McCracken, Kevin - University of Miami

个人简介

2014-present, Associate Professor and Kushlan Chair, Department of Biology & Division of Marine Biology Fisheries, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami 2001-2014, Assistant & Associate Professor, Institute of Arctic Biology, Department of Biology and Wildlife, & University of Alaska Museum, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska 1994-1999, Ph.D. Wildlife & Fisheries, Louisiana State University 1990-1994, B.S. Biology, University of Notre Dame

研究领域

My research interests are in integrative evolutionary biology and the genetics of adaptation. Field studies and analytical methods from a variety of different disciplines including genetics, physiology, protein chemistry, and wildlife population biology are being used to address questions about the process of adaptation and natural selection, at both the molecular level and in whole organisms. Waterfowl and tropical waterbird species inhabiting high-altitude regions of the Andes are of particular interest.

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McCracken, K. G., C. P. Barger, M. Bulgarella, K. P. Johnson, S. A. Sonsthagen, J. Trucco, T. H. Valqui, R E. Wilson, K. Winker, and M. D. Sorenson (2009) Parallel evolution in the major hemoglobin genes of eight species of Andean waterfowl. Molecular Ecology 18:3992-4005 McCracken, K. G., M. Bulgarella, K. P. Johnson, M. K. Kuhner, J. Trucco, T. H. Valqui, R. E. Wilson, and J. L. Peters (2009) Gene flow in the face of countervailing selection: Adaptation to high-altitude hypoxia in the beta-A hemoglobin subunit of Yellow-billed Pintails. Molecular Biology and Evolution26:815-827 McCracken, K. G., C. P. Barger, M. Bulgarella, K. P. Johnson, M. K. Kuhner, A. V. Moore, J. L. Peters, J. Trucco, T. H. Valqui, K. Winker, and R. E. Wilson (2009) Signatures of high-altitude adaptation in the major hemoglobin of five species of Andean dabbling ducks. American Naturalist 174:631–650. McCracken, K. G., and M. D. Sorenson (2005) Is homoplasy or lineage sorting the source of incongruent mtDNA and nuclear gene trees in the stiff-tailed ducks (Nomonyx-Oxyura)? Systematic Biology 54:35-55 McCracken, K. G., J. Harshman, D. A. McClellan, and A. D. Afton (1999) Data set incongruence and correlated character evolution: An example of functional convergence in the hind-limbs of stifftail diving ducks. Systematic Biology 48:683–714 McCracken, K. G., and F. H. Sheldon (1997) Avian vocalizations and phylogenetic signal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA. 94:3833–3836