History

Eldredge Bermingham

Director and Senior Staff Scientist

Eldredge Bermingham

e-mail: bermingham@si.edu

LinkLink: Bermingham's Laboratory

Address: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Apartado Postal 0843-03092
Balboa, Ancon, Republic of Panama

or

MRC 0580-12
Unit 9100 BOX 0948
DPO AA 34002-9998
USA

Telephone: +507 212-8729

FAX: +507 212-8790 / 8091

 

Publications

LinkPublications by Eldredge Bermingham

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Research Interests

Molecular population genetics and evolutionary biology; historical biogeograpy and molecular systematics of neotropical fishes and Caribbean island birds.

Current Research

Molecular population genetics and evolutionary biology

Education and Degrees

B. A., Cornell University, 1977.
Ph. D., University of Georgia, 1986.

Selected Bibliography

Puebla, Oscar, Bermingham, Eldredge and Guichard, Frederic. 2008. Population genetic analyses of Hypoplectrus coral reef fishes provide evidence that local processes are operating during the early stages of marine adaptive radiations. Molecular ecology 17(6): 1405-1415.

Huber, Sarah K., De Leon, Luis Fernando, Hendry, Andrew P., Bermingham, Eldredge and Podos, Jeffrey. 2007. Reproductive isolation of sympatric morphs in a population of Darwin's finches. Proceedings of the Royal Society (London) B 274(1619): 1709–1714.

Puebla, Oscar, Bermingham, Eldredge, Guichard, Frederick and Whiteman, E. 2007. Colour pattern as a single trait driving speciation in Hypoplectrus coral reef fishes?. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274(1615): 1265-1271.

Ricklefs, Robert E. and Bermingham, Eldredge. 2007. The causes of evolutionary radiations in Archipelagoes: Passerine birds in the Lesser Antilles. American Naturalist 169(3): 285–297.

Mavarez, Jesus, Salazar, Camilo A., Bermingham, Eldredge, Salcedo, Christian, Jiggins, Chris D. and Linares, Mauricio. 2006. Speciation by hybridization in Heliconius butterflies. Nature 441(7095): 868-871.

Bermingham, Eldredge, Dick, Christopher W. and Moritz, Craig (Ed.). 2005. Tropical rainforests: past, present, and future. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.