Publications

Ecological drift in the flour beetle microbiome and associated instability in host benefits. Pratibha Sanjenbam, Harshith Koppa Guruswamy, Rittik Deb, Shivansh Singhal, Sneha Garge, Shyamsunder Buddh, A. Dhanush, Al Maman Haque, Shubha Govindarajan, Deepa Agashe; R. Soc. Open Sci. 1 September 2026; 13 (9): 252473. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.252473. 

Comparison between android applications and Class-I sound level meters in SPL measurement performance. S Sasindran, N Devanand, CL Srinivas, R Deb. Acta Acustica 10, 16. 2026

Impact of anthropogenic noise on the acoustically communicating Ensiferan communities: A study from Eastern India. Souradeep Dutta, Metaleptea_45_3, 2025. 

Image-based South Asian bee species identification: a machine learning approach, CL Srinivas, M Sreerag, R Mukherjee, SM Devy, S Mishra, R Deb, Journal of Insect Conservation 29 (4), 55, 2025

Baffling: a condition-dependent alternative mate attraction strategy using self-made tools in tree crickets, R Deb, S Modak, R Balakrishnan, Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287 (1941), 20202229, 2020

Host dietary specialization and neutral assembly shape gut bacterial communities of wild dragonflies, R Deb, A Nair, D Agashe, PeerJ 7, e8058, 2019

Diversity matters: Effects of density compensation in pollination service during rainfall shift, R Mukherjee, R Deb, SM Devy, Ecology and evolution 9 (17), 9701-9711, 2019

Tree crickets optimize the acoustics of baffles to exaggerate their mate-attraction signal, Natasha Mhatre*, Robert Malkin*, Rittik Deb*, Rohini Balakrishnan, Daniel Robert, eLife, 2017

Silent katydid females are at higher risk of bat predation than acoustically signalling katydid males, H Raghuram, R Deb, D Nandi, R Balakrishnan, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1798), 20142319, 2015

The opportunity for sampling: the ecological context of female mate choice, R Deb, R Balakrishnan, Behavioral Ecology 25 (4), 967-974, 2014

A rain forest dusk chorus: cacophony or sounds of silence? M Jain, S Diwakar, J Bahuleyan, R Deb, R Balakrishnan, Evolutionary Ecology, 1-22, 2013

Females of a tree cricket prefer larger males but not the lower frequency male calls that indicate large body size, R Deb, M Bhattacharya, R Balakrishnan, Animal Behaviour 84 (1), 137-149, 2012