Amy R. McCune

Publications

2004 McCune, A. R. and R. L. Carlson. Twenty ways to lose your bladder: common natural mutants in zebrafish and widespread convergence of swim bladder loss among teleost fishes. Evolution & Development 6(4):246-259.
  McCune, A. R., D. Houle, K. McMillan, R. Annable, and A. S. Kondrashov. Two classes of deleterious recessive alleles in a natural population of zebrafish, Danio rerio. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B (2004) 271:2025-2033.
  McCune, A. R. Diversity and speciation of semionotid fishes in mesozoic rift lakes. In: Adaptive Speciation, eds. Dieckmann U, Doebeli M, Metz JAJ & Tautz D, pp. 362-379. Cambridge University press.
2003 McClure, M. and A. R. McCune. Evidence for developmental linkage of pigment patterns with body size and shape in Danios (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Evolution 57(8):1863-1875.
2002 McCune, A. R., R. C. Fuller, A. A. Aquilina, R. M. Dawley, J. M. Fadool, D. Houle, J. Travis, and A. S. Kondrashov. A low genomic number of recessive lethals in natural populations of bluefin killifish and zebrafish. Science 296:2398-2401.
  Sanger, T. J. and A. R. McCune. Comparative osteology of the Danio (Cyprinidae: Ostariophysi) axial skeleton with comments on Danio relationships based on molecules and morphology. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 135:529-546.
2001 McCune, A.R. Games cichlids play (review of The Cichlid Fishes: Nature's Grand Experiment in Evolution by George Barlow). Science 291:51.
  McCune, A. R. Rapid speciation in species flocks of fishes. In: D. E. G. Briggs and P. R. Crowther, editors. Paleobiology II:145-148. Blackwell Scientific.
2000 Eastman, J. T. and A. R. McCune. Fishes on the Antarctic continental shelf: Evolution of marine species flocks? Journal of Fish Biology 57:84-102.
1999 Marcus, J. M. and A. R. McCune. Ontogeny and phylogeny in the Northern Swordtail Clade of Xiphophorus. Systematic Biology 48 (3):491-522.
1998 McCune, A. R. Review of Darwin's Dreampond by Tijs Goldschmidt. Quarterly Review of Biology 73:93.
  McCune, A. R. and N. R. Lovejoy. The relative rate of sympatric and allopatric speciation in fishes: tests using DNA sequence divergence between sister species and among clades. Pages 172-185 In D. Howard and S. Berloccher, editors. Endless Forms: Species and Speciation. Oxford University Press.
1997 McCune, A. R. Review of the Connecticut Valley in the Age of Dinosaurs: A guide to the geologic literature 1681-1995 by Nicholas G. McDonald. American Paleontologist 5(2):13-14.
  McCune, A. R. How fast is speciation: molecular, geological and phylogenetic evidence from adaptive radiations of fishes. Pages 585-610in: T. Givnish and K. Sytsma, editors, Molecular Evolution and Adaptive Radiation. Cambridge University Press.
1996 McCune, A. R. Biogeographic and stratigraphic evidence for rapid speciation in semionotid fishes. Paleobiology 22(1): 34-48.
1994 McCune, A. R. and R. Jenkins. Fossil fishes. Pages 107-109 in R. E. Jenkins and N. M. Burkhead. Freshwater Fishes of Virginia. University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville.
1992 McCune, A. R. Review of "Evolution and the Fossil Record," edited by K. Allen and D. Briggs. Quarterly Review of Biology 67(1):43.
1991 Boughton, D. B., B. B. Collette, and A. R. McCune. Heterochrony in jaw morphology of needlefishes. Systematic Zoology 40(3):329-354.
  Normark, B. B., A. R. McCune, and R. G. Harrison. Phylogenetic relationships of neopterygian fishes inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Biology and Evolution 8:819-834.
  Olsen, P. E. and A. R. McCune. Morphology of the Semionotus elegans group from the Early Jurassic part of the Newark Supergroup of eastern North America, with comments on the family Semionotidae (Pisces: Neopterygii). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 11(3):269-292.
1990 McCune, A. R. Morphological anomalies in the Semionotus complex: relaxed selection during colonization of an expanding lake. Evolution 44(1):71-85.
1989 McCune, A. R. Semionotid species flocks in the Newark Basin. Pages 94-96 in P. E. Olsen and P. J. W. Gore, editors. Tectonic, Depositional and Paleoecological History of Early Mesozoic Rift Basins, Eastern North America. Field Trip Guidebook T351 of the 28th International Geological Congress. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC. 174 pp.
1988 McCune, A. R. Review of "Animal Evolution in Changing Environments," by R. Matsuda. Science 239:300-301.
1987 McCune, A. R. Toward the phylogeny of a fossil species flock: semionotid fishes from a lake deposit in the Early Jurassic Towaco Formation, Newark Basin. Bulletin of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History 43:1-108.
  McCune, A. R. Lakes as laboratories of evolution: endemic fishes and environmental cyclicity. Palaios 2:446-454.
  McCune, A. R. Cornell Ichthyology and Herpetology Collections. Copeia 1987(3):837.
  McCune, A. R. Review of "Early Life Histories of Fishes," by E. Balon. American Scientist 75(3):311.
1986 McCune, A. R. A revision of Semionotus, with redescriptions of valid European species. Palaeontology 29(2):213-233.
  McCune, A. R. and B. Schaeffer. Triassic and Jurassic fishes: patterns of diversity. Pages 171-181 in K. Padian, editor. The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs: Faunal Change Across the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England.
  McCune, A. R. Review of "Living Fossils," edited by N. Eldredge and S. M. Stanley. American Scientist 74(1):89-90.
1985 McCune, A. R. Semionotus Agassiz, 1832 (Osteichthyes): proposed designation of Semionotus bergeri Agassiz, 1833 as type species. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 42(4):371-373.
1984 McCune, A. R., K. S. Thomson, and P. E. Olsen. Semionotid fishes from the Mesozoic great lakes of North America. Pages 27-44 in A. A. Echelle and I. Kornfield, editors. Evolution of Fish Species Flocks. University of Maine Press, Orono.
  Thomson, K. S. and A. R. McCune. Scale structure as evidence of growth patterns in fossil semionotid fishes. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 4(3):422-429.
  Thomson, K. S. and A. R. McCune. Development of the scales in Lepisosteus as a model for scale formation in fossil fishes. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 82:73-86.
  McCune, A. R. and R. Schocknecht. Cornell Ichthyology Collection. Copeia 1984(4):1044-1045.
1982 McCune, A. R. On the fallacy of constant extinction rates. Evolution 36(3):610-614.
  Olsen, P. E., A. R. McCune, and K. S. Thomson. Correlation of the Early Mesozoic Newark Supergroup by vertebrates, principally fishes. American Journal of Science 282:1-44.
1981  McCune, A. R. Quantitative description of body form in fishes: implications for species level taxonomy and ecological inference. Copeia 1981(4):897-901.

STUDENT RESEARCH DONE WITH GUIDANCE FROM A.R. McCUNE

2001 Lovejoy, N. R. and B. B. Collette. Phylogenetic relationships of New World needlefishes (Teleostei:Belonidae) and the biogeography of transitions between marine and freshwater habitats. Copeia 2001(2):324-338.
2000 Lovejoy, N. R. Reinterpreting recapitulation: Systematics of needlefishes and their allies (Teleostei:Beloniformes). Evolution 54:1349-1362.
Lovejoy, N. R. and M. L. G. de Araújo. Molecular systematics, biogeography, and population structure of neotropical freshwater needlefishes of the genus Potamorrhaphis. Molecular Ecology 9:259-268.
1999 McClure, M. M. Development and evolution of melanophore patterns in fishes of the genus Danio. Journal of Morphology 241(1):83-105. 1999.
1998 Lovejoy, N., A. P. Martin, and R. E. Bermingham. Marine incursions into South America. Nature 396:421-422.
1995 McClure, M. and A. Bohonak. Nonselectivity in patterns of extinction of bivalves at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 8:779-794.
  Wimberger, P.H. Trophic plasticity, polymorphisms, and speciation in vertebrates. Pages 19-43 in D. J. Stouder, K. Fresh, and R.J. Feller, eds., Theory and Application in Fish Feeding Ecology. University of South Carolina Press.
1993 Wimberger, P.H. Effects of vitamin C deficiency on body shape and skull osteology in Geophagus brasiliensis: Implications for interpretations of morphological plasticity. Copeia 2:343-351.
  de Queiroz, A. and P. H. Wimberger. The usefulness of behavior for phylogeny estimation: Levels of homoplasy in behavior and morphological characters. Evolution 47:46-60.
1992 Wimberger, P.H. Plasticity of fish body shape. The effects of diet, development, family and age in two species of Geophagus (Pisces:Cichlidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 45:197-218.
1991 Wimberger, P.H. Plasticity of jaw and skull morphology in the neotropical cichlids, Geophagus brasiliensis and G. steindachneri. Evolution 45(7):1545-1563.


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