Amy Reed McCune
Born1954
Alma materBrown University Yale University
Scientific career
FieldsEcology and Evolutionary Biology

Amy Reed McCune is an American ecologist and evolutionary biologist. She is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell University.[1] McCune specializes in the history of life through the study of fishes. Her lab focuses on evolution with methodologies including paleobiology, phylogenetics, genetics and morphology.[2]

McCune was appointed Senior Associate Dean of the Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in 2017.[3] McCune is also a Faculty Curator of Ichthyology at the Cornell Museum of Vertebrates.[1]

Education

McCune received a Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) in biology from Brown University in 1976.[1] McCune received a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in biology from Yale University in 1982.[1] McCune was a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley (1982–1983).[1][4]

Career

McCune became an assistant professor at Cornell University in 1983.[2] McCune served as the chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from 2011 to 2017.[1] McCune is also a faculty curator of fishes at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates.[5]

Selected publications

  • Lencer, E. S., M. Riccio and A. R. McCune. 2016. Changes in growth rates of oral jaw elements produce evolutionary novelty in Bahamian pupfish. Journal of Morphology 277: 935–47.
  • Longo, S. J., M. Riccio, and A. R. McCune. 2013. Homology of lungs and gas bladders: insights from arterial vasculature. Journal of Morphology 274: 687–703.
  • Cass, A. N., M. D. Servetnick, and A. R. McCune. 2013. Expression of a lung developmental cassette in the adult and developing zebrafish swimbladder. Evolution and Development 15(2): 119–132.
  • Wagner, C. E., A. R. McCune, and I. J. Lovette. 2012. Recent speciation in sympatric Tanganyikan cichlid colour-morphs. Molecular Ecology 21: 3283–3292.
  • McCune, A. R. and J. C. Schimenti. 2012. Using Genetic Networks and Homology to Understand the Evolution of Phenotypic Traits. Current Genomics 13(1): 74–84.
  • Rabosky, D. and A. R. McCune. 2010. Reinventing species selection with molecular phylogenies.  Trends in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 25(2): 68–74.
  • Wagner, C. E. and A. R. McCune. 2009. Contrasting patterns of spatial genetic structure in sympatric rock-dwelling cichlid fishes.  Evolution 63(5): 1312–1326.
  • McCune, A. R. 2004. Diversity and speciation of semionotid fishes in Mesozoic rift lakes.  In: Adaptive Speciation, U. Dieckman, M. Doebli, and J. A. J. Metz (eds.).  Cambridge University Press pp. 362–379.
  • McCune, A. R. and R. L. Carlson. 2004. Twenty ways to lose your bladder: Common natural mutants in zebrafish and widespread convergence of swim bladder loss among teleost fishes.  Evolution and Development 6(4): 246–259.
  • McClure, M. and A. R. McCune. 2003. Evidence for developmental linkage of pigment patterns with body size and shape in Danios (Teleostei:  Cyprinidae).  Evolution 57(8): 1863–1875.
  • McCune, A. R., R. C. Fuller, A. A. Aquilina, R. M. Dawley, J. M. Fadool, D. Houle, J. Travis, and A. S. Kondrashov. 2002. A low genomic number of recessive lethals in natural populations of bluefin killifish and zebrafish.  Science 296: 2398–2401.
  • McCune, A. R. and N. R. Lovejoy. 1998. The relative rate of sympatric and allopatric speciation in fishes: Tests using DNA sequence divergence between sister species and among clades.  In: Endless Forms: Species and Speciation, D. Howard and S. Berloccher (eds.).  Oxford University Press pp. 172–185.
  • McCune, A. R. 1996. Biogeographic and stratigraphic evidence for rapid speciation in semionotid fishes.  Paleobiology 22(1): 34–48.
  • Normark, B. B., A. R. McCune, and R. G. Harrison. 1991. Phylogenetic relationships of neopterygian fishes inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences.  Molecular Biology and Evolution 8: 819–834.
  • McCune, A. R. 1990. Morphological anomalies in the Semionotus complex: Relaxed selection during colonization of an expanding lake.  Evolution 44(1): 71–85.[1]

Awards and honors

  • NSF grant for the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates (2006–2008).[6]
  • NSF grant for the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates (2002–2004).[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Amy McCune". Cornell Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Archived from the original on 2016-11-06. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Senior Associate Deans | CALS". cals.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
  3. ↑ Hayes, Matt (April 26, 2017). "Amy McCune Appointed Senior Associate Dean at Cornell CALS". Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) News. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
  4. ↑ Sun, The Cornell Daily (2010-09-08). "The Scientist: Amy McCune". The Cornell Daily Sun. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
  5. ↑ "PEOPLE". Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
  6. ↑ "NSF Award Search: Award#0641422 - Completing the Rehousing of the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates Bird and Mammal Collections". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
  7. ↑ "NSF Award Search: Award#0138123 - A New Facility for the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates: Moving, Compactors, and Cases". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
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