Ian McCarthy
Post-doctoral Fellow
The University of Texas at Austin
Marine Science Institute
750 Channel View Drive
Port Aransas, TX 78373-5015
Phone: (361) 749-6784
E-mail: mccarthy@utmsi.utexas.edu

Education

1999-Present  Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Lee Fuiman's laboratory, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Marine Science.

1992  Ph.D. Department of Zoology, Aberdeen University, Scotland.

     My Ph.D, supervised by Prof. Dominic Houlihan, investigated some of the behavioral and physiological factors that can help explain individual variation in growth rates in fish using rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum), and sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax, as model species.

1987  B.Sc. in Marine Biology & Zoology (1st Class honors) University of Wales, Bangor.

 


Professional Experience

1999-present  Research Fellow, University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute.  

      My current project, funded by the Environmental Protection Agency, seeks to examine the effect of parental exposure to sublethal levels of one of several representative endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) on the survival skills and growth performance of Atlantic croaker, Micropogonias undulatus, larvae. The EDCs we are working with are Aroclor 1254 (PCB), methylmercury (organometal) and nonylphenol (alkylphenol).

1996-1999 NERC Personal Fellowship of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Glasgow University, Scotland.  
     In 1996, I was fortunate in securing one of the eight 3 year postdoctoral fellowships awarded by the UK Natural Environmental Research Council (graded alpha-5) to continue research on the physiological and behavioral ecology of salmonid fish. My research examined how individual differences in a physiological trait (standard metabolic rate) influenced the behavior, physiology and subsequent choice of life history strategy in Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar.
1993-1996 Research Fellow, Department of Zoology, Aberdeen University, Scotland.

     From 1993 to 1995, I was employed on a BBSRC project examining the effects of temperature on the behavior, growth and physiology of Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar. From 1995 to 1995, I was employed on a NERC project examining how laboratory derived measures of physiological performance of fish can be used to estimate performance in the field using the physiological ecology of flounder, Platichthys flesus, in the Ythan estuary, Aberdeenshire as a model.




 Research Interests


 Publications

Upcoming papers

McCARTHY, I.D., BLANCO, G. & SANCHEZ, J.A.  (in prep.).  Timing of first feeding, genetic heterozygosity and subsequent life history strategy in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.).

McCARTHY, I.D., FRASER, D., WALDRON, S. & ADAMS, C.E.  (in prep.).  Trophic polymorphism among Arctic charr Salvelinus alpinus L. from Loch Ericht (Tayside, Scotland) determined using stable isotope analysis.

McCARTHY, I.D., ALVAREZ, M. C. & FUIMAN, L.A.  (in prep.).  Environmentally realistic levels of Aroclor 1254 affect growth and survival skills of Atlantic croaker larvae.

OWEN, S.F. McCARTHY, I.D. & HOULIHAN, D.F.  (in prep.).  Repeated measures of protein synthesis in individual juvenile flounder (Platichthys flesus L.). 

McCARTHY, I.D., OWEN, S.F. & HOULIHAN, D.F. (in prep.).  In vivo rates of protein synthesis in juvenile flounder: a comparison of methodologies.

FRASER, D., McCARTHY, I.D., SHIELDS, S., WALDRON, S., ALEXANDER, G. & ADAMS, C.E. (in prep.).  Bimodal life history in Arctic charr from Loch Tay, Scotland. 

PINEDA, H., McCARTHY, I.D., BORRELL, Y.J., VAZQUEZ, E., SANCHEZ, J.A. & BLANCO, G. (in press).  Identification of genetic markers for sex, morphotype and growth in Atlantic salmon using protein allozyme and microsatellite DNA. 

MORGAN, I.J., McCARTHY, I.D. & METCALFE, N.B. (in press).  Life history strategies and lipid metabolism in overwintering juvenile Atlantic salmon.

McCARTHY, I.D. (in press).  Dominance and competitive ability are related to metabolic asymmetry in juvenile rainbow trout.

MOUTOU, K.A., McCARTHY, I.D. & HOULIHAN, D.F. (in press).  The effect of dietary flumequine on food consumption and growth in rainbow trout.

 

Published papers

26 McCARTHY, I.D. (2000).  Temporal repeatability of relative standard metabolic rate in juvenile Atlantic salmon and its relation to life history variation.  Journal of Fish Biology, 57:224-238.  
25 McCARTHY, I.D. & WALDRON, S. (2000).  Identifying migratory Salmo trutta using carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios.  Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 14:1325-1331.  
24 MORGAN, I.J., McCARTHY, I.D. & METCALFE, N.B. (2000).  Life history strategies and protein metabolism in overwintering juvenile Atlantic salmon: growth is enhanced in early migrants through lower protein turnover.  Journal of Fish Biology 56:637-647.  
23 McCARTHY, I.D., GAIR, D.J. & HOULIHAN, D.F. (1999).  Feeding rank and dominance in Tilapia rendalli under defensible and indefensible patterns of food distribution.  Journal of Fish Biology, 55: 854-867.  
22 McCARTHY, I.D., MOKSNESS, E., PAVLOV, D.A. & HOULIHAN, D.F. (1999).  The effects of water temperature on protein synthesis and protein growth in juvenile common wolffish (Anarhichas lupus L.).  Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 56: 231-241.
21 OWEN, S.F., McCARTHY, I.D., WATT, P.W., LADERO, V., SANCHEZ, J.A., HOULIHAN, D.F. & RENNIE, M.J. (1999).  In vivo rates of protein synthesis in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) smolts measured using a single flooding dose injection of  15N-phenylalanine.  Fish Physiology & Biochemistry, 20: 87-94.  
20 McCARTHY, I.D., MOKSNESS, E. & PAVLOV, D.A. (1998).  The effects of temperature on growth rate and growth efficiency of juvenile common wolffish.  Aquaculture International, 6: 207-218.  
19 MOUTOU, K.A., McCARTHY, I.D. & HOULIHAN, D.F. (1998).  The effect of ration level and social rank on the development of fin damage in juvenile rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum).  Journal of Fish Biology, 52: 756-770.  
18 McCARTHY, I.D. & HOULIHAN, D.F. (1997).  The effect of temperature on protein synthesis in fish: the possible consequences for wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) stocks in Europe as a result of global warming.  In Global warming: implications for freshwater and marine fish (Wood, C.M. & McDonald, G. eds.) SEB Seminar Series. No 61. pp 51-77. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.  
17 McCARTHY, I.D., CARTER, C.G., HOULIHAN, D.F., JOHNSTONE, R. & MITCHELL, A.I. (1996).  The performance of all-female diploid and triploid Atlantic salmon smolts on transfer together to seawater.  Journal of Fish Biology 48: 545-548.  
16 CARTER C.G., McCARTHY, I.D., HOULIHAN, D.F., FONSECA, M., PERERA, W.M.K. & SILLAH, A.B.S. (1995).  The application of radiography to the study of fish nutrition.  Journal of Applied Ichthyology 11: 231-239.
15 HOULIHAN, D.F., McCARTHY, I.D., CARTER, C.G. & MARTTIN, F. (1995).  Protein turnover and amino acid flux in fish larvae.  ICES Marine Science Symposium 201: 87-99.  
14 CARTER, C.G., HE, Z-Y, HOULIHAN, D.F., McCARTHY, I.D. & DAVIDSON, I. (1995).  Effects of feeding on the tissue free amino acid concentrations in rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum).  Fish Physiology & Biochemistry 14: 153-164.  
13 HOULIHAN, D.F., CARTER, C.G. & McCARTHY, I.D. (1995).  Protein synthesis in animals. In Nitrogen Metabolism & Excretion. (Walsh, P. & Wright, P. eds.). pp 1-32. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.  
12 HOULIHAN, D.F., CARTER, C.G. & McCARTHY, I.D. (1995).  Protein synthesis in fish. In Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Fishes Vol. 4 (Hochachka, P. & Mommsen, T. eds.). pp 191-200. Elsevier, Amsterdam.  
11 CARTER, C.G., McCARTHY, I.D., HOULIHAN, D.F., JOHNSTONE, R., WALSINGHAM, M.V., MITCHELL, A.I. & (1994).  Food consumption, feeding behavior and growth of diploid and triploid Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar (L.) parr.  Canadian Journal of Zoology 72: 609-617.  
10 McCARTHY I.D., CARTER, C.G. & HOULIHAN, D.F. (1994).  Individual variation in protein turnover and growth efficiency in rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 257: 141-147.  
9 McCARTHY, I.D., HOULIHAN, D.F., CARTER, C.G. & MOUTOU, K. (1993).  Variation in individual consumption rates of fish and its implications for the study of fish nutrition and physiology. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 52: 427-436.  
8 WINBERG, S., CARTER, C.G., McCARTHY, I.D., HE, Z-Y., NILSSON, G.E. & HOULIHAN, D.F. (1993).  Feeding rank and brain serotonergic activity in rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss.  Journal of experimental Biology 179: 197-211.  
7 MATHERS, E.M., HOULIHAN, D.F., McCARTHY, I.D. & BURREN, L.J. (1993).  Rates of growth and protein synthesis correlated with nucleic acid content of larvae of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss): effects of age and temperature.  Journal of Fish Biology 43: 245-263.  
6 CARTER, C.G., HOULIHAN, D.F., BRECHIN, J., McCARTHY, I.D. & DAVIDSON, I. (1993).  Protein synthesis in grass carp, Ctenopharyngodon idella (Val.), and its relationship to diet quality. In Fish Nutrition in Practice (Proceedings of the IVth international symposium on Fish Nutrition and Feeding) (Kaushik, S.J. & Luquet, P. eds.). pp 673-680. INRA, Paris.
5 McCARTHY, I.D., CARTER, C.G. & HOULIHAN, D.F., (1993).   Individual variation in consumption in rainbow trout measured using radiography. In Fish Nutrition in Practice (Proceedings of the IVth international symposium on Fish Nutrition and Feeding) (Kaushik, S.J. & Luquet, P. eds.). pp 85-88. INRA, Paris.
4 CARTER, C.G., HOULIHAN, D.F., BRECHIN, J. & McCARTHY I.D., (1993).  The relationships between protein intake and protein accretion, synthesis and retention efficiency in grass carp, Ctenopharyngodon idella (Val.).  Canadian Journal of Zoology 71: 392-400.
3 CARTER, C.G., HOULIHAN, D.F., McCARTHY, I.D. & BRAFIELD, A.E., (1992).  Variation in the food intake of grass carp, Ctenopharyngodon idella (Val.), fed singly or in groups.  Aquatic Living Resources 5: 225-228.
2 McCARTHY, I.D., CARTER, C.G. & HOULIHAN, D.F. (1992).  The effect of feeding hierarchy on individual variability in daily feeding of rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum).  Journal of Fish Biology 41: 257-263.
1 CARTER, C.G., HOULIHAN, D.F. & McCARTHY, I.D. (1992).  Feed utilization efficiencies of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) parr: effect of a single supplementary enzyme. Comparative Biochemistry & Physiology 101A: 369-374.