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  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Kenneth M. Halanych is affiliated with the University of North Carolina Wilmington in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and earth and planetary sciences, with a notable focus on ecology, molecular biology, oceanography, global and planetary change, and genetics.

The primary topics of Halanych's work include:

  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology

Halanych's frequent co-authors highlight collaboration in the fields of marine and molecular biology. Among the most frequent collaborators are Damien S. Waits, Andrew R. Mahon, Kevin M. Kocot, Yuanning Li, and Kyle T. David.

Their research has been published extensively in several academic journals, with the most frequent venues being:

  • Oceanography
  • Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Zoologica Scripta
  • Biological Bulletin
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Significant papers by Halanych and collaborators include:

  • New data from Monoplacophora and a carefully-curated dataset resolve molluscan relationships, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Mitogenomics reveals phylogenetic relationships of Arcoida (Mollusca, Bivalvia) and multiple independent expansions and contractions in mitochondrial genome size, 2020, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • Phylogenomic analyses reveal a Palaeozoic radiation and support a freshwater origin for clitellate annelids, 2020, Zoologica Scripta
  • Antarctic ecosystem responses following ice-shelf collapse and iceberg calving: Science review and future research, 2020, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • The phylogeny of Nereididae (Annelida) based on mitochondrial genomes, 2020, Zoologica Scripta

In recognition of their contributions to science, Halanych was awarded the status of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2018.

Best Publications

  • The ctenophore genome and the evolutionary origins of neural systems

    Leonid L. Moroz;Kevin M. Kocot;Mathew R. Citarella;Sohn Dosung

  • Evidence from 18S ribosomal DNA that the lophophorates are protostome animals

    Kenneth M. Halanych;John D. Bacheller;Anna Marie A. Aguinaldo;Stephanie M. Liva

  • The New View of Animal Phylogeny

    Kenneth M. Halanych

  • Phylogenomics reveals deep molluscan relationships

    Kevin M. Kocot;Johanna T. Cannon;Christiane Todt;Mathew R. Citarella

  • Annelid phylogeny and the status of Sipuncula and Echiura

    Torsten H Struck;Torsten H Struck;Nancy Schult;Tiffany Kusen;Emily Hickman

  • Error, signal, and the placement of Ctenophora sister to all other animals

    Nathan V. Whelan;Kevin M. Kocot;Leonid L. Moroz;Kenneth M. Halanych

  • Illuminating the Base of the Annelid Tree Using Transcriptomics

    Anne Weigert;Conrad Helm;Matthias Meyer;Birgit Nickel

  • Species boundaries and global biogeography of the Alexandrium tamarense complex (Dinophyceae).

    Emily L. Lilly;Kenneth M. Halanych;Donald M. Anderson

  • Ctenophore relationships and their placement as the sister group to all other animals

    Nathan V. Whelan;Nathan V. Whelan;Kevin M. Kocot;Tatiana P. Moroz;Krishanu Mukherjee

  • Phylogenomics of Lophotrochozoa with Consideration of Systematic Error.

    Kevin M. Kocot;Kevin M. Kocot;Torsten H. Struck;Julia Merkel;Damien S. Waits

  • Open-ocean barriers to dispersal: a test case with the Antarctic Polar Front and the ribbon worm Parborlasia corrugatus (Nemertea: Lineidae).

    Daniel J. Thornhill;Andrew R. Mahon;Jon L. Norenburg;Kenneth M. Halanych

  • Phylogeography of the ocean quahog (Arctica islandica): influences of paleoclimate on genetic diversity and species range

    T. G. Dahlgren;J. R. Weinberg;K. M. Halanych

  • The Evolution of Annelids Reveals Two Adaptive Routes to the Interstitial Realm

    Torsten Hugo Struck;Anja Golombek;Anne Weigert;Franziska Anni Franke;Franziska Anni Franke

  • Evaluating Connectivity in the Brooding Brittle Star Astrotoma agassizii across the Drake Passage in the Southern Ocean

    Rebecca L. Hunter;Kenneth M. Halanych

  • Molecular systematics of vestimentiferan tubeworms from hydrothermal vents and cold-water seeps

    M. B. Black;K. M. Halanych;P. A. Y. Maas;W. R. Hoeh

  • Dramatic Shifts in Benthic Microbial Eukaryote Communities following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

    Holly M. Bik;Holly M. Bik;Kenneth M. Halanych;Jyotsna Sharma;W. Kelley Thomas

  • Ocean barriers and glaciation: evidence for explosive radiation of mitochondrial lineages in the Antarctic sea slug Doris kerguelenensis (Mollusca, Nudibranchia)

    Nerida G. Wilson;M. Schrödl;Kenneth M. Halanych

  • Lophotrochozoan phylogeny assessed with LSU and SSU data: evidence of lophophorate polyphyly.

    Yale Passamaneck;Kenneth M. Halanych

  • Investigation of molluscan phylogeny using large-subunit and small-subunit nuclear rRNA sequences.

    Yale J. Passamaneck;Christoffer Schander;Kenneth M. Halanych;Kenneth M. Halanych

  • Multiple lineages and absence of panmixia in the “circumpolar” crinoid Promachocrinus kerguelensis from the Atlantic sector of Antarctica

    N. G. Wilson;N. G. Wilson;R. L. Hunter;S. J. Lockhart;K. M. Halanych

  • PhyloTreePruner: A Phylogenetic Tree-Based Approach for Selection of Orthologous Sequences for Phylogenomics

    Kevin M. Kocot;Mathew R. Citarella;Leonid L. Moroz;Leonid L. Moroz;Kenneth M. Halanych

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott R. Santos
Scott R. Santos University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Leonid L. Moroz
Leonid L. Moroz University of Florida
Billie J. Swalla
Billie J. Swalla University of Washington
Nerida G. Wilson
Nerida G. Wilson University of Western Australia
Christoph Bleidorn
Christoph Bleidorn University of Göttingen
David M. Hillis
David M. Hillis The University of Texas at Austin
Robert C. Vrijenhoek
Robert C. Vrijenhoek Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
James A. Lake
James A. Lake University of California, Los Angeles
Richard A. Lutz
Richard A. Lutz Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jeffrey L. Boore
Jeffrey L. Boore University of California, Berkeley

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