Amy McCune explained

Amy Reed McCune
Fields:	Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Alma Mater:	Brown UniversityYale University
Birth Date:	1954

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.

McCune was appointed Senior Associate Dean of the Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in 2017.^[2] McCune is also a Faculty Curator of Ichthyology at the Cornell Museum of Vertebrates.

Education

McCune received a Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) in biology from Brown University in 1976. McCune received a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in biology from Yale University in 1982. McCune was a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley (1982–1983).^[3]

Career

McCune became an assistant professor at Cornell University in 1983.^[4] McCune served as the chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from 2011 to 2017. 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. 10.1002/jmor.20547 . 27103074 . 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. 10.1002/jmor.20128 . 23378277 . 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. 10.1111/ede.12022 . 25098637 . 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. 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05607.x . 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. 10.2174/138920212799034785 . 22942677 . 3269019 .
• Rabosky . D. . McCune . A. R. . 2010 . Reinventing species selection with molecular phylogenies . Trends in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology . 25 . 2 . 68–74. 10.1016/j.tree.2009.07.002 . 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. 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00612.x . 19154384 .
• Book: McCune . A. R. . 2004 . Diversity and speciation of semionotid fishes in Mesozoic rift lakes . Adaptive Speciation . U. Dieckman . M. Doebli . J. A. J. Metz . Cambridge University Press . 362–379 . 10.1017/CBO9781139342179.021. 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. 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2004.04030.x . 15230965 . 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. 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb00594.x . 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. 10.1126/science.1071757 . 12089444 . 2002Sci...296.2398M . 41962098 .
• Book: 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 . Endless Forms: Species and Speciation . D. J. Howard . S. H. Berlocher . Oxford University Press . 172–185 . 9780195109016.
• McCune . A. R. . 1996 . Biogeographic and stratigraphic evidence for rapid speciation in semionotid fishes . Paleobiology . 22 . 1 . 34–48. 10.1017/S0094837300016006 . 1996Pbio...22...34M . 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. 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a040685 . 1663569 .
• McCune . A. R. . 1990 . Morphological anomalies in the Semionotus complex: Relaxed selection during colonization of an expanding lake . Evolution . 44 . 1 . 71–85. 10.2307/2409525 . 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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Amy McCune. Cornell Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20161106145049/http://ecologyandevolution.cornell.edu:80/amy-r-mccune . 2016-11-06 . September 7, 2019.
2. News: Amy McCune Appointed Senior Associate Dean at Cornell CALS. Hayes. Matt. April 26, 2017. Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) News. September 7, 2019.
3. Web site: The Scientist: Amy McCune. Sun. The Cornell Daily. 2010-09-08. The Cornell Daily Sun. en-US. 2019-10-06.
4. Web site: Senior Associate Deans CALS. cals.cornell.edu. 2019-09-07.
5. Web site: PEOPLE. Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates. en. 2019-10-06.
6. Web site: NSF Award Search: Award#0641422 - Completing the Rehousing of the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates Bird and Mammal Collections. www.nsf.gov. 2019-09-07.
7. Web site: NSF Award Search: Award#0138123 - A New Facility for the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates: Moving, Compactors, and Cases. www.nsf.gov. 2019-09-07.