University of New England

Phil Yund, Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Director of Marine Science Center
(207) 602-2440
pyund@une.edu
Full CV

Education

Sc.B. – Aquatic Biology, 1982
             Brown University

M.Phil. - Biology, 1985
              Yale University 
    
Ph.D. – Biology, 1987
             Yale University

Post-Doc - Biology
                  Brown University
 

Recent Grants

A coastal observing system for Saco Bay (2006) Maine Technology Institute, $499,927 for five years; with S. Zeeman.

Collaborative research: Fertilization in free-spawners – interaction of gamete properties and hydrodynamic regime (2004) National Science Foundation (Biological Oceanography program), $327,976 for three years.  Companion award of $298,835 to F. Thomas (U. South Florida).


Research Interests

Evolutionary ecology of sessile and sedentary marine invertebrates. 
    
Fertilization processes in free-spawning invertebrates 

Selected Publications

Johnson S, Yund PO (2007) Variation in multiple paternity in natural populations of a free-spawning marine invertebrate. Molecular Ecology 16: 3253-3262.

Yund PO, Murdock K, Johnson SL (2007) Spatial distribution of ascidian sperm: Two dimensional patterns and short vs. time-integrated assays. Marine Ecology Progress Series 341: 103-109.

Rawson PD, Yund PO, Lindsay SM (2007) Comment on "Divergent induced responses to an invasive predator in marine mussel populatons'. Science 316: 53     www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/316/5821/53b

Yund PO, Meidel SK (2003) Sea urchin spawning in benthic boundary layers: Are eggs fertilized before advecting away from females? Limnology and Oceanography 48: 795-801.
    
Yund PO (2000) How severe is sperm limitation in natural populations of marine free-spawners? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15: 10-13.