Halanych Lab

Ken Halanych

Associate Professor

Alumni Professor

Marine Biology Coordinator & Liasion

Phone
334-844-3222
Fax
334-844-2333
Lab
334-844-3223
E-mail Ken(at)auburn.edu

 

 
  Molecular Systematics, Phylogeography, & Evolution

Diversity of marine invertebrate is far greater than most people realize. In the Halanych lab, we are trying to understand how such extensive morphological variation came about by exploring questions on different time scales and with different types of genomic information. Combining a molecular systematic and/or genomic approach with information from organismal evolution has proved a powerful approach to study everything from the origin of major animal lineages to the recent biogeographic history of commercially important species.

Selected References:

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). PDF

Passamaneck, Y. J., and K. M. Halanych. 2004. Evidence from Hox genes that bryozoans are lophotrochozoans. Evolution and Development 6:275-281. PDF

Halanych, K. M . 2004. The new view of animal phylogeny. Annual Reviews of Ecology and Systematics. 35:229-256. PDF

Struck, T. H., G. Purschke, and K. M. Halanych. 2006. Phylogeny of Eunicida (Annelida) and Exploring Data Congruence using a Partition Addition Bootstrap Alteration (PABA) approach. Systematic Biology. 55: 1-20. PDF

Passamaneck, Y., and K. M. Halanych. 2006. Lophotrochozoan phylogeny assessed with LSU and SSU data: Evidence of Lophophorate Polyphyly. Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution. 40: 20-28. PDF

Halanych, K. M., and A. M. Janosik. 2006. The state of annelid phylogenetics. Int. Comp. Biol. 46: 533-543. PDF