Biography

Dr. Peter Berendzen has received his PhD in University of Minnesota during the period of 2005 currently, he is working as Associate Professor in University of Northern Iowa 

Research Intrest

Dr. Peter Berendzen research interests focus on the evolutionary relationships, speciation, and biogeography of fish. Fish are fascinating because of their great morphological, physiological and behavioral variation and high diversity, with over 25,000 described species. The goals of his research address two main questions on the evolution of fish: 1) what are the historical processes that have shaped geographical distributions of fish? And 2) what are the patterns of variation of specific character traits within evolutionary lineages of fish? His research involves both active field collection of fish and laboratory work on the collection of molecular and morphological data. His primary research focus is on North American freshwater fish although He also have interests in flatfish and East African freshwater fish. 

List of Publications
Berendzen PB, Olson WM, Barron SM. The utility of molecular hypotheses for uncovering morphological diversity in the notropis rubellus species group (cypriniformes: cyprinidae). Copeia (2009) pp: 661-673.
Berendzen PB, Dugan JF, Gamble T. Post-glacial expansion into the paleozoic plateau: evidence of an ozarkian refugium for the ozark minnow notropis nubilus (teleostei: cypriniformes). Journal of Fish Biology (2010). 77: 1114-1136.
Wieman AC, Berendzen PB, Hampton KR, Jang J, Hopkins MJ, urgenson J, McNamara JC, Thurman CL. A panmictic fiddler crab from the coast of Brazil? Impact of divergent ocean currents and larval dispersal potential on genetic and morphological variation in Uca maracoani. Marine Biology (2014). 161: 173-185.
Davis DJ, Wieman AC, Berendzen PB. The influence of historical and contemporary landscape variables on the spatial genetic structure of the rainbow darter (Etheostoma caeruleum) in tributaries of the upper Mississippi River. Conservation Genetics (2014). 16: 167-179.

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