Rodney Honeycutt 

Professor
Natural Science Division
Pepperdine University
United States of America

Biography

Dr. Rodney Honeycutt has written for books and journals, has taught at universities including Texas A&M University and Harvard, and has worked on many research projects. He was awarded two major grants from the National Science Foundation and began his teaching career with introductory biology labs in biology, anatomy and physiology at Texas Tech University. He later became a lecturer in natural history and classification of vertebrates. After receiving his Ph.D, Dr. Honeycutt worked on two postdoctoral fellowships for the Australian National University and the University of Michigan. He began his formal career teaching biology courses at Harvard University. He also taught courses at Texas A&M University for undergraduate ecology majors and graduate courses including molecular evolution, quantitative phylogenetics and speciation genetics.    

Research Intrest

Comparative genomics  

List of Publications
Johnson, P. B., K. L. Martin, T. L. Vandergon, R. L. Honeycutt, R. S. Burton, and A. Fry. 2009. Microsatellite and mitochondrial genetic comparisons between northern and southern populations of California grunion (Leuresthes tenuis). Copeia 3:465-474.
Honeycutt, R. L., L. J. Frabotta, and D. Rowe. 2007. Rodent evolution, phylogenetics, and biogeography. Pp. 8-27 in Rodent Societies: An Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective (J. Wolfe and P. Sherman, eds.). University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 610 pp.Honeycutt, R. L. 2009. Rodentia. Pp. 490-494 in The Timetree of Life (S. B. Hedges and S. Kumar, eds.). Oxford University Press USA, New York, NY, 572 pp.
Honeycutt, R. L., L. J. Frabotta, and D. Rowe. 2007. Rodent evolution, phylogenetics, and biogeography. Pp. 8-27 in Rodent Societies: An Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective (J. Wolfe and P. Sherman, eds.). University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 610 pp.