WELCOME TO BIODIVERSITY LAB!
Biological diversity is organized at various levels, from communities and constituent species to genomes and genes. This diversity and its evolution are influenced by natural and sexual selection exerted by environmental conditions, ecological opportunities, and interactions such as competition and mutualism among and within species. Our lab consists of evolutionary biologists and ecologists who study biodiversity, its complexity and interactions at all these organizational levels, the selective processes that shape them, and the means to preserve biodiversity in the Indian Region. We especially focus on:
Speciation, Adaptation and Morphological Diversification | Batesian Mimicry and the Evolution of Polymorphism |
Evolutionary Genetics of Butterfly Wing Patterns | Phylogeography and Conservation Genetics of Indian Butterflies
Lab News/Media Coverage
- 2012/03: Forbes India magazine interviewed Krushnamegh Kunte regarding his return to India to take up a faculty position at NCBS.
- 2011/12: Krushnamegh received the Ramanujan Fellowship from the Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.
- 2011/09: Our paper on hybrid speciation in tiger swallowtail butterflies was published in PLoS Genetics. The story was covered by NSF (USA), UT Austin, Harvard Gazette, and MSNBC.
- 2011/07: Down to Earth interviewed Krushnamegh Kunte about butterfly diversity and conservation in India.
- 2011/06: News of Krushnamegh Kunte's recent butterfly survey in Sikkim, Eastern Himalaya, appeared in The Hindu, The Telegraph, and the Navhind Times.