Amy McCune

Amy Reed McCune
Born	1954
Alma mater	Brown University Yale University
Scientific career
Fields	Ecology 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.; Riccio, M.; McCune, A. R. (2016). "Changes in growth rates of oral jaw elements produce evolutionary novelty in Bahamian pupfish". Journal of Morphology. 277 (7): 935–47. doi:10.1002/jmor.20547. PMID   27103074. S2CID   46769821.
• Longo, S. J. M.; Riccio, M.; McCune, A. R. (2013). "Homology of lungs and gas bladders: insights from arterial vasculature". Journal of Morphology. 274 (6): 687–703. doi:10.1002/jmor.20128. PMID   23378277. S2CID   29995935.
• Cass, A. N.; Servetnick, M. D.; McCune, A. R. (2013). "Expression of a lung developmental cassette in the adult and developing zebrafish swimbladder". Evolution and Development. 15 (2): 119–132. doi:10.1111/ede.12022. PMID   25098637. S2CID   20544066.
• Wagner, C. E.; McCune, A. R.; Lovette, I. J. (2012). "Recent speciation in sympatric Tanganyikan cichlid colour-morphs". Molecular Ecology. 21 (13): 3283–3292. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05607.x. PMID   22612462.
• McCune, A. R.; Schimenti, J. C. (2012). "Using Genetic Networks and Homology to Understand the Evolution of Phenotypic Traits". Current Genomics. 13 (1): 74–84. doi:10.2174/138920212799034785. PMC   3269019 . PMID   22942677.
• Rabosky, D.; McCune, A. R. (2010). "Reinventing species selection with molecular phylogenies". Trends in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. 25 (2): 68–74. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2009.07.002. PMID   19740566.
• Wagner, C. E.; McCune, A. R. (2009). "Contrasting patterns of spatial genetic structure in sympatric rock-dwelling cichlid fishes". Evolution. 63 (5): 1312–1326. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00612.x. PMID   19154384.
• McCune, A. R. (2004). "Diversity and speciation of semionotid fishes in Mesozoic rift lakes". In U. Dieckman; M. Doebli; J. A. J. Metz (eds.). Adaptive Speciation. Cambridge University Press. pp. 362–379. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139342179.021. ISBN   978-0-521-82842-0.
• McCune, A. R.; Carlson, R. L. (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. doi:10.1111/j.1525-142X.2004.04030.x. PMID   15230965. S2CID   39502888.
• McClure, M.; McCune, A. R. (2003). "Evidence for developmental linkage of pigment patterns with body size and shape in Danios (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)". Evolution. 57 (8): 1863–1875. doi:10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb00594.x. PMID   14503628.
• McCune, A. R.; Fuller, R. C.; Aquilina, A. A.; Dawley, R. M.; Fadool, J. M.; Houle, D.; Travis, J.; Kondrashov, A. S. (2002). "A low genomic number of recessive lethals in natural populations of bluefin killifish and zebrafish". Science. 296 (5577): 2398–2401. Bibcode:2002Sci...296.2398M. doi:10.1126/science.1071757. PMID   12089444. S2CID   41962098.
• McCune, A. R.; Lovejoy, N. R. (1998). "The relative rate of sympatric and allopatric speciation in fishes: Tests using DNA sequence divergence between sister species and among clades". In D. J. Howard; S. H. Berlocher (eds.). Endless Forms: Species and Speciation. Oxford University Press. pp. 172–185. ISBN   9780195109016.
• McCune, A. R. (1996). "Biogeographic and stratigraphic evidence for rapid speciation in semionotid fishes". Paleobiology. 22 (1): 34–48. Bibcode:1996Pbio...22...34M. doi:10.1017/S0094837300016006. S2CID   88420145.
• Normark, B. B.; McCune, A. R.; Harrison, R. G. (1991). "Phylogenetic relationships of neopterygian fishes inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 8 (6): 819–834. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a040685. PMID   1663569.
• McCune, A. R. (1990). "Morphological anomalies in the Semionotus complex: Relaxed selection during colonization of an expanding lake". Evolution. 44 (1): 71–85. doi:10.2307/2409525. JSTOR   2409525.

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. "Amy McCune". Cornell Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Archived from the original on 2016-11-06. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
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.