- Assistant Professor
- Director, Conner Museum
Biography
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Education
PhD, Population Biology, University of California, Davis
Research Interests
My work explores how the evolution of form and function contributes to the accumulation and maintenance of biodiversity. I integrate biomechanical studies of live animals and big datasets from museum specimens with phylogenetic comparative models of evolution across multi-million-year scales. I am particularly interested in the processes that produce the spectacular diversity of fishes.
Representative Publications:
- Martinez, C.M.*, Corn, K.A.*, S. Williamson, D.R. Satterfield, A.S. Roberts-Hugghis, A.J. Barley, S.R. Borstein, M.D. McGee, P.C. Wainwright. 2024. Replaying the tape of functional evolution across cichlid adaptive radiations. The American Naturalist, 204(3), 242-257. * Authors contributed equally to this work
- Corn, K.A., S.T. Friedman, E.D. Burress, C.M. Martinez, O. Larouche, S.A. Price, P.C. Wainwright. 2022. The rise of biting during the Cenozoic fueled reef fish body shape diversification. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (31) e2119828119.
- Corn, K.A., C.M. Martinez, E.D. Burress, P.C. Wainwright. 2021. A multifunction trade-off has contrasting effects on the evolution of form and function. Systematic Biology, 70(4), 681-693.
- Corn, K.A., S.C. Farina, A.P. Summers, A.C. Gibb. 2018. Effects of organism and substrate size on burial mechanics of English sole, Parophrys vetulus. Journal of Experimental Biology, 221(18): jeb176131.
- Corn, K.A., S.C. Farina, J. Brash, A.P. Summers. 2016. Modeling tooth-prey interactions in sharks – the importance of dynamic testing. Royal Society Open Science 3: 160141.