Rodney L. Honeycutt鈥檚 Collaborative Research on Cichlid Fishes in the Neotropics
After receiving a National Science Foundation grant from 2005-2008, and his collaborators Hern谩n L贸pez-Fern谩ndez and have been studying the evolution of cichlid fishes in the Neotropics.
Their most recent collaborative article was recently featured in Evolution: International Journal of Organic Revolution this past spring.
Honeycutt shared some of the background and motivation for his collaborative research...
"Hern谩n L贸pez-Fern谩ndez was the PhD student of Professor Kirk O. Winemiller and me during the time that I was at Texas A&M University. Since coming to Pepperdine, I have continued collaborating with both Hern谩n and Kirk. The research highlighted in this paper is the culmination of a collaboration among the three of us that started with the receipt of a grant from the National Science Foundation.
This paper represents the fifth in a series pertaining to the evolution of cichlid fishes in the Neotropics. Two other papers were published in , one in , and one in .
The paper in Evolution is exciting because it is a synthesis of all the research that we have been conducting on this group of fishes. Clearly, Hern谩n has been the driving force in this research. Since a small boy in Venezuela, Hern谩n has loved cichlid fishes. He is now an associate curator at the Royal Ontario Museum and an associate professor at the University of Toronto."
Image caption from Evolution: International Journal of Organic Revolution, Volume 67, Issue 5. Honeycutt's article was featured as the cover story and inspiration for the journal that issue.
August, 2013