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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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[edit]

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