Ken Halanych

[Ken Halanych @Ken_Halanych]

@macroevolut I do not understand why some bash one name for a particular reason but claim another name with the same short comings (and more give the history of the term) is perfectly acceptable to them. There is a lack of consistent logic

[Ken Halanych @Ken_Halanych]

@macroevolut Lophotrochozoa is a node based name, Apomorphy based names are highly problematic. The alternative, Spiralia, is very problematic - apomophorphy based with many animal lacking spiral cleavage - and originally included arthropods.

[Ken Halanych @Ken_Halanych]

@macroevolut @ninatmikkelsen @kmkocot @WillassenE Solenegasters are the outgroup as clearly stated the methods.

[Ken Halanych @Ken_Halanych]

@macroevolut @JordiPaps @Sansom_Rob I have yet to hear a valid scientific reason for not liking Lophotrochozoa. Seem complainers just do not like the sound of it. Not a good reason nor a scientific reason

[Ken Halanych @Ken_Halanych]

@macroevolut @JordiPaps @Sansom_Rob Lophotrochozoa is a node-based name explicitly chosen because synapomorphy-based names are problematic. Arguments about synapomorphy-based names being problematic settled >20 yr ago!!!! Spiralia has numerous definitions, and is not a good synapo for any definition of Spiralia!

[Ken Halanych @Ken_Halanych]

Nice job Rita!! well deserved!

[Rita M Graze @RitaGraze]

My first ever @NSF grants have been awarded! 1. CAREER award to study variation in sex-differential gene expression and 2. IOS grant with @Ken_Halanych and Beth Schwartz on comparative functional genomics of innate immunity. I cannot overstate how excited (and grateful) I am :)

[Ken Halanych @Ken_Halanych]

Ctenophore phylogeny paper w/ @polarfire @kmkocot and Moroz is out in Nature Ecol & Evol https://t.co/oMV65Xk21c -- with N&V by @caseywdunn

[Ken Halanych @Ken_Halanych]

New article on broad phylogenetic occurrence of hemerythrins in bilaterians by Elisa Costa-Paiva in GBE https://t.co/N3aftTeG24

[Ken Halanych @Ken_Halanych]

New Biological Bulletin out @BiolBulletin https://t.co/t0AM80YFqm great genomic issue, brittle stars, barnacle, whale genome, and more

[Ken Halanych @Ken_Halanych]

More on misconceptions about placement of Ctenophores and Sponges. https://t.co/6XSUvnlUki

[Ken Halanych @Ken_Halanych]

Casey Dunn nicely articulates problems misconceptions of Pisani et al. https://t.co/rt6STZlShR

[Ken Halanych @Ken_Halanych]

Casey Dunn nicely articulates some of the major problems and misconceptions with the new Pisani et al. analysis. https://t.co/BY7iWxr5ho

[Ken Halanych @Ken_Halanych]

See latest #phylogenomics paper by @kmkocot in MPE http://t.co/naF238rFt0

[Ken Halanych @Ken_Halanych]

Please follow the Ken's & Halanych lab's latest happenings at @Molette_Lab

[Ken Halanych @Ken_Halanych]

Starting to arrive in Punta Arenas. 4 of us here and the rest to arrive tonight...after 24 hours plus of travel