Interested in sensory & thermal ecology, animal colouration, biomechanics and more :P | Copious drinker of chai | 🐸🦋🌡️| ⚽
Current - Research Fellow @ STRI Panama studying tropical butterflies
Pushkar Wagh
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We also looked at behavioural thermoregulation, exploring temperature selection in adults and heat avoidance in tadpoles!
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Delighted to see a major part of my Masters, that I did with the amazing supervisors - Dr. KS Seshadri and Prof. Maria Thaker finally come out. Also a huge shoutout to Saumitra and our beloved croaky friends! 🐸
For a deeper dive, please give it a read here: rdcu.be/eM1mX
Kudos to the fantastic team :D
Poster by Vidisha M. K.
Frogs and the city!
In a recent study, led by the amazing K. S. Seshadri, we looked at the anuran species composition across the heavily urbanized city of Bengaluru in India.
Our results suggest that the anuran assemblages in Bengaluru appear to be resilient to urbanization (at least for now!)
New paper out in @thermal-biology.bsky.social!
(Actually not so new now, I am super late on this one)
In this study, we determined the thermal tolerance limits of the Asian Common Toad (Duttaphrynus melanostictus) found in India and found that these limits vary significantly across ontogeny.
Check out a full video explainer about this about this research here : www.instagram.com/reel/DXHOFal...
New pre-print with some updates on ivory:miR193 in a highly polymorphic moth.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We mapped ivory (again!?) this time controlling aspects of camouflage in Anticarsia gemmatalis. Mapping, SVs, Expression and Function.
Comments/suggestions welcome!
"The project that was terminated was on this hummingbird, the white-necked jacobin....I suspect that it has something to do with studying a species that doesn’t fit the binary." Researcher @jjinsing.bsky.social interviewed by @carlzimmer.com #birds #nature #science #fundscience #nonbinary 🧪
Pushkar Wagh
Pushkar Wagh
Pushkar Wagh
Pushkar Wagh
A team led by @anthropocenebio.bsky.social and @sangerinstitute.bsky.social with researchers from South America has found that some butterfly and moth species reuse the same two genes to evolve near identical colour patterns 🦋
Open access paper in @plosbiology.org doi.org/10.1371/jour... 🔓 📄
Environmental temperature can critically impact the performance and survival of ectotherms. Assessing the ability to tolerate increasing temperatures …
How do light and noise pollution impact selection on sexual signals? We tested mate attraction and bat predation on túngara frogs. Light and noise interact in complex ways, and light pollution shifts selection on male calling:
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
@andrewdcronin.bsky.social et al.
