Brady, Sean G.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Seán Brady, Curator of Hymenoptera (Ants & Bees)

Phone: 301-238-1078 Fax: 202-786-2894 E-mail Address: bradys@si.edu Mailing Address: Smithsonian Institution Laboratories of Analytical Biology Museum Support Center 4210 Silver Hill Road Suitland, MD 20746 Shipping Address: (same as above) Education: Ph.D. University of California, Davis Research Interests:

Phylogenetics, molecular evolution, and systematics of ants and bees Social insect evolution and ecology Coevolutionary dynamics, especially in fungus-growing ants Phylogenetic and molecular evolutionary theory and methodology My research concentrates on increasing our understanding of the origins, diversification, and molecular evolution of social insects, especially ants and bees. I am particularly interested in applying comparative approaches that incorporate evidence from systematics, ecology, genetics, and genomics in order to address specific questions in ant and bee evolution.

PUBLICATIONS

 * Blaimer, B. B.; Brady, S. G.; Schultz, T. R.; Lloyd, M. W.; Fisher, B. L.; Ward, P. S. 2015. Phylogenomic methods outperform traditional multi-locus approaches in resolving deep evolutionary history: a case study of formicine ants. BMC Evolutionary Biology 15:257.


 * [[Media:Brady 2003.pdf|Brady, S.G. 2003. Evolution of the army ant syndrome: the origin and long-term evolutionary stasis of a complex of behavioral and reproductive adaptations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 100: 6575-6579. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Brady et al 2014.pdf|Brady, S. G.; Fisher, B. L.; Schultz, T. R.; Ward, P. S. 2014. The rise of army ants and their relatives: diversification of specialized predatory doryline ants. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:93, 14 pp. (doi:10.1186/1471-2148-14-93). '''PDF]]


 * [[Media:Brady & Ward 1999.pdf|Brady, S. G., J. Gadau and P. S. Ward. 1999. Is the ant genus Camponotus paraphyletic? Pages 27-28 in Austin, A. D. and P. J. DeBarro. Fourth International Hymenopterists Conference: program and abstracts. International Society of Hymenopterists, Glen Osmond, SA. 96 pp PDF']]


 * [[Media:Brady et al 2006.pdf|Brady, S.G., Schultz, T.R., Fisher, B.L. & Ward, P.S. 2006. Evaluating alternative hypotheses for the early evolution and diversification of ants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 103: 18172-18177. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Brady & Ward 2005.pdf|Brady, S.G. & Ward, P.S. 2005. Morphological phylogeny of army ants and other dorylomorphs. Systematic Entomology 30: 592-618. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Gadau et al 1999.pdf|Gadau, J.; Brady, S. G.; Ward, P. S. 1999.  Systematics, distribution, and ecology of an endemic California Camponotus quercicola (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 92(4): 514-522 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Gotzek et al 2012.pdf| Gotzek, D.; Brady, S.G.; Kallal, R. J.; LaPolla, J. S. 2012. The importance of using multiple approaches for identifying emerging invasive species: the case of the rasberry crazy ant in the United States. PLoS ONE 7(9):e45314 (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0045314). PDF]]


 * [[Media:LaPolla et al 2010.pdf|LaPolla, J.S., Brady, S.G. & Shattuck, S.O. 2010a. Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Prenolepis genus-group of ants. Systematic Entomology 35: 118-131. PDF]]


 * [[Media:LaPolla J and Brady and Shattuck 2010.pdf|LaPolla, J.S., Brady, S.G. & Shattuck, S.O. 2010b. Designation of a neotype for Paratrechina currens Motschoulsky, 1863. Notulae Naturae 481: 1-2. PDF]]


 * [[Media:LaPolla Brady Shattuck 2011.pdf|LaPolla, J.S., Brady, S.G. & Shattuck, S.O. 2011. Monograph of Nylanderia of the world: an introduction to the systematics and biology of the genus. Zootaxa 3110: 1-9 PDF]]


 * [[Media:LaPolla Kallal Brady 2012.pdf|LaPolla, J.S., Kallal, R.J. & Brady, S.G. 2012. A new ant genus from the Greater Antilles and Central America, Zatania exemplifies the utility of male and molecular character systems. Systematic Entomology 37: 200-214. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Sosa Calvo Brady Schultz 2009.pdf|Sosa-Calvo, J., S. G. Brady and T. R. Schultz. 2009. The gyne of the enigmatic fungus-farming ant species Mycetosoritis explicata. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 18(1): 113-120. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Ward & Brady 2003.pdf|Ward, P., and Brady, S. 2003. Phylogeny and biogeography of the ant subfamily Myrmeciinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Invertebrate Systematics 17(3): 361-386 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Ward & Brady 2009.pdf|Ward, P.S. & Brady, S.G. 2009. Rediscovery of the ant genus Amyrmex Kusnezov and its transfer from Dolichoderinae to Leptanilloidinae. Zootaxa 2063: 46-54. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Ward Brady Fisher Schultz 2010.pdf|Ward, P.S., Brady, S.G., Fisher, B.L. & Schultz, T.R. 2010. Phylogeny and biogeography of Dolichoderinae ants: effects of data partitioning and relict taxa on historical inference. Systematic Biology 59: 342-362. PDF]]


 * Ward, P. S., S. G. Brady, B. L. Fisher, and T. R. Schultz. 2015. The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology. 40:61-81. doi:10.1111/syen.12090