Parque Nacional Soberania, Panama
Our lab carries out studies in the areas of evolutionary biology, genetics and molecular systematics. Our principal research interest is biogeography and history-based analysis of community assembly, diversification and maintenance. We have focused our attention on two regional community assemblages:1) the birds of the Lesser Antilles 2) the neotropical freshwater fishes of lower Central America. The lab uses the tools of molecular biology to infer the phylogenetic and demographic histories of the taxa comprising these avian and freshwater fish communities. Because we are interested in the tempo as well as the mode of evolutionary change in these communities, we also study the behavior of molecular clocks. Our molecular clock studies have tended to focus on the molecular divergence between marine species pairs found on either side of the isthmus of Panama.
Our lab is part of the Naos Laboratories located near the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal in the Republic of Panama. The lab is part of STRI's Molecular Systematics and Evolution Group along with the labs of Haris Lessios, Nancy Knowlton and a visiting scientists laboratory.
The last five publications from Bermingham
| Guarnizo, Carlos E.,Amezquita, Adolfo, and Bermingham, Eldredge - 2009 - The relative roles of vicarianceversus elevational gradients inthe genetic differentiation of the high Andean tree frog Dendropsophus labialis - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution - 50(1) - 84-92 |
| Vanegas-Anaya, Myriam, Crawford, Andrew J., Escobedo-Galvan, Armando H., Sanjur, Oris I., Densmore III, Llewellyn D., and Bermingham, Eldredge - 2008 - "Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography of Caiman crocodilus in Mesoamerica and South America." - Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology - 309A Online - |
| Arias, Carlos F., Munoz, Astrid G., Jiggins, Christopher D., Mavarez, Jesus, Bermingham, Eldredge, and Linares, Mauricio - 2008 - "A hybrid zone provides evidence for incipient ecological speciation in Heliconius butterflies." - Molecular Ecology - 17(21): - 4699-4712 |
| Caballero-George, Caterina, Sorkalla, T.,Bermingham, Eldredge, and Haberlein, H. - 2008 - "Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) a powerful biophysic method for drug discovery: Study of Alexa532- endothelia 1 binding on the endothelia ETA receptor on living cells." - Planta Medica - 74 (9): 1156-1157 - |
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| Weir, Jason, Bermingham, Eldredge, Miller, Matthew, Klicka, John and Gonzalez, Maribel - 2008 - Phylogeography of a morphologically diverse Neotropical montane species, the common Bush-Tanager (Chlorospingus ophthalmicus) - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution - 47: - 650-664 |
The last five publications from Bermingham's lab
| Jones, FA and LS Comita - 2008 - Neighborhood density and genetic relatedness interact to determine fruit set and abortion rates in a continuous tropical tree population - Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B - 275 - 2759-2767 |
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| Jason T. Weir, Eldredge Bermingham, Matthew J. Miller, John Klicka and Maribel A. González - 2008 - Phylogeography of a morphologically diverse Neotropical montane species, the Common Bush-Tanager (Chlorospingus ophthalmicus) - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution - 47 - 650-664 |
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| F. A. Jones & H. Muller-Landau - 2008 - Measuring long distance seed dispersal in complex natural environments: an evaluation and integration of classical and genetic methods - Journal of Ecology - 96 - 642-652 |
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| Dick, CW, Hardy, OJ, Jones, FA, Petit RJ - 2008 - Spatial scales of pollen and seed-mediated gene flow in tropical rain forest trees - Journal of Tropical Plant Biology - in press - |
| R.E. Meadows & K. Saltonstall - 2007 - . Distribution of native and non-native populations of Phragmites australis in oligohaline marshes of the Delmarva Peninsula - Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society - 134(1) - 99-107 |
