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DR. ANDREW VAN ZANDT BROWER
Professor
CONTACT:
E-mail:
Andrew.Brower@mtsu.edu
Phone: (615) 898-2064
Fax: (615) 898-5093
Office Location:
Haynes House, Rm. 5
Mail Address:
Department of Biology
P.O. Box 60
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
Website:
http://frank.mtsu.edu/~abrower/
EDUCATION:
B.A., 1985, Yale College (major in biology)
M.E.S., 1987, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental
Studies
(concentrations in conservation biology and museology)
Ph.D., 1994, Cornell University, Section of Ecology and
Systematics
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
My empirical research is focused on the molecular
systematics, biogeography and evolution of butterflies,
mainly in the family Nymphalidae. I am also interested in
theoretical principles and methods of systematic biology
and biological nomenclature.
OTHER ACTIVE APPOINTMENTS:
Research Associate, Dept. of Entomology, National Museum
of Natural History,
Research Associate, Dept. of Invertebrates, American
Museum of Natural History,
Associate Editor, Cladistics
Associate Editor , Systematics and Biodiversity
Editorial Board, Canadian Entomologist
Rhopalocera TWIG leader, NSF ATOL Lepidoptera Grant
(Mitter, Regier, Cummings, Parr, Weller, Davis)
Taxonomy Advisor (Rhopalocera), NCBI GenBank
DISSEMINATION RECORD:
Publications: 103 total authored, co-authored or edited
(57 peer-reviewed research publications, 1 book, 45
reviews, comments and published abstracts)
Web publications: ~2300 pages in the Tree of Life
www.tolweb.org
Presentations: 96 total authored or co-authored (80
invited keynotes or lectures, 16 contributed
papers)
Selected peer-reviewed
publications—
Brower, AVZ. 1994. Rapid morphological
radiation and convergence in geographical races of the
butterfly,
Heliconius erato, inferred from patterns of
mitochondrial DNA evolution.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91:6491-6495.
Brower, AVZ. 1994. Phylogeny of
Heliconius butterflies inferred from
mitochondrial DNA sequences.
Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 3:159-174.
Brower, AVZ. and R DeSalle. 1994.
Practical and theoretical considerations for choice of a
DNA sequence region in insect molecular systematics, with
a short review of published studies using nuclear gene
regions.
Ann. Entomol. Soc. Amer. 87:702-716.
Brower, AVZ. 1995. Locomotor mimicry in
butterflies? A critical review of the evidence.
Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. Lond. B 347:
413-425.
Brower, AVZ. 1996. Parallel race
formation and the evolution of mimicry in
Heliconius butterflies: a phylogenetic
hypothesis from mitochondrial DNA sequences.
Evolution 50:195-221.
Brower, AVZ. 1996. A new mimetic species
of
Heliconius (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), from
southeastern Colombia, revealed by cladistic analysis of
mitochondrial DNA sequences.
Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 116:317-332.
Brower, AVZ, R DeSalle and AP Vogler.
1996. Gene trees, species trees, and systematics: a
cladistic perspective.
Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 27:423-450.
Brower, AVZ and VA Schawaroch. 1996.
Three steps of homology assessment.
Cladistics 12:265-272.
Miller, JS,
AVZ Brower and R DeSalle. 1997.
Phylogeny of the neotropical moth tribe Josiini
(Notodontidae: Dioptinae): Comparing and combining
evidence from DNA sequences and morphology.
Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 60: 297-316.
Brower, AVZ. 1997. The evolution of
ecologically important characters in
Heliconius butterflies (Lepidoptera:
Nymphalidae): a cladistic review.
Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 119: 457-472.
Brower, AVZ and MG Egan. 1997.
Cladistics of
Heliconius butterflies and relatives
(Nymphalidae: Heliconiiti): the phylogenetic position of
Eueides based on sequences from mtDNA and a nuclear gene.
Proc. Royal Soc. Lond. B 264: 969-977.
DeSalle, R and
AVZ Brower. 1997. Process partitions,
congruence and the independence of characters: inferring
relationships among closely-related Hawaiian
Drosophila from multiple gene regions.
Syst. Biol. 46: 751-764.
Brower, AVZ and R DeSalle. 1998.
Mitochondrial vs. nuclear DNA sequence evolution among
nymphalid butterflies: the utility of Wingless as a
source of characters for phylogenetic inference.
Insect Mol. Biol. 7: 1-10.
Brower, AVZ. 1999. The delimitation of
phylogenetic species with DNA sequences: a critique of
Davis and Nixon's population aggregation analysis.
Syst. Biol. 48: 199-213.
Brower, AVZ. 2000. Evolution is not a
necessary assumption of cladistics.
Cladistics 16: 143-154.
Campbell, DL,
AVZ Brower and NE Pierce. 2000.
Molecular evolution of the Wingless gene and its
implications for the phylogenetic placement of the
butterfly family Riodinidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea).
Mol. Biol. Evol.17: 684-696.
Brower, AVZ. 2000. Phylogenetic
relationships among the Nymphalidae (Lepidoptera),
inferred from partial sequences of the wingless gene.
Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 267: 1201-1211.
Brower, AVZ. 2002. Cladistics,
populations and species in geographical space: the case
of
Heliconius butterflies. Pp.5-16 in R DeSalle, WC
Wheeler and G Giribet (eds.),
Molecular Systematics and Evolution: theory and
practice. Birkhaüser Verlag.
Goldstein, PZ and
AVZ Brower. 2002. Molecular systematics
and the origin of species: new syntheses or
methodological introgressions? Pp. 147-161 in R DeSalle,
WC Wheeler and G Giribet (eds.),
Molecular Systematics and Evolution: theory and
practice. Birkhaüser Verlag.
Brower, AVZ and M Jeansonne. 2004.
Geographical populations and "subspecies"; of
New World monarch butterflies (
Danaus plexippus (L.) Nymphalidae) share a
recent origin and are not phylogenetically distinct.
Ann. Entomol. Soc. Amer. 97: 519-523.
Leathers, JW, DD Judd, and AVZ Brower. 2005. A review of
the species of the New World braconid genus
Cyclaulacidea (Hymenoptera) with key and
descriptions of nine new species.
J. Hymenoptera Research 14:151-176.
Silva-Brandão, KL, AVL Freitas,
AVZ Brower and VN Solferini. 2005.
Phylogenetic relationships of the New World Troidini
swallowtails (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) based on COI,
COII, and EF1? genes.
Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 36: 468-483.
Wahlberg, N., MF Braby,
AVZ Brower, R de Jong, M-M Lee, S Nylin,
NE Pierce, FAH Sperling, R Vila, AD Warren and E
Zakharov. 2005. Synergistic effects of combining
morphological and molecular data in resolving the
phylogeny of butterflies and skippers.
Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 272: 1577-1586.
Wahlberg, N,
AVZ Brower and S Nylin. 2005.
Phylogenetic relationships of tribes and genera in the
subfamily Nymphalinae ((Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) based
on three gene sequences.
Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 86: 227-251.
Whinnett A,
AVZ Brower, M-M Lee, KR Willmott, and J
Mallet 2005. The phylogenetic utility of Tektin, a novel
region for inferring systematic relationships amongst
Lepidoptera.
Ann. Entomol. Soc. Amer. 98: 873-886.
Whinnett A, KR Willmott,
AVZ Brower, F Simpson, M Zimmermann, G
Lamas, and J Mallet. 2005. Mitochondrial DNA provides an
insight into the mechanisms driving diversification in
the ithomiine butterfly
Hyposcada anchiala (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae,
Ithomiinae).
European J. Entomol. 102: 633-639.
Brower, AVZ. 2006. The how and why of
branch support and partitioned branch support, with a new
index to assess partition incongruence.
Cladistics 22: 378-386.
Brower, AVZ. 2006. Problems with DNA
barcodes for species delimitation: "ten
species"; of
Astraptes fulgerator reassessed (Lepidoptera:
Hesperiidae).
Syst. and Biodiv. 4: 127-132.
Brower, AVZ, AVL Freitas, M-M Lee, KL
Silva Brandão, A Whinnett and KR Willmott 2006.
Phylogenetic relationships among the Ithomiini
(Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) inferred from one
mitochondrial and two nuclear gene regions.
Syst. Entomol. 31: 288-301.
Peña, C, N Wahlberg, E Weingartner. U
Kodandaramaiah, S Nylin, AVL Freitas and
AVZ Brower. 2006. Higher level phylogeny
of Satyrinae butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) based
on DNA sequence data.
Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 40: 29-49.
Simonsen, TJ, N Wahlberg,
AVZ Brower and R de Jong 2006.
Molecules, morphology and fritillaries: a combined
approach towards the phylogeny of Argynnini (Lepidoptera:
Nymphalidae). Insect Systematics and Evolution 37:
405-418.
Elias, M, RI Hill, KR Willmott, KK Dasmahaptra,
AVZ Brower, J Mallet and CD Jiggins.
2007. Limited performance of DNA barcoding in a diverse
community of tropical butterflies.
Proc. R. Soc London B 274: 2881-2889 (on
line: doi:10.1098/rspb2007.1035)
Beltrán, M, CD Jiggins,
AVZ Brower, E Bermingham and J Mallet.
2007. Do pollen feeding, pupal-mating and larval
gregariousness have a single origin in
Heliconius butterflies? Inferences from
multilocus DNA sequence data.
Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 92:221-239.
Frentiu, FD, GD Bernard, MP Sison-Mangus,
AVZ Brower and AD Briscoe. 2007. The
role of gene duplication in the evolution of spectral
shifts in the long wavelength photopigments of
butterflies.
Mol. Biol. Evol. 24: 2016-2028.
Warren, AD, J Ogawa and AVZ Brower. 2008. Phylogenetic
relationships of subfamilies and circumscription of
tribes in the family Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera:
Hesperioidea).
Cladistics 24: 642-676.
Townzen, JS, AVZ Brower and DD Judd. 2008.
Identification of mosquito bloodmeals using mitochondrial
cytochrome oxidase subunit I and cytochrome b
gene sequences.
Med. Vet. Entomol. 22: 386-393
Elias, M, M Joran, KR Willmott, V Kaiser, KL
Silva-Brandão, C Arias, LM Gomez-Piñeres, S
Uribe, AVZ Brower, AVL Freitas and CD Jiggins. 2009. Out
of the Andes: patterns of diversification in
clearwing butterflies.
Mol. Ecol. 18: 1716-1729.
Warren, AD, J Ogawa and AVZ Brower. 2009. Revised
classification of the family Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera:
Hesperioidea) based on combined molecular and
morphological data.
Systematic Entomology 34: 467-523.
Brower, AVZ. 2009.
Heliconius tristero Brower, 1996 and
Heliconius melpomene mocoa Brower, 1996
(Lepidoptera:
NYMPHALIDAE
): proposed conservation by
suppression of
Heliconius melpomene bellula Brown, 1979.
Bulletin of Zoological Nominclature 66:
256-260.
Wahlberg, N, J Leneveu, U Kodandaramaiah, C Peña, S
Nylin, ALV Freitas and AVZ Brower. 2009. Nymphalid
butterflies diversify following near demise at the
Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary.
Proc. R. Soc. London B 276:
4295-4302.
Brower, AVZ. 2010. Stability, replication,
pseudoreplication and support.
Cladistics 25: 112-113.
Brower, AVZ, N Wahlberg, JR Ogawa, M Bopp
ré and RI Vane-Wright. 2010. Phylogenetic
relationships among genera of danaine butterflies
(Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) as implied by morphology and
DNA sequences.
Systematics and Biodiversity 8: 75-89.
Brower, AVZ. 2010. Alleviating the taxonomic impediment
of DNA barcoding: names for ten species of
"Astraptes fulgerator" (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae:
Eudaminae).
Systematics and Biodiversity 8: 485-491.
Brower, AVZ. 2011. Hybrid speciation in Heliconius
butterflies: a review and critique of the evidence.
Genetica 139: 589-609; online version DOI:
10.1007/s10709-010-9530-4
Rindal, E and AVZ Brower. 2011. Do model-based
phylogenetic analyses outperform parsimony? A test with
empirical data.
Cladistics 27: 331-334; online version
DOI:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2010.00342.x
Brower, AVZ. 2011. Repeatability and reality.
Cladistics online version DOI:
10.111/j.1096-0031.2011.00354.x
Book
Schuh, RT and AVZ Brower. 2009.
Biological Systematics:
principles and applications. 2nd edn. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press. 311 pp.
PAST PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Rice Chair of Systematic Entomology, Oregon State
University
Assistant Professor (Nov. 1997- June 2006)
Curator of Lepidoptera, Oregon State Arthropod
Collection, Oregon State University
(Nov. 1997-June 2006 )
Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellow, National Museum of
Natural History (Mar.-Nov. 1997)
Kalbfleisch Fellow, American Museum of Natural History
(May 1996-Feb. 1997 )
Postdoctoral Fellow, American Museum of Natural History
(Oct. 1995-April 1996)
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, American Museum of Natural
History (Oct. 1993-Sept. 1995)
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