Kenneth M. Halanych

Kenneth M. Halanych is a professor in zoology at the Auburn University, Alabama. He was born in Baltimore in 1966. He received his PhD in Zoology in 1994, from University of Texas. He works on higher level systematics of invertebrates, mainly marine. According to the Web of Science he has published 87 peer reviewed scientific papers, 32 of them cited 10 or more times.The most widely referred to are:
*Halanych KM, Bacheller JD, Auginaldo AMA, Liva SM, Hillis DM, Lake JA. "Evidence from 18S ribosomal DNA that the Lophphorates are protostome animals "*Science 267(5204): 1641-1643 1995 Times Cited: 248
*Halanych KM. "The new view of animal phylogeny" Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 35: 229-256 2004 Times Cited: 111
*Black MB, Halanych KM, Maas PAY, Hoeh WR, Hashimoto J, Desbruyeres D, Lutz RA, Vrijenhoek RC. "Molecular systematics of vestimentiferan tubeworms from hydrothermal vents and cold-water seep" Marine Biology 130(2): 141-149 1997 Times Cited: 74
*Halanych KM "Testing hypotheses of Chaetognath origins: Long branches revealed by 18S ribosomal DNA" Systematic Biology 45(2): 223-246 1996 Times Cited: 52
*Halanych KM, Demboski JR, van Vuuren BJ, Klein DR, Cook JA. "Cytochrome b phylogeny of North American hares and jackrabbits (Lepus, Lagomorpha) and the effects of saturation in outgroup taxa" Molecular phylogenetics and Evolution 11(2): 213-221 1999 Times Cited: 52
*Shank TM, Black MB, Halanych KM, Lutz RA, Vrijenhoek RC "Miocene radiation of deep-sea hydrothermal vent shrimp (Caridea : Bresiliidae): Evidence from mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I "Molecular phylogenetics and Evolution" 13(2): 244-254 1999 Times Cited: 49
*Halanych KM, Lutz RA, Vrijenhoek RC. "Evolutionary origins and age of vestimentiferan tube-worms "Chaiers de Biologie Marine" 39(3-4): 355-358 1998 Times Cited: 48

According to his web page, the goal of his research is to understand how extensive morphological variation came about by exploring questions on different time scales and with different type of information. He is combining a molecular systematic and/or genomic approach with information from organismal evolution, and has helped him to study everything from major animal lineages to the recent biogeographic history of commercially important species.

External Links

* Halanych Lab [http://gump.auburn.edu/halanych/lab/] Auburn University
* Halanych Lab Home [http://www.whoi.edu/science/B/people/khalanych/KMHLabHome.html] Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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