Dr Ian McCarthy

Uwch Gymrawd Ymchwil

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Room: Room 108A, Nuffield Fish Lab

Phone: 01248 382862

E-mail: i.mccarthy@bangor.ac.uk

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I graduated with a degree in Marine Biology and Zoology from the University College of North Wales, bangor (as was Bangor University) in 1987 and undertook a PhD on individual variation in behavioural and physiological performance in salmonids and sea bass at Aberdeen University under the supervison of Prof. Dominic Houlihan between 1989 and 1992. I remained in Aberdeen for 4 years postdoctoral research studying the physiological ecology of salmonids and flounder. In 1996, I was awarded a NERC Fellowship and I moved to the University Field Station (Glasgow University) on Loch Lomondside to examine the effect of intraspecific variation in physiological performance on growth and life history strategies in salmonid fish. In 1999, I 'popped over the pond' to Mustang Island on the Gulf coast of south Texas to work for Prof. Lee Fuiman at the University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas. My research in south Texas examined the sublethal effects of pollutants on the behavioural and physiological performance of marine fish larvae. I returned to Menai Bridge in February 2002 as a Lecturer in Fish Biology being promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2010 and appointed a Reader in 2016.

Although I trained as a fish biologist, my research interests have broadened and I now work on the behavioural and physiological ecology of aquatic animals (molluscs, echinoderms, crustaceans and fishes). In general, my research interest are:

  1. growth and energetics of aquatic animals (in particular protein synthesis/turnover, trade offs in energy allocation and physiological capacity to survive environmental change)
  2. Consistency of individual physiological and behavioural performance and impacts on life history strategies and fitness
  3. use of chemical tags (isotopes and trace elements) to examine feeding ecology and movement patterns
  4. population biology and management of temperate marine fisheries
  1. 2012
  2. Cyhoeddwyd

    Species, sex, size and male maturity composition of previously unreported elasmobranch landings in Kuwait, Qatar and Abu Dhabi Emirate

    Moore, A. B., McCarthy, I. D., Carvalho, G. R. & Pierce, R., 1 Ebr 2012, Yn: Journal of Fish Biology. 80, 5, t. 1619-1642

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  3. Cyhoeddwyd

    Fish scale δ15N and δ13C values provide biogeochemical tags of fish comparable in performance to element concentrations in scales and otoliths

    Ramsay, A. L., Milner, N. J., Hughes, R. N. & McCarthy, I. D., 1 Medi 2012, Yn: Hydrobiologia. 694, 1, t. 183-196

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  4. 2013
  5. Cyhoeddwyd

    Repeatability of escape response performance in the queen scallop, Aequipecten opercularis

    Laming, S. R., Jenkins, S. R. & McCarthy, I. D., Medi 2013, Yn: Journal of Experimental Biology. 216, 17, t. 3264-3272

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  6. Cyhoeddwyd

    Population genetics provides new insights into biomarker prevalence in dab (Limanda limanda L.): a key marine biomonitoring species

    Tysklind, N., Taylor, M. I., Lyons, B. P., Goodsir, F., McCarthy, I. D. & Carvalho, G. R., 1 Medi 2013, Yn: Evolutionary Applications. 6, 6, t. 891-909

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  7. Cyhoeddwyd

    Population biology and ageing of the deep water sharks Galeus melastomus, Centroselachus crepidater and Apristurus aphyodes from the Rockall Trough, north-east Atlantic

    Moore, D. M., Neat, F. C. & Mccarthy, I. D., Tach 2013, Yn: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 93, 7, t. 1941-1950

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  8. 2014
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    Distribution of ampullary pores on three catshark species (Apristurus spp.) suggest a vertical-ambush predatory behaviour

    Moore, D. M. & McCarthy, I. D., 9 Hyd 2014, Yn: Aquatic Biology. 21, t. 261-265

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  10. Cyhoeddwyd

    Biogeochemical tags in fish: predicting spatial variations in strontium and manganese in Salmo trutta scales using stream water geochemistry

    Ramsay, A. L., Hughes, R. N., Chenery, S. R. & McCarthy, I. D., 11 Tach 2014, Yn: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 72, 3, t. 422-433

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  11. 2015
  12. Cyhoeddwyd

    Validation of the flooding dose technique to determine fractional rates of protein synthesis in a model bivalve species, the blue mussel (Mytilus edulis L.)

    McCarthy, I. D., Nicholls, R., Malham, S. K. & Whiteley, N. M., 23 Hyd 2015, Yn: Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular and Integrative Physiology. 191, t. 166-173

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  13. 2016
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    Discriminating nursery grounds of juvenile plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) in the south-eastern Irish Sea using otolith microchemistry

    Marriott, A., McCarthy, I., Ramsay, A. & Chenery, S. R., 21 Maw 2016, Yn: Marine Ecology: progress series. 546, t. 183-195

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  15. Cyhoeddwyd

    Stable isotope signatures reveal small-scale spatial separation in populations of European sea bass

    Overy, T. L., Cambie, G., Kaiser, M. J., Marriott, A. L., Fox, J., Lambert, G., Hiddink, J. G., Overy, T., Bennet, S. A., Leng, M. J. & McCarthy, I. D., 21 Maw 2016, Yn: Marine Ecology Progress Series. 546, t. 213-223

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