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Kenneth Halanych Ph.D., Alumni Professor and
Coordinator, Marine Biology Program

Office Location:  317 Rouse Life Sciences Bldg Mailing Address: Biological Sciences 101 Rouse Life Sciences Bldg Auburn University, AL 36849 Tel: (334) 844-3222 Fax: (334) 844-2333 ken@auburn.edu   Laboratory Web Page

Education
Ph.D, University of Texas

Research & Teaching Interests
Systematics of marine invertebrates.

Recent Publications
Thornhill, D. J., A. R. Mahon, J. L. Norenburg, and K. M. Halanych. 2008 . Open-ocean barriers to dispersal: a test case with the Antarctic Polar Front and the ribbon worm Parborlasia corrugatus (Lineidae: Nemertea). Molecular Ecology 17: 5104-5117 .

Hunter, R. L. and K. M. Halanych. 2008 . Evaluating connectivity in the brooding brittle star Astrotoma agassizii across the Drake Passage in the Southern Ocean. J. Hered. 99:137-148.

Vallès, Y., K. M. Halanych, and J. L. Boore. 2008 . Group II introns break new boundaries: Presence in an animal genome. Plos One 3: e1488 (6 pages).

Struck, T.H., N. Schult, T. Kusen, E. Hickman, C. Bleidorn, D. McHugh, and K.M. Halanych. 2007. Annelid phylogeny and origins of Sipuncula and Echiura. BioMed Central: Evol. Biol. 7: 57.

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

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