Publications:
Kenneth M. Halanych

Phone: 508-289-3565

E-mail: khalanych@whoi.edu

Research interests:

Evolutionary origins and relationships of major metazoan lineages

Molecular systematics and phylogenetic theory

Marine invertebrate evolution

Diversification of hydrothermal vent fauna (especially pogonophorans)

1. Browne, R.A. and K.M. Halanych. 1989. Competition between sexual and parthenogenetic Artemia: A reevaluation. Crustaceana 57: 57-71.

2. Halanych, K.M. 1991. 5S ribosomal RNA sequence inappropriate for phylogenetic reconstruction. Molecular Biology and Evolution 8: 249-253.

3. Halanych, K.M. 1993. Suspension feeding and the lophophore-like apparatus of the pterobranch hemichordate Rhabdopleura normani. Biological Bulletin 185: 417-427.

4. Halanych, K.M. 1995. The phylogenetic position of the pterobranch hemichordates based on 18S rDNA sequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 4: 72-76.

5. Halanych, K.M., J. Bachelor, A.M. Aquinaldo, S. Liva, D.M. Hillis, and J.A. Lake. 1995. 18S rDNA evidence that the lophophorates are protostome animals. Science 267: 1641-1643. (cover).

6. Halanych, K.M. 1996. Convergence in the feeding apparatuses of lophophorates and pterobranch hemichordates revealed by 18S rDNA. Biological Bulletin 190: 1-5.

7. Robinson, T.J., A.D. Bastos, K.M. Halanych, and B. Herzig. 1996. Mitochondrial DNA sequence relationships of the extinct blue antelope, Hippotragus leucophaeus. Naturwissenschaften 83:178-182.

8. Halanych, K.M. 1996. Testing hypotheses of chaetognath origins; long branches revealed by 18S rDNA. Systematic Biology 45:223-246. (cover).

9. Halanych, K.M., and T.J. Robinson. 1997. Phylogenetic relationships of cottontails (Sylvilagus, Lagomorpha): Congruence of 12S rRNA and cytogenetic data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 7: 294-302.

10. Black, M.B., K.M. Halanych, P.A.Y. Maas, W. R. Hoeh, J. Hashimoto, D. Desbruyères, R.A. Lutz, and R.C. Vrijenhoek. 1997. Molecular systematics of vestimentiferan tubeworms from hydrothermal vents and cold-water seeps. Marine Biology 130: 141-149.

11. Halanych, K.M. 1998. Lagomorphs misplaced by more data and fewer taxa. Systematic Biology 47: 138-146.

12. Halanych, K. M. 1998. Considerations for reconstructing metazoan history: Signal, resolution, and hypothesis testing. American Zoologist. 38: 929-941.

13. Halanych, K.M., R.A. Lutz, and R.C. Vrijenhoek. 1998. Evolutionary origins and age of vestimentiferan tube worms. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 39: 355-358.

14. Halanych, K.M., and T.J. Robinson. 1999. The utility of cytochrome b and 12S rDNA data for phylogeny reconstruction of leporid (Lagomorpha) genera. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 48: 369-379.

15. Halanych, K.M., J.R. Demboski, B.J. van Vuuren, D.R. Klein, and J.A. Cook. 1999. Cytochrome b phylogeny of North American hares and jackrabbits (Lepus, Lagomorpha) and the effects of mutational saturation in outgroup taxa. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 11: 213-221.

16. Shank, T.M., M.B. Black, K.M. Halanych, R.A. Lutz, and R.C. Vrijenhoek. 1999. Miocene radiation of deep-sea hydrothermal vent shrimp (Caridea: Bresiliidae): evidence from mitochondrial Cytochrome Oxidase subunit I. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 13: 244-254.

17. Halanych, K.M. 1999. Metazoan phylogeny and the shifting comparative framework. In Roubos, Wendelaar Bonga, Vaudry & De Loof, (Eds.), Recent Developments in Comparative Endocrinology and Neurobiology. Pp. 3-7.

18. Dahlgren, T. G., J. R. Weinberg, K.M. Halanych. 2000. Phylogeography of the Ocean Quahog (Arctica islandica): influences of paleoclimate on genetic diversity and species range. Marine Biology 137:487-495.

19. Halanych, K. M., and Y. Passamaneck. 2001. A brief review of metazoan phylogeny and future prospects in Hox-research. American Zoologist 41: 629-639.

20. Halanych, K.M., Feldman, R.A., and R.C. Vrijenhoek. 2001. Molecular evidence that Sclerolinum brattstromi is closely related to vestimentiferans, not frenulate pogonophorans (Siboglinidae, Annelida). Biological Bulletin 201: 65-75.

21. Dahlgren, T. G. , Åkesson, B., Schander, C., Halanych, K. M., and Sundberg, P. In press. Molecular phylogeny of the model annelid Ophryotrocha. Biological Bulletin.

Other Scientific Comments:

1. Halanych, K.M., J. Bachelor, A.M. Aquinaldo, S. Liva, D.M. Hillis, and J.A. Lake. 1995. 18S rDNA from Lophophorates. Science 270: 1852. (Technical comment related to publication #5.)

2. Halanych, K.M., J. Bachelor, A.M. Aquinaldo, S. Liva, D.M. Hillis, and J.A. Lake. 1996. Lophophorate phylogeny. Science 272:283. (Technical comment related to publication #5.)

3. McHugh, D. and K.M. Halanych. 1998. Evolutionary relationships of metazoan phyla: Advances, problems, and approaches. American Zoologist. 38: 813-817. (Introduction to symposium).

4. Eernisse, D. J. and K. M. Halanych. 1999. Tree of Life Metazoan Home page. http://Ag.Arizona.Edu/tree/eukaryotes/animals/animals.html

5. Halanych, K.M., M. Tieger, G. D. O'Mullan, R. A. Lutz, and R. C. Vrijenhoek. 1999. Brief description of biological communities at 7oS on the Eastern Pacific Rise. InterRidge 8: 23-27. (gray lit.).