Kevin G McCracken - Publications

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University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 

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2024 Graham AM, Lavretsky P, Wilson RE, McCracken KG. High-altitude adaptation is accompanied by strong signatures of purifying selection in the mitochondrial genomes of three Andean waterfowl. Plos One. 19: e0294842. PMID 38170710 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0294842  0.707
2023 Spaulding F, McLaughlin JF, Cheek RG, McCracken KG, Glenn TC, Winker K. Population genomics indicate three different modes of divergence and speciation with gene flow in the green-winged teal duck complex. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 107733. PMID 36801373 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107733  0.35
2021 Graham AM, Peters JL, Wilson RE, Muñoz-Fuentes V, Green AJ, Dorfsman DA, Valqui TH, Winker K, McCracken KG. Adaptive introgression of the beta-globin cluster in two Andean waterfowl. Heredity. PMID 33903741 DOI: 10.1038/s41437-021-00437-6  0.684
2020 Dawson NJ, Alza L, Nandal G, Scott GR, McCracken KG. Convergent changes in muscle metabolism depend on duration of high-altitude ancestry across Andean waterfowl. Elife. 9. PMID 32729830 DOI: 10.7554/Elife.56259  0.32
2020 Lague SL, Ivy CM, York JM, Chua BA, Alza L, Cheek R, Dawson NJ, Frappell PB, Farrell AP, McCracken KG, Scott GR, Milsom WK. Cardiovascular responses to progressive hypoxia in ducks native to high altitude in the Andes. The Journal of Experimental Biology. PMID 32041807 DOI: 10.1242/Jeb.211250  0.314
2020 Song SJ, Sanders JG, Delsuc F, Metcalf J, Amato K, Taylor MW, Mazel F, Lutz HL, Winker K, Graves GR, Humphrey G, Gilbert JA, Hackett SJ, White KP, Skeen HR, ... ... McCracken KG, et al. Comparative Analyses of Vertebrate Gut Microbiomes Reveal Convergence between Birds and Bats. Mbio. 11. PMID 31911491 DOI: 10.1128/Mbio.02901-19  0.339
2019 Lavretsky P, McInerney NR, Mohl JE, Brown JI, James HF, McCracken KG, Fleischer RC. Assessing Changes in Genomic Divergence Following a Century of Human Mediated Secondary Contact among Wild and Captive-bred Ducks. Molecular Ecology. PMID 31872482 DOI: 10.1111/Mec.15343  0.472
2019 Alza L, Lavretsky P, Peters JL, Cerón G, Smith M, Kopuchian C, Astie A, McCracken KG. Old divergence and restricted gene flow between torrent duck () subspecies in the Central and Southern Andes. Ecology and Evolution. 9: 9961-9976. PMID 31534707 DOI: 10.1002/Ece3.5538  0.457
2019 Campagna L, McCracken KG, Lovette IJ. Gradual evolution towards flightlessness in steamer ducks. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. PMID 31106403 DOI: 10.1111/Evo.13758  0.396
2019 Lavretsky P, Janzen T, McCracken KG. Identifying hybrids & the genomics of hybridization : Mallards & American black ducks of Eastern North America Ecology and Evolution. 9: 3470-3490. PMID 30962906 DOI: 10.1002/Ece3.4981  0.408
2019 Lavretsky P, DaCosta JM, Sorenson MD, McCracken KG, Peters JL. ddRAD-seq data reveal significant genome-wide population structure and divergent genomic regions that distinguish the mallard and close relatives in North America. Molecular Ecology. PMID 30941840 DOI: 10.1111/Mec.15091  0.472
2019 Ivy CM, Lague SL, York JM, Chua BA, Alza L, Cheek R, Dawson NJ, Frappell PB, McCracken KG, Milsom WK, Scott GR. Control of breathing and respiratory gas exchange in ducks native to high altitude in the Andes. The Journal of Experimental Biology. PMID 30846536 DOI: 10.1242/Jeb.198622  0.403
2019 Graham AM, McCracken KG. Convergent evolution on the hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) pathway genes EGLN1 and EPAS1 in high-altitude ducks. Heredity. 122: 819-832. PMID 30631144 DOI: 10.1038/S41437-018-0173-Z  0.678
2019 Gutiérrez‐Pinto N, McCracken KG, Tubaro P, Kopuchian C, Astie A, Cadena CD. Molecular and morphological differentiation among Torrent Duck (Merganetta armata) populations in the Andes Zoologica Scripta. 48: 589-604. DOI: 10.1111/Zsc.12367  0.358
2018 Lozano-Jaramillo M, McCracken KG, Cadena CD. Neutral and functionally important genes shed light on phylogeography and the history of high-altitude colonization in a widespread New World duck. Ecology and Evolution. 8: 6515-6528. PMID 30038753 DOI: 10.1002/Ece3.4108  0.543
2017 Graham AM, Lavretsky P, Muñoz-Fuentes V, Green AJ, Wilson RE, McCracken KG. Migration-selection balance drives genetic differentiation in genes associated with high-altitude function in the speckled teal (Anas flavirostris) in the Andes. Genome Biology and Evolution. PMID 29211852 DOI: 10.1093/Gbe/Evx253  0.7
2017 York JM, Scadeng M, McCracken KG, Milsom WK. Respiratory mechanics and morphology of Tibetan and Andean high-altitude geese with divergent life histories. The Journal of Experimental Biology. PMID 29180602 DOI: 10.1242/Jeb.170738  0.358
2017 Lague SL, Chua B, Alza L, Scott GR, Frappell PB, Zhong Y, Farrell AP, McCracken KG, Wang Y, Milsom WK. Divergent respiratory and cardiovascular responses to hypoxia in bar-headed geese and Andean birds. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 220: 4186-4194. PMID 29141880 DOI: 10.1242/Jeb.168799  0.306
2017 Maina JN, McCracken KG, Chua B, York JM, Milsom WK. Morphological and morphometric specializations of the lung of the Andean goose, Chloephaga melanoptera: A lifelong high-altitude resident. Plos One. 12: e0174395. PMID 28339478 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0174395  0.31
2017 York JM, Chua BA, Ivy CM, Alza L, Cheek R, Scott GR, McCracken KG, Frappell PB, Dawson NJ, Laguë SL, Milsom WK. Respiratory mechanics of eleven avian species resident at high and low altitude. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 220: 1079-1089. PMID 28298466 DOI: 10.1242/Jeb.151191  0.366
2017 Nelson JT, Wilson RE, McCracken KG, Cumming GS, Joseph L, Guay P, Peters JL. Divergence and gene flow in the globally distributed blue‐winged ducks Journal of Avian Biology. 48: 640-649. DOI: 10.1111/Jav.00998  0.455
2016 Dawson NJ, Ivy CM, Alza L, Cheek R, York JM, Chua B, Milsom WK, McCracken KG, Scott GR. Mitochondrial physiology in the skeletal and cardiac muscles is altered in torrent ducks, Merganetta armata, from high altitudes in the Andes. The Journal of Experimental Biology. PMID 27618861 DOI: 10.1242/Jeb.142711  0.314
2016 Lavretsky P, Peters JL, Winker K, Bahn V, Kulikova I, Zhuravlev YN, Wilson RE, Barger C, Gurney K, McCracken KG. Becoming pure: identifying generational classes of admixed individuals within lesser and greater scaup populations. Molecular Ecology. 25: 661-74. PMID 26833858 DOI: 10.1111/Mec.13487  0.376
2016 Escalante GC, Sweet AD, McCracken KG, Gustafsson DR, Wilson RE, Johnson KP. Patterns of cryptic host specificity in duck lice based on molecular data. Medical and Veterinary Entomology. PMID 26753998 DOI: 10.1111/Mve.12157  0.391
2016 Kopuchian C, Campagna L, Di Giacomo AS, Wilson RE, Bulgarella M, Petracci P, Mazar Barnett J, Matus R, Blank O, McCracken KG. Demographic history inferred from genome-wide data reveals two lineages of sheldgeese endemic to a glacial refugium in the southern Atlantic Journal of Biogeography. 43: 1979-1989. DOI: 10.1111/Jbi.12767  0.479
2015 Natarajan C, Projecto-Garcia J, Moriyama H, Weber RE, Muñoz-Fuentes V, Green AJ, Kopuchian C, Tubaro PL, Alza L, Bulgarella M, Smith MM, Wilson RE, Fago A, McCracken KG, Storz JF. Convergent Evolution of Hemoglobin Function in High-Altitude Andean Waterfowl Involves Limited Parallelism at the Molecular Sequence Level. Plos Genetics. 11: e1005681. PMID 26637114 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pgen.1005681  0.417
2015 Toews DPL, Campagna L, Taylor SA, Balakrishnan CN, Baldassarre DT, Deane-Coe PE, Harvey MG, Hooper DM, Irwin DE, Judy CD, Mason NA, McCormack JE, McCracken KG, Oliveros CH, Safran RJ, et al. Genomic approaches to understanding population divergence and speciation in birds Auk. 133: 13-30. DOI: 10.1642/Auk-15-51.1  0.328
2014 Peters JL, Winker K, Millam KC, Lavretsky P, Kulikova I, Wilson RE, Zhuravlev YN, McCracken KG. Mito-nuclear discord in six congeneric lineages of Holarctic ducks (genus Anas). Molecular Ecology. 23: 2961-74. PMID 24854419 DOI: 10.1111/Mec.12799  0.529
2014 Lavretsky P, McCracken KG, Peters JL. Phylogenetics of a recent radiation in the mallards and allies (Aves: Anas): inferences from a genomic transect and the multispecies coalescent. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 70: 402-11. PMID 23994490 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2013.08.008  0.422
2014 Gutiérrez-Pinto N, McCracken KG, Alza L, Tubaro P, Kopuchian C, Astie A, Cadena CD. The validity of ecogeographical rules is context-dependent: Testing for Bergmann's and Allen's rules by latitude and elevation in a widespread Andean duck Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 111: 850-862. DOI: 10.1111/Bij.12249  0.337
2014 Bulgarella M, Kopuchian C, Giacomo ASD, Matus R, Blank O, Wilson RE, McCracken KG. Molecular phylogeny of the South American sheldgeese with implications for conservation of Falkland Islands (Malvinas) and continental populations of the Ruddy-headed Goose Chloephaga rubidiceps and Upland Goose C. picta Bird Conservation International. 24: 59-71. DOI: 10.1017/S0959270913000178  0.43
2014 Peters JL, Sonsthagen SA, Lavretsky P, Rezsutek M, Johnson WP, McCracken KG. Interspecific hybridization contributes to high genetic diversity and apparent effective population size in an endemic population of mottled ducks (Anas fulvigula maculosa) Conservation Genetics. 15: 509-520. DOI: 10.1007/S10592-013-0557-9  0.515
2013 McCracken KG, Wilson RE, Martin AR. Gene flow and hybridization between numerically imbalanced populations of two duck species on the subantarctic island of South Georgia. Plos One. 8: e82664. PMID 24367536 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0082664  0.508
2013 Topp CM, Pruett CL, McCracken KG, Winker K. How migratory thrushes conquered northern North America: a comparative phylogeography approach. Peerj. 1: e206. PMID 24255819 DOI: 10.7717/Peerj.206  0.493
2013 Winker K, McCracken KG, Gibson DD, Peters JL. Heteropatric speciation in a duck, Anas crecca. Molecular Ecology. 22: 5922-35. PMID 24102809 DOI: 10.1111/Mec.12525  0.493
2013 Munoz-Fuentes V, Cortazar-Chinarro M, Lozano-Jaramillo M, Mccracken KG. Stepwise colonization of the Andes by Ruddy Ducks and the evolution of novel β‐globin variants Molecular Ecology. 22: 1231-1249. PMID 23346994 DOI: 10.1111/Mec.12151  0.457
2013 Wilson RE, Peters JL, McCracken KG. Genetic and phenotypic divergence between low- and high-altitude populations of two recently diverged cinnamon teal subspecies. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 67: 170-84. PMID 23289570 DOI: 10.1111/J.1558-5646.2012.01740.X  0.523
2013 Pruett CL, Topp CM, Maley JM, McCracken KG, Rohwer S, Birks S, Sealy SG, Winker K. Evidence from the genetics of landbirds for a forested pleistocene glacial refugium in the haida gwaii area Condor. 115: 725-737. DOI: 10.1525/Cond.2013.120123  0.489
2013 Sonsthagen SA, Talbot SL, Wilson RE, Petersen MR, Williams JC, Byrd GV, McCracken KG. Genetic structure of the Common Eider in the western Aleutian islands prior to fox eradication Condor. 115: 28-39. DOI: 10.1525/Cond.2012.110054  0.46
2013 Mccracken KG, Wilson RE, Peters JL, Winker K, Martin AR. Late Pleistocene colonization of South Georgia by yellow-billed pintails pre-dates the Last Glacial Maximum Journal of Biogeography. 40: 2348-2360. DOI: 10.1111/Jbi.12162  0.444
2012 Peters JL, McCracken KG, Pruett CL, Rohwer S, Drovetski SV, Zhuravlev YN, Kulikova I, Gibson DD, Winker K. A parapatric propensity for breeding precludes the completion of speciation in common teal (Anas crecca, sensu lato). Molecular Ecology. 21: 4563-77. PMID 22849532 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-294X.2012.05711.X  0.474
2012 Peters JL, Roberts TE, Winker K, McCracken KG. Heterogeneity in genetic diversity among non-coding loci fails to fit neutral coalescent models of population history. Plos One. 7: e31972. PMID 22384117 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0031972  0.464
2012 Bulgarella M, Peters JL, Kopuchian C, Valqui T, Wilson RE, McCracken KG. Multilocus coalescent analysis of haemoglobin differentiation between low- and high-altitude populations of crested ducks (Lophonetta specularioides). Molecular Ecology. 21: 350-68. PMID 22151704 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-294X.2011.05400.X  0.507
2012 Wilson RE, Eaton MD, McCracken KG. Plumage and body size differentiation in Blue-winged teal and Cinnamon teal Avian Biology Research. 5: 107-116. DOI: 10.3184/175815512X13350025801205  0.368
2011 McCracken KG, Wilson RE. Gene flow and hybridization between numerically imbalanced populations of two duck species in the Falkland Islands. Plos One. 6: e23173. PMID 21887236 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0023173  0.48
2011 Wilson RE, Eaton MD, Sonsthagen SA, Peters JL, Johnson KP, Simarra B, McCracken KG. Speciation, subspecies divergence, and paraphyly in the Cinnamon Teal and Blue-winged Teal Condor. 113: 747-761. DOI: 10.1525/Cond.2011.110042  0.488
2011 Booms TL, Talbot SL, Sage GK, McCaffery BJ, McCracken KG, Schempf PF. Nest-Site Fidelity and Dispersal of Gyrfalcons Estimated by Noninvasive Genetic Sampling The Condor. 113: 768-778. DOI: 10.1525/Cond.2011.100178  0.333
2011 Sonsthagen SA, Talbot SL, Scribner KT, McCracken KG. Multilocus phylogeography and population structure of common eiders breeding in North America and Scandinavia Journal of Biogeography. 38: 1368-1380. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2699.2011.02492.X  0.519
2010 McCracken KG, Barger CP, Sorenson MD. Phylogenetic and structural analysis of the HbA (alphaA/betaA) and HbD (alphaD/betaA) hemoglobin genes in two high-altitude waterfowl from the Himalayas and the Andes: Bar-headed goose (Anser indicus) and Andean goose (Chloephaga melanoptera). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 56: 649-58. PMID 20434566 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2010.04.034  0.324
2010 Sonsthagen SA, Talbot SL, Lanctot RB, McCracken KG. Do common eiders nest in kin groups? Microgeographic genetic structure in a philopatric sea duck. Molecular Ecology. 19: 647-657. PMID 20074318 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-294X.2009.04495.X  0.394
2010 Bulgarella M, Sorenson MD, Peters JL, Wilson RE, McCracken KG. Phylogenetic relationships of Amazonetta, Speculanas, Lophonetta, and Tachyeres: Four morphologically divergent duck genera endemic to South America Journal of Avian Biology. 41: 186-199. DOI: 10.1111/J.1600-048X.2009.04819.X  0.442
2010 Guay PJ, Chesser RT, Mulder RA, Afton AD, Paton DC, McCracken KG. East-west genetic differentiation in Musk Ducks (Biziura lobata) of Australia suggests late Pleistocene divergence at the Nullarbor Plain Conservation Genetics. 11: 2105-2120. DOI: 10.1007/S10592-010-0097-5  0.464
2009 McCracken KG, Barger CP, Bulgarella M, Johnson KP, Kuhner MK, Moore AV, Peters JL, Trucco J, Valqui TH, Winker K, Wilson RE. Signatures of high-altitude adaptation in the major hemoglobin of five species of andean dabbling ducks. The American Naturalist. 174: 631-50. PMID 19788356 DOI: 10.1086/606020  0.525
2009 McCracken KG, Barger CP, Bulgarella M, Johnson KP, Sonsthagen SA, Trucco J, Valqui TH, Wilson RE, Winker K, Sorenson MD. Parallel evolution in the major haemoglobin genes of eight species of Andean waterfowl. Molecular Ecology. 18: 3992-4005. PMID 19754505 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-294X.2009.04352.X  0.347
2009 McCracken KG, Bulgarella M, Johnson KP, Kuhner MK, Trucco J, Valqui TH, Wilson RE, Peters JL. Gene flow in the face of countervailing selection: adaptation to high-altitude hypoxia in the betaA hemoglobin subunit of yellow-billed pintails in the Andes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 26: 815-27. PMID 19151158 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msp007  0.474
2009 Schmidt JI, Hundertmark KJ, Bowyer RT, McCracken KG. Population structure and genetic diversity of moose in Alaska. The Journal of Heredity. 100: 170-80. PMID 18836148 DOI: 10.1093/Jhered/Esn076  0.447
2009 Sonsthagen SA, Talbot SL, Lanctot RB, Scribner KT, McCracken KG. Hierarchical Spatial Genetic Structure of Common Eiders (Somateria mollissima) Breeding Along a Migratory Corridor The Auk. 126: 744-754. DOI: 10.1525/Auk.2009.08224  0.457
2009 Bulgarella M, Stewart NC, Fedorov VB, Moore AV, McCracken KG. Hemoglobin Transcript Abundance in a cDNA Library from Bone Marrow of Crested Ducks (Lophonetta specularioides) in the Peruvian High Andes The Auk. 126: 666-672. DOI: 10.1525/Auk.2009.08217  0.328
2009 Pearce JM, McCracken KG, Christensen TK, Zhuravlev YN. Migratory Patterns and Population Structure among Breeding and Wintering Red-breasted Mergansers (Mergus serrator) and Common Mergansers (M. merganser) The Auk. 126: 784-798. DOI: 10.1525/Auk.2009.08182  0.48
2007 Winker K, McCracken KG, Gibson DD, Pruett CL, Meier R, Huettmann F, Wege M, Kulikova IV, Zhuravlev YN, Perdue ML, Spackman E, Suarez DL, Swayne DE. Movements of birds and avian influenza from Asia into Alaska. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 13: 547-52. PMID 17553268 DOI: 10.3201/Eid1304.061072  0.312
2007 Brennan PL, Prum RO, McCracken KG, Sorenson MD, Wilson RE, Birkhead TR. Coevolution of male and female genital morphology in waterfowl. Plos One. 2: e418. PMID 17476339 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0000418  0.317
2007 Sonsthagen SA, Talbot SL, McCracken KG. Genetic Characterization Of Common Eiders Breeding In The Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska The Condor. 109: 878-893. DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2007)109[878:Gcoceb]2.0.Co;2  0.482
2005 McCracken KG, Sorenson MD. 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. PMID 15805009 DOI: 10.1080/10635150590910249  0.395
2005 Peters JL, McCracken KG, Zhuravlev YN, Lu Y, Wilson RE, Johnson KP, Omland KE. Phylogenetics of wigeons and allies (Anatidae: Anas): the importance of sampling multiple loci and multiple individuals. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 35: 209-24. PMID 15737592 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2004.12.017  0.433
2005 Kulikova IV, Drovetski SV, Gibson DD, Harrigan RJ, Rohwer S, Sorenson MD, Winker K, Zhuravlev YN, McCracken KG. Phylogeography of the Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos): Hybridization, dispersal, and lineage sorting contribute to complex geographic structure Auk. 122: 949-965. DOI: 10.1642/0004-8038(2005)122[0949:Potmap]2.0.Co;2  0.419
2004 Kulikova IV, Zhuravlev YN, McCracken KG. Asymmetric Hybridization And Sex-Biased Gene Flow Between Eastern Spot-Billed Ducks (Anas Zonorhyncha) And Mallards (A. Platyrhynchos) In The Russian Far East The Auk. 121: 930-949. DOI: 10.1642/0004-8038(2004)121[0930:Ahasgf]2.0.Co;2  0.371
2001 McCracken KG, Wilson RE, McCracken PJ, Johnson KP. Sexual selection. Are ducks impressed by drakes' display? Nature. 413: 128. PMID 11557968 DOI: 10.1038/35093160  0.311
2001 McClellan DA, McCracken KG. Estimating the influence of selection on the variable amino acid sites of the cytochrome B protein functional domains. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 18: 917-25. PMID 11371579 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A003892  0.324
2001 McCracken KG, Johnson WP, Sheldon FH. Molecular population genetics, phylogeography, and conservation biology of the mottled duck (Anas fulvigula) Conservation Genetics. 2: 87-102. DOI: 10.1023/A:1011858312115  0.511
2000 Sheldon FH, Jones CE, McCracken KG. Relative patterns and rates of evolution in heron nuclear and mitochondrial DNA. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 17: 437-50. PMID 10723744 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A026323  0.349
1999 McCracken KG, Harshman J, McClellan DA, Afton AD. 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. PMID 12066296 DOI: 10.1080/106351599259979  0.431
1998 McCracken KG, Sheldon FH. Molecular and osteological heron phylogenies: Sources of incongruence Auk. 115: 127-141. DOI: 10.2307/4089118  0.37
1997 McCracken KG, Sheldon FH. Avian vocalizations and phylogenetic signal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 94: 3833-6. PMID 9108064 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.94.8.3833  0.34
1997 Mccracken KG, Afton AD, Alisauskas RT. Nest morphology and body size of Ross' Geese and Lesser Snow Geese The Auk. 114: 610-618. DOI: 10.2307/4089280  0.346
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