Giacomo Bernardi is a

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Ecology Ecology () is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere level. Ecology overl ...

and

Evolutionary Biology Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes ( natural selection, common descent, speciation) that produced the diversity of life on Earth. It is also defined as the study of the history of life ...

University of California Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California syste ...

. He earned his B.A., M.S., and Ph.D. at the

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and did

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work from 1991 to 1994 at

Hopkins Marine Station Hopkins Marine Station is the marine laboratory of Stanford University. It is located ninety miles south of the university's main campus, in Pacific Grove, California (United States) on the Monterey Peninsula, adjacent to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. ...

at Stanford University. His research includes working on

phylogeography Phylogeography is the study of the historical processes that may be responsible for the past to present geographic distributions of genealogical lineages. This is accomplished by considering the geographic distribution of individuals in light of ge ...

, speciation and molecular ecology of fishes, particularly in fishes lacking a pelagic larval phase,

Gulf of California The Gulf of California ( es, Golfo de California), also known as the Sea of Cortés (''Mar de Cortés'') or Sea of Cortez, or less commonly as the Vermilion Sea (''Mar Bermejo''), is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean that separates the Baja C ...

and

Pacific The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contine ...

disjunct species, and in surfperches ( Embiotocidae). His research compares phylogeographic and gene expression patterns to test for local adaptation in a high gene flow species. He is also interested in population structure of coastal and island groupers. He also investigates adult population structure and the structure of a new year-class within ''Sebastes mystinus'' ( blue rockfish) and ''Sebastes atrovirens'' ( kelp rockfish) over multiple temporal and spatial scales. He studies at the Richard Gump South Pacific Research Station.

Selected publications

*Robertson DR, Karg F, de Moura RL, Victor BC, and Bernardi G. 2006. "Mechanisms of speciation and faunal enrichment in Atlantic parrotfishes". ''Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution'' 40: 795-807 *Bernardi, G. and J. Lape. 2005. "Tempo and mode of speciation in the Baja California disjunct fish species ''Anisotremus davidsonii''". ''Molecular Ecology'' 14: 4085-4096. *Bernardi, G. 2005. "Phylogeography and demography of sympatric sister species, Embiotoca jacksoni and E. lateralis along the California coast: Historical versus ecological factors". ''Evolution'' 59 386-394. *Crow, K.D., Kanamoto, Z., and Bernardi, G. 2004. "Molecular phylogeny of the hexagrammid fishes using a multi-locus approach". ''Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution'' 32: 986-997. *Bernardi, G., Bucciarelli, G., Costagliola, D., Robertson, D.R., and Heiser, J.B. 2003. "Evolution of coral reef fish ''Thalassoma'' spp. (Labridae): 1.Molecular phylogeny and biogeography". ''Marine Biology'' 144:369-375. *Costagliola, D., Robertson, D.R., Guidetti, P., Stefanni, S., Wirtz, P., Heiser, J.B., and Bernardi, G. 2003. "Evolution of the coral reef fish Thalassoma spp. (Labridae): 2. Evolution of the eastern Atlantic species". ''Marine Biology'' 144:377-383. *Bernardi, G., Holbrook, S.J., Schmitt, R.J., and Crane, N.L. 2003. "Genetic evidence for two distanct clades in a French Ploynesian population of the coral reef three-spot damselfish, Dascyllus trimaculatus". ''Marine Biology'' 143:485-490. *Bernardi, G., Findley, L., and Rocha-Olivares, A. 2003. "Vicariance and dispersal across Baja California in disjunct marine fish populations". ''Evolution'' 57:1599-1609. *Fauvelot, C., Bernardi, G., Bonhomme, F., and Planes, S. 2003. "Reductions in the mitochondrial DNA diversity of coral reef fish provide evidence of population bottlenecks resulting from Holocene sea-level change", ''Evolution'' 57:1571-1583. *Bucciarelli, G., Golani, D., and Bernardi, G. 2002. "Genetic cryptic species as biological invaders: The case of a Lessepsian fish migrant, the hardyhead silverside Atherinomorus lacunosus". ''J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol'' 273:143-149. *Bernardi, G., Holbrook, S.J., Schmitt, R.J., Crane, N.L., and DeMartini, E. 2002. "Species boundaries, populations, and colour morphs in the coral reef three-spot damselfish (Dascyllus trimaculatus) species-complex". ''Proc. Roy. Soc. London'' 269:599-605. *Planes, S., Doherty, P., and Bernardi, G. 2001. "Unusual case of extreme genetic divergence in a marine fish, Acanthochromis polyacanthus, within the Great Barrier Reef and the Coral Sea". ''Evolution'' 55:2263-2273. *Bernardi G., Holbrook S.J., and Schmitt R.J. 2001. "Dispersal of the coral reef three-spot dascyllus, ''Dascyllus trimaculatus'', at three spatial scales". ''Mar. Biol''. 138:457-465. *Huang, D., and Bernardi, G. 2001. "Disjunct Sea of Cortez - Pacific Ocean ''Gillichthys mirabilis'' populations and the evolutionary origin of their paedomorphic relative, ''Gillichthys seta''". ''Mar. Biol''. 138:421-428.

References

External links

Giacamo Bernadi profile

"Giacomo Bernardi", ''Scientific Commons''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bernardi, Giacomo University of California, Santa Cruz faculty American ecologists University of Paris alumni Stanford University alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Marine fauna researchers of the Gulf of California American expatriates in France