, USA. pp. 249-257.
Smith, V.S. (2004)
Lousy phylogenies: Phthiraptera systematics and the antiquity of lice.
Proceedings of the Meeting on Phylogenetic Relationships within the Insect Orders (Dresden, September 2003). - Entomologische Abhandlungen 61: 150-151.
Smith, V.S. (2004)
Lousy Lists (Book review of "The Chewing Lice: World Checklist and Biological Overview" by R. D. Price, R. A. Hellenthal, R. L. Palma, K. P. Johnson, D. H. Clayton).
Systematic Biology 53 (4) 666-668.
Johnson, K.P., Cruickshank, R.H., Adams, R.J., Smith, V.S., Page, R.D.M. Clayton, D.H. (2003)
Dramatically elevated rate of mitochondrial substitution in lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera).
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 26:231-242.
Smith, V.S. (2003)
Ex Cathedra Cladistics (Book review of "Cladistics: A Practical Primer on CD-ROM" by Peter Skelton, Andrew Smith, and Neale Monks).
Heredity. 91: 96-97.
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