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Gene Hunt
Research Geologist and Curator of OstracodaDepartment / Division
Education
- B.S., Duke University
- M.S., University of Chicago
- Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research Interests
Deep-sea Ostracoda; macroevolution; quantitative approaches in paleontology.
Publications
Article
- Chiu, Wing-Tung Ruby, Yasuhara, Moriaki, Cronin, Thomas M., Hunt, Gene, Gemery, Laura, and Wei, Chih-Lin. 2020. "Marine latitudinal diversity gradients, niche conservatism and out of the tropics and Arctic: Climatic sensitivity of small organisms." Journal of Biogeography 47 (4):817–828. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13793
- Martins, Maria João Fernandes, Hunt, Gene, Thompson, Carmi Milagros, Lockwood, Rowan, Swaddle, John P., and Puckett, T. M. 2020. "Shifts in sexual dimorphism across a mass extinction in ostracods: implications for sexual selection as a factor in extinction risk." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287 (1933):Article 20200730. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0730
- Evangelista Nogueira, Anna Andressa, Feijo Ramos, Maria Ines, and Hunt, Gene. 2019. "Taxonomy of Ostracods from the Pirabas Formation (Upper Oligocene to Lower Miocene), Eastern Amazonia (Para State, Brazil)." Zootaxa 4573 (1):1–+. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4573.1.1
- Benson, Roger B. J., Hunt, Gene, Carrano, Matthew T., and Campione, Nicolas. 2018. "Cope's rule and the adaptive landscape of dinosaur body size evolution." Palaeontology 61 (1):13–48. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12329
- Collins, K. S., Edie, S. M., Hunt, Gene, Roy, K., and Jablonski, D. 2018. "Extinction risk in extant marine species integrating palaeontological and biodistributional data." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285 (1887):285–285. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1698
- Martins, Maria Joao Fernandes, Puckett, T. Markham, Lockwood, Rowan, Swaddle, John P., and Hunt, Gene. 2018. "High male sexual investment as a driver of extinction in fossil ostracods." Nature 556 (7701):366–+. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0020-7
- Sibert, Elizabeth, Friedman, Matt, Hull, Pincelli, Hunt, Gene, and Norris, Richard. 2018. "Two pulses of morphological diversification in Pacific pelagic fishes following the Cretaceous - Palaeogene mass extinction." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285 (1888):20181194–20181194. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1194
- Fernandes Martins, Maria João, Hunt, Gene, Lockwood, Rowan, Swaddle, John P., and Horne, David J. 2017. "Correlation between investment in sexual traits and valve sexual dimorphism in Cyprideis species (Ostracoda)." PloS One 12 (7):1–19. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177791
- Hunt, Gene. 2017. "Species Concepts in the Rocks." Journal of Mammalian Evolution 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-017-9393-x
- Hunt, Gene, Martins, M. Joao Fernandes, Puckett, T. Markham, Lockwood, Rowan, Swaddle, John P., Hall, Christine M. S., and Stedman, James. 2017. "Sexual dimorphism and sexual selection in cytheroidean ostracodes from the Late Cretaceous of the US Coastal Plain." Paleobiology 43 (4):620–641. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2017.19
- Yasuhara, Moriaki, Hunt, Gene, and Okahashi, Hisayo. 2017. "Quaternary deep-sea ostracods from the north-western Pacific Ocean: global biogeography and Drake-Passage, Tethyan, Central American and Arctic pathways." Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17 (2):91–110. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2017.1393019
- Yasuhara, Moriaki, Iwatani, Hokuto, Hunt, Gene, Okahashi, Hisayo, Kase, Tomoki, Hayashi, Hiroki, Irizuki, Toshiaki, Aguilar, Yolanda M., Fernando, Allan Gil S., and Renema, Willem. 2017. "Cenozoic dynamics of shallow-marine biodiversity in the Western Pacific." Journal of Biogeography 44 (3):567–578. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12880
- Bush, Andrew M., Hunt, Gene, and Bambach, Richard K. 2016. "Sex and the shifting biodiversity dynamics of marine animals in deep time." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113 (49):14073–14078. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1610726113
- Hunt, Gene and Slater, Graham J. 2016. "Integrating Paleontological and Phylogenetic Approaches to Macroevolution." Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 47 (1):189–213. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-112414-054207
- Hunt, Gene, Hopkins, Melanie J., and Lidgard, Scott. 2015. "Simple versus complex models of trait evolution and stasis as a response to environmental change." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112 (16):4885–4890. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1403662111
- Yasuhara, Moriaki, Hunt, Gene, Okahashi, Hisayo, and Brandao, Simone N. 2015. "Taxonomy of Deep-sea Trachyleberidid, Thaerocytherid, and Hemicytherid Genera (Ostracoda)." Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology (96): 1–216. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.1943-6688.96
- Hunt, Gene and Rabosky, Daniel L. 2014. "Phenotypic Evolution in Fossil Species: Pattern and Process." Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 42 (1):421–441. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-040809-152524
- Rivadeneira, Marcelo M., Hunt, Gene, and Roy, Kaustuv. 2014. "The use of sighting records to infer species extinctions: Reply." Ecology 95 (1):238–239. https://doi.org/10.1890/12-1088.1
- Yasuhara, Moriaki, Okahashi, Hisayo, Cronin, Thomas M., Rasmussen, Tine L., and Hunt, Gene. 2014. "Response of deep-sea biodiversity to abrupt deglacial and Holocene climate changes in the North Atlantic Ocean." Global Ecology and Biogeography 23 (9):957–967. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12178
- Hunt, Gene. 2013. "Presentation of the 2012 Charles Schuchert Award of the Paleontological Society to Gene Hunt Response." Journal of Paleontology 87 (3):532–533. https://doi.org/10.1666/0022-3360-87.3.530
- Hunt, Gene. 2013. "Testing the link between phenotypic evolution and speciation: an integrated palaeontological and phylogenetic analysis." Methods in Ecology and Evolution 4 (8):714–723. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12085
- Van Bocxlaer, Bert and Hunt, Gene. 2013. "Morphological stasis in an ongoing gastropod radiation from Lake Malawi." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110 (34):13892–13897. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1308588110
- Yasuhara, Moriaki, Hunt, Gene, Okahashi, Hisayo, and Brandão, Simone N. 2013. "The 'Oxycythereis' problem: taxonomy and palaeobiogeography of deep-sea ostracod genera Pennyella and Rugocythereis." Palaeontology 56 (5):1045–1080. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12035
- Fusco, Giuseppe, Garland, Theodore, Jr., Hunt, Gene, and Hughes, Nigel C. 2012. "Developmental trait evolution in trilobites." Evolution 66 (2):314–329. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01447.x
- Hunt, Gene. 2012. "Measuring rates of phenotypic evolution and the inseparability of tempo and mode." Paleobiology 38 (3):351–373. https://doi.org/10.1666/11047.1
- Yasuhara, Moriaki, Hunt, Gene, Breitburg, Denise L., Tsujimoto, Akira, and Katsuki, Kota. 2012. "Human-induced marine ecological degradation: micropaleontological perspectives." Ecology and Evolution 2 (12):3242–3268. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.425
- Yasuhara, Moriaki, Hunt, Gene, Cronin, T. M., Hokanishi, N., Kawahata, H., Tsujimoto, A., and Ishitake, M. 2012. "Climatic forcing of Quaternary deep-sea benthic communities in the North Pacific Ocean." Paleobiology 38 (1):162–179. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.c1q30
- Yasuhara, Moriaki, Hunt, Gene, Dowsett, Harry J., Robinson, Marci M., and Stoll, Danielle K. 2012. "Latitudinal species diversity gradient of marine zooplankton for the last three million years." Ecology Letters 15 (10):1174–1179. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01828.x
- Yasuhara, Moriaki, Hunt, Gene, van Dijken, Gert, Arrigo, Kevin R., Cronin, Thomas M., and Wollenburg, Jutta E. 2012. "Patterns and controlling factors of species diversity in the Arctic Ocean." Journal of Biogeography 39 (11):2081–2088. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02758.x
- Green, Walton A., Hunt, Gene, Wing, Scott L., and DiMichele, William A. 2011. "Does extinction wield an axe or pruning shears? How interactions between phylogeny and ecology affect patterns of extinction." Paleobiology 37 (1):72–91. https://doi.org/10.1666/09078.1
- Kolbe, Sarah E., Lockwood, Rowan, and Hunt, Gene. 2011. "Does morphological variation buffer against extinction? A test using veneroid bivalves from the Plio-Pleistocene of Florida." Paleobiology 37 (3):355–368. https://doi.org/10.1666/09073.1
- Liow, Lee Hsiang, Simpson, Carl, Bouchard, Frédéric, Damuth, John, Hallgrimsson, Benedikt, Hunt, Gene, McShea, Dan,W., Powell, Jeffrey,R., Stenseth, Nils,C., Stoller, Melissa,K., and Wagner, Gunter. 2011. "Pioneering paradigms and magnificent manifestos—Leigh Van Valen's priceless contributions to evolutionary biology." Evolution 65 (4):917–922. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01242.x
- Geary, Dana H., Hunt, Gene, Magyar, Imre, and Schreiber, Holly. 2010. "The paradox of gradualism: phyletic evolution in two lineages of lymnocardiid bivalves (Lake Pannon, central Europe)." Paleobiology 36 (4):592–614. https://doi.org/10.1666/08065.1
- Hunt, Gene. 2010. "Evolution in Fossil Lineages: Paleontology and The Origin of Species." American Naturalist 176 (Suppl 1):S61–S76. https://doi.org/10.1086/657057
- Hunt, Gene, Wicaksono, Satrio A., Brown, Julia E., and MacLeod, Kenneth G. 2010. "Climate-driven body-size trends in the ostracod fauna of the deep Indian Ocean." Palaeontology 53 (6):1255–1268. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.01007.x
- Hunt, Gene and Yasuhara, Moriaki. 2010. "A fossil record of developmental events: variation and evolution in epidermal cell divisions in ostracodes." Evolution & Development 12 (6):635–646. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1525-142X.2010.00448.x
- Bennington, J. Bret, DiMichele, William A., Badgley, Catherine, Bambach, Richard K., Barrett, Paul M., Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Bobe, Rene, Burnham, Robyn J., Daeschler, Edward B., Van Dam, Jan, Eronen, Jussi T., Erwin, Douglas H., Finnegan, Seth, Holland, Steven M., Hunt, Gene, Jablonski, David, Jackson, Stephen T., Jacobs, Bonnie E., Kidwell, Susan M., Koch, Paul L., Kowalewski, Michal J., Labandeira, Conrad C., Looy, Cindy V., Lyons, Sara K., Novack-Gottshall, Philip M. et al. 2009. "Critical Issues of Scale in Paleoecology." Palaios 24 (1-2):1–4. https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2009.S01
- Rivadeneira, Marcelo M., Hunt, Gene, and Roy, K. 2009. "The use of sighting records to infer species extinctions: an evaluation of different methods." Ecology 90 (5):1291–1300. https://doi.org/10.1890/08-0316.1
- Roy, Kaustuv, Hunt, Gene, and Jablonski, David. 2009. "Phylogenetic Conservatism of Extinctions in Marine Bivalves." Science 325 (5941):733–737. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1173073
- Roy, Kaustuv, Hunt, Gene, Jablonski, David, Krug, Andrew Z., and Valentine, James W. 2009. "A macroevolutionary perspective on species range limits." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276 (1661):1485–1493.
- Yasuhara, Moriaki, Cronin, Thomas M., Hunt, Gene, and Hodell, David A. 2009. "Deep-Sea Ostracods from the South Atlantic Sector of the Southern Ocean during the Last 370,000 Years." Journal of Paleontology 83 (6):914–930. https://doi.org/10.1666/08-149.1
- Yasuhara, Moriaki, Hunt, Gene, Cronin, Thomas M., and Okahashi, H. 2009. "Temporal latitudinal-gradient dynamics and tropical instability of deep-sea species diversity." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106 (51):21717–21720. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0910935106
- Hunt, Gene. 2008. "Gradual or pulsed evolution: when should punctuational explanations be preferred?." Paleobiology 34 (3):360–377. https://doi.org/10.1666/07073.1
- Hunt, Gene, Bell, M. A., and Travis, M. P. 2008. "Evolution toward a new adaptive optimum: Phenotypic evolution in a fossil stickleback lineage." Evolution 62 (3):700–710. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00310.x
- Frame, Kristin, Hunt, Gene, and Roy, Kaustuv. 2007. "Intertidal meiofaunal biodiversity with respect to different algal habitats: a test using phytal ostracodes from Southern California." Hydrobiologia 586:331–342. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-007-0707-5
- Hunt, Gene. 2007. "Evolutionary divergence in directions of high phenotypic variance in the ostracode genus Poseidonamicus." Evolution 61:1560–1576.
- Hunt, Gene. 2007. "Morphology, ontogeny, and phylogenetics of the genus Poseidonamicus (Ostracoda: Thaerocytherinae)." Journal of Paleontology 81:607–631.
- Hunt, Gene. 2007. "Perspective: Variation and Early Evolution." Science 317:459–460.
- Hunt, Gene. 2007. "The relative importance of directional change, random walks, and stasis in the evolution of fossil lineages." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104 (47):18404–18408. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0704088104
- Hunt, Gene, Park, L. E., and Labarbera, M. 2007. "A Novel Crustacean Swimming Stroke: Coordinated Four-Paddled Locomotion in the Cypridoidean Ostracode Cypridopsis vidua (Muller)." Biological Bulletin 212:67–73.
- Hunt, Gene. 2006. "Fitting and comparing models of phyletic evolution:random walks and beyond." Paleobiology 32 (4):578–601. https://doi.org/10.1666/05070.1
- Hunt, Gene and Roy, K. 2006. "Climate change, body size evolution, and Cope's Rule in deep-sea ostracodes." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103 (5):1347–1352. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0510550103
- Jablonski, David and Hunt, Gene. 2006. "Larval Ecology, Geographic Range, and Species Survivorship in Cretaceous Mollusks: Organismic versus Species-Level Explanations." American Naturalist 168 (4):556–564. https://doi.org/10.1086/507994
- Hunt, Gene, Cronin, Thomas M., and Roy, K. 2005. "Species-energy relationship in the deep sea: a test using the Quaternary fossil record." Ecology Letters 8:739–747.
- Hunt, Gene, Roy, K., and Jablonski, David. 2005. "Species-level heritability reaffirmed: a comment on "On the heritability of geographic range sizes"." American Naturalist 166:129–135.
- Hunt, Gene. 2004. "Phenotypic variation in fossil samples: modeling the consequences of time-averaging." Paleobiology 30 (3):426–443.
- Hunt, Gene. 2004. "Phenotypic variance inflation in fossil samples: an empirical assessment." Paleobiology 30 (4):487–506.
- Hunt, Gene and Chapman, R. E. 2001. "Evaluating hypotheses of instar-grouping in arthropods: a maximum likelihood approach." Paleobiology 27 (3):466–484.
- Perich, M. J., Strickman, D., Wirtz, R. A., Stockwell, S. A., Glick, J. I., Burge, R., Hunt, Gene, and Lawyer, P. G. 1995. "Field evaluation of four repellents against Leptoconops americanus (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) biting midges." Journal of Medical Entomology 32:306–309.
Dataset
- Yasuhara, Moriaki, Hunt, Gene, Okahashi, Hisayo, and Brandão, Simone N. 2015. [Dataset] "Data from: Taxonomy of deep-sea trachyleberidid, thaerocytherid, and hemicytherid genera (Ostracoda) Action Action." Distributed by Dryad Digital Repository. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.rd234
Chapter
- Hunt, Gene. 2014. "Macroevolutionary trends." in The Princeton Guide to Evolution, edited by Losos, Jonathan., 573–578. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- Hunt, Gene and Carrano, Matthew T. 2010. "Models and methods for analyzing phenotypic evolution in lineages and clades." in Quantitative Methods in Paleobiology, edited by Alroy, John and Hunt, Gene., 245–269. New Haven, CT: The Paleontological Society.
- Hunt, Gene. 2008. "Evolutionary patterns within fossil lineages: model-based assessment of modes, rates, punctuations and process." in From Evolution to Geobiology: Research Questions Driving Paleontology at the Start of a New Century, edited by Bambach, Richard K. and Kelley, P. H., 117–131. The Paleontological Society.