Biology Department Faculty
Christopher Kenaley
Associate Professor of the Practice
Christopher Kenaley
Ph.D.
Contact
Higgins Hall 415
Telephone: 617-552-3105
Email: christopher.kenaley@bc.edu
ORCID 0000-0003-3832-7001
Education
- B.S., Cornell University
- Ph.D., University of Washington
Research Interests
My research focuses on fishes and, in particular the physical and physiological factors that contribute to diversity in feeding and swimming, the molecular basis of phenotypic novelty, and what contributes to diversification in the largest group of vertebrates. I approach this work from a number of angles, including biorotoic and computational modeling, functional morphology, material science, comparative methods, molecular systematics, and taxonomy.
Department
Research
My research focuses on fishes and, in particular the physical and physiological factors that contribute to diversity in feeding and swimming, the molecular basis of phenotypic novelty, and what contributes to diversification in the largest group of vertebrates. I approach this work from a number of angles, including biorotoic and computational modeling, functional morphology, material science, comparative methods, molecular systematics, and taxonomy.
Selected Publications
- Wang, Y., Yang, X., Chen, Y., Wainwright, D.K., Kenaley, C.P., Gong, Z., Liu, Z., Liu, H., Guan, J., Wang, T. and Weaver, J.C., 2017. A biorobotic adhesive disc for underwater hitchhiking inspired by the remora suckerfish. Science Robotics, 2(10), p.eaan8072
- Di Santo, V. and Kenaley, C. P. 2016. Skating by: low energetic costs of swimming in a batoid fish. Journal of Experimental Biology. 219:1804–1807
- Henzy, J. E., Gifford, R. J., Kenaley, C. P., and Johnson, W. E. 2016. An intact retroviral gene conserved in spiny-rayed fishes for over 100 My. Molecular Biology and Evolution:msw262
- Kenaley, C. P. and Lauder, G. V. 2016. A biorobotic model of the suction-feeding system in largemouth bass: the roles of motor program speed and hyoid kinematics. Journal of Experimental Biology. 219(13):2048–2059
- Kenaley CP, Devaney SC, *Fjeran TT. 2014. The complex evolutionary history of seeing red: molecular phylogeny and the evolution of an adaptive visual system in deep-sea dragonfishes (Stomiiformes:Stomiidae). Evolution 68(4):996—1013.
- Kenaley CP, *Stote A, Flammang BE. 2014. The morphological basis of labriform swimming in the bathypelagic fish Scopelogadus beanii (Teleostei: Beryciformes). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 461(2014):297—305
- Pietsch TW, Kenaley CP. 2011. A new species of deep-sea Ceratioid anglerfish, genus Himantolophus (Lophiiformes: Himantolophidae), from southern waters of all three oceans of the world. Copeia, 2011(4):490—496.
- Stevenson DE, Kenaley CP. 2013. Revision of the manefish genera Caristius and Platyberyx(Teleostei: Percomorpha: Caristiidae), with descriptions of five new species. Copeia 2013(3):415—434.
- Zaccone, G., Lauriano, E. R., Silvestri, G., Kenaley, C. P., Icardo, J. M., Pergolizzi, S., Alesci, A., Sengar, M., Kuciel, M., and Gopesh, A. 2013. Comparative neurochemical features of the innervation patterns of the gut of the basal actinopterygian, Lepisosteus oculatus, and the euteleost, Clarias batrachus. Acta Zoologica. 96:127–139
- Kenaley CP, 2012. Exploring feeding behavior in deep-sea dragonfishes (Teleostei: Stomiidae): jaw biomechanics and functional significance of a loosejaw. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 106:224—240.
- Stevenson DE, Kenaley CP. 2011. Revision of the manefish genus Paracaristius (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Caristiidae), with descriptions of a new genus and three new species. Copeia 2011(3):385—399.
- Kenaley CP. 2010. Comparative innervation of cephalic photophores of the loosejaw dragonfishes (Teleostei: Stomiiformes: Stomiidae): Evidence for parallel evolution of long-wave bioluminescence. Journal of Morphology 271(4):418—437 [Cover].
- Kenaley CP. 2009. Revision of Indo-Pacific Species of the Loosejaw Dragonfish Genus Photostomias (Teleostei: Stomiidae: Malacosteinae). Copeia 2009(1):175—189
- Stevenson DE, Kenaley CP, Raring N. 2009. First Records of rare mesopelagic fishes from the Gulf of Alaska. Northwestern Naturalist 90(1):24—34.
- Hartel KE, Kenaley CP, Galbraith JK, Sutton TT. 2008. Additional records of deep-sea fishes from off greater New England. Northeastern Naturalist 15(3):317—334.
- Kenaley CP. 2008. Diel vertical migration of the loosejaw dragonfishes (Stomiiformes: Stomiidae: Malacosteinae): a new analysis for rare pelagic taxa. Journal of Fish Biology 73(4):888—901.
- Kenaley CP. 2007. Revision of the stoplight loosejaw genus Malacosteus (Teleostei: Stomiidae: Malacosteinae), with description of a new species from the temperate southern hemisphere and Indian Ocean. Copeia 2007(4):886—900.
- Kenaley CP, Orr JW. 2006. Rouleina attrita (Osmeriformes: Alepocephalidae): new records for the eastern North Pacific and Bering Sea. Ichthyological Research 53(2):200—202.
- Kenaley CP, Hartel KE. 2005. A revision of Atlantic species of Photostomias (Teleostei: Stomiidae: Malacosteinae), with a description of a new species. Ichthyological Research 52(3):251—263.
*indicates undergraduate coauthor