Indian Society of Evolutionary Biologists
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EvolutionIndia retweeted
Lion-tailed macaques in the Western Ghats carry roughly twice as many kinds of parasite when they live beside people, and many of those parasites usually turn up in cattle. 🐒
A write-up from the Centre for Wildlife Studies revisits a 2013 study on the Valparai plateau in Tamil Nadu, where researchers collected 91 droppings from nine troops living in forest fragments. Troops near settlements averaged 5.6 parasite types against 2.5 for troops farther away, and the authors suggest the burden may be one reason fewer young macaques survive in these patches. The macaques are endangered and found only in the Western Ghats.
Read: indiawildlifenews.com/2026/1…
#IndiaWildlifeNews #WhenWildThingsMakeHeadlines #LionTailedMacaque #WesternGhats #TamilNadu #Valparai #AnamalaiHills #Parasites #HabitatFragmentation #Primates #EndangeredSpecies #WildlifeConservation #IndianWildlife #WildlifeIndia #ConservationScience #Biodiversity #WildlifeResearch #NatureLovers #WildlifePhotography #IncredibleIndia #SaveWildlife #ForestConservation
ALT Lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus) by Dharani Prakash. CC BY-SA 3.0
EvolutionIndia retweeted
Many thanks to @NatureInd for covering our world
Fruit flies that evolved over 120 generations on low-protein diets reproduced and laid more eggs early in adult life. But these flies, especially females, were less likely to survive bacterial infections than normal flies.
@AshokaUniv @evoimmunoimroze
nature.com/articles/d44151-0…
EvolutionIndia retweeted
This is my talk on "Creativity in the era of AI". Thanks to Pune Knowledge Cluster for the opportunity. I have a few things to say here that are slightly at variance with the mainstream view. Comments are welcome.
youtu.be/z-GKiVPh29M?si=QIuB…
EvolutionIndia retweeted
David massively revised his preprint. Check out the new version!
Some highlights are more evidence for why range expansion specifically works better than an admixture pulse and what genes may have been inherited from the expanding "mode 3" population
biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
EvolutionIndia retweeted
Check this paper led by @ArkapravaManda7 where we have designed a new cost-effective sediment trap and evaluated in coastal Bay of Bengal @cbobts to address questions related to sedimentation and benthic foraminifera for high energy coastal environment @ITMERG1 @SpringerNature
EvolutionIndia retweeted
Biodiversity safeguards ecosystem services and functions worldwide
nature.com/articles/s41559-0…
EvolutionIndia retweeted
Sharing our preprint, in review at Nature Communications! We found that over time, Rwenzori colobus core units show mean reversion to the optimal unit size that maximizes infant survival! Robust support for optimal group size theory in a wild population!! doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-106…
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Check this paper by @TiyashaCha87991 with @RoshniArora2 @Anweghosh @NirupamaSaini @Vats_Chakresh @Yash_y07 where we show how semi urban & urban areas strongly influence distribution of microplastics as a major contaminant in Bhima River of Western Ghats @ITMERG1 @SpringerNature
EvolutionIndia retweeted
Yay! Our book is in press and the cover is now revealed. Check it out and book your copy: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books…
EvolutionIndia retweeted
Happening today at @IISERPune, 4 pm. Open to All.
K.S. Krishnan Memorial Lecture by
Prof. Marianne Bronner,
Edward B. Lewis Professor of Biology and Director of the Beckman Institute at the California Institute of Technology, USA
You can know more about the life and work of Prof. KS Krishnan in this remembrance by @kvijayraghavan
from 2014.
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EvolutionIndia retweeted
In this study, P. nagaensis is rediscovered from Nagaland (India) and re-examined for its taxonomic identity using additional evidence based on integrative taxonomy by combining morphology and molecular data.
Detailed morphology, digital illustration of male and female genitalia and notes on the occurrence and aggregation behaviour are provided. Based on an integrative approach, additional evidence for the confirmation of identity of P. nagaensis is provided and discussed.
Read the full paper "Integrative taxonomy of Parastrachia nagaensis Distant (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Parastrachiidae) from Nagaland, India" by Swapmil S. Boyane, Dharma Rajan Priyadarsanan & Hemant V. Ghante here: doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.587…
EvolutionIndia retweeted
Will be talking about our speciation research from Asian tropical forests tomorrow at 12.30 IST @Speciation_net
Details of the event and how to attend it: speciation-network.pages.ist…
EvolutionIndia retweeted
Joint ancestry inference reveals the landscape of archaic introgression in admixed populations (preprint) biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
EvolutionIndia retweeted
📖 New research
Beta diversity of Arctiinae moths (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) along a recovering tropical forest gradient🦋 🌳
🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/vKlxwr4
EvolutionIndia retweeted
The latest issue of @Indianentos is now live and free to access! Official magazine of the @EntoIndia connecting researchers, students, and enthusiasts in insect science.
Read here: indianentomologist.org/vol7-…
#Entomology #OpenAccess #Insects
EvolutionIndia retweeted
In our latest study published in @journal_evo, we show that prioritising reproduction over generations when nutrients are scarce suppresses the body's natural pathways to fight disease
@TSB_Ashoka @AshokaUniv @India_Alliance @india_evolution
academic.oup.com/evolut/adva…
EvolutionIndia retweeted
@Mirzapuriy Great to know that you liked the session. It is always fun speaking to journalists, who tend to have a slightly different view point compared to academics!
@IISERPune की VOICE फ़ेलोशिप में वैज्ञानिकों और ज़मीनी स्तर पर काम कर रहे पत्रकारों के बीच सीखने-साझा करने का शानदार सिलसिला जारी है। इस दौरान @DrSutirthDey ने फ़ेलोज़ के साथ AI और CLIMATE जैसे महत्वपूर्ण विषयों पर बेहद उपयोगी चर्चा की। जानकारी, संवाद और सीखने-सिखाने से भरपूर यह एक शानदार सेशन रहा।
@JamwalNidhi @nutshal
EvolutionIndia retweeted
The National Board for Wildlife, mandated meant to safeguard #India’s #wildlife has instead facilitated shrinking or erasing 35 protected areas -including #tiger reserves & PAs harbouring critically #endangered species since 2012, for mining, infrastructure, tourism, temples & urban expansion.
An investigation by #PrakritiSriviastava & myself for @Article14live
Since 2012, India’s apex wildlife body has recommended shrinking or erasing 35 protected areas for mining, infrastructure, tourism & urban expansion. Not one was sent to #SupremeCourt despite its orders
Prakriti Srivastava & @prernabindra
Link 👇
EvolutionIndia retweeted
IISc researchers and collaborators have developed a recombinant, nanobody-based antivenom that offers broad protection against venom from geographically diverse cobra and king cobra species in India. @LabVenomics
Read: iisc.ac.in/events/engineered…
#IIScresearch
EvolutionIndia retweeted
The distribution of fitness effects of nonsynonymous mutations varies phylogenetically across animals share.google/ym5fcmSiXrwBuGp…
