Publications

Published/Archived:

1.  Pal, R. S., Bhowmick, A., Naik, K., and Nandy, B.* (2024). Long mounting with repeated copulations in Zygogramma bicolorata: Adaptive significance of a curious mating behaviour. BiorXive.

2. Verma, T., Das, S., Dhodi-Lobo, S., Mishra, A., Bhattacharyya, S., and Nandy, B.* (2023). Evolution of mate harm resistance in females from Drosophila melanogaster populations selected for faster development and early reproduction. BiorXive. 

3. Halder, S., Kar, S., Sethi, S., Tewari, S., Verma, T., and Nandy, B. (2024). Spatial structure imposes sex-specific costs but does not reduce interlocus sexual conflict. BioRxive. In press, Biological Journal of Linnean Society

4. Verma, T., Dasgupta, P., Mohapatra, A., Senapati, H.K., Muni, R.K., & Nandy, B.* 2022. Evolution of reduced mate-harming tendency of males in Drosophila melanogaster populations selected for faster life history. Accepted. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology BioRxiv. Click here for a read-only version. 

5. Dasgupta, P., Halder, S., Dari, D., Nabeel, P., Vajja, S. S., & Nandy, B.* 2022. Evolution of increased early-life fecundity but faster reproductive senescence in Drosophila melanogaster females through adaptation to chronic live-yeast deprivation. Accepted. Evolution BioRxiv. 

6. Mittal, A., Sarangi, M., Nandy, B., Pandey, N. and Joshi, A. 2022. Shorter effective lifespan in laboratory populations of D. melanogaster might reduce sexual selection.  Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology. 76: 52. 

7.  Zeeshan, S.A., Gupta, V., Arun, M.G., Dhiman, A., Nandy, B. and Prasad, N. G. 2020. Absence of reproduction-immunity trade-off in male Drosophila melanogaster evolving under differential sexual selection. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 20: 13. 

8.  Verma, T. and Nandy, B. 2019.  Does aggression towards rivals contribute to mate guarding in Drosophila melanogaster?  (Pre-print version available at EcoEvoRxiv)

9.   Dasgupta, P., Sarkar, S., Das, A. A., Verma, T. and Nandy, B*. 2019. Intergenerational paternal effect of adult density in Drosophila melanogaster. Ecology and Evolution. 00:1–11.

10.   Singh, S., Nandy, B.* and Tapadia, M. G.* 2018. Complex effects of Ayurvedic formulation – Guduchi and Madhuyashti, on different components of life-history may elude the elixir effect. J. Genet. 97: 1253–1261.

11.  Dasgupta, P., Halder, S. and B. Nandy*. 2016. Paternal social experience affects male reproductive behaviour in Drosophila melanogaster. J. Genet. 95: 725-727.

12. Nandy, B.*, Dasgupta, P., Halder, S. and Verma, T. 2016. Plasticity in aggression and the correlated changes in the cost of reproduction in male Drosophila melanogaster. Anim. Behav. 114: 3-9.

13. Nandy, B., V. Gupta, N. Udaykumar, M. Samant, S. Sen and N. G. Prasad. 2013c. Experimental evolution of female traits under different levels of interlocus sexual conflict. Evolution. 68:412-25. 

14.  Nandy, B., V. Gupta, N. Udaykumar, M. Samant, S. Sen, S. Z. Ali and N. G. Prasad. 2013b. Evolution of mate-harm, longevity and behaviour in male fruit flies subjected to different levels of interlocus conflict. BMC Evolutionary Biology 13: 212. (Open access)

15.  Nandy, B., P. Chakraborty, V. Gupta, S. Z. Ali and N. G. Prasad. 2013a. Sperm competitive ability evolves in response to altered operational sex ratio. Evolution 67: 2133-2141. 

16. Nandy, B., A. Joshi, S. Z. Ali, S. Sen, N. G. Prasad. 2012. Degree of adaptive male mate choice is positively correlated with female quality variance, Sci. Rep. 2, 447. (Open access)

17. Nandy, B. and N. G. Prasad. 2011. Reproductive behaviour and fitness components in male Drosophila are non-linearly affected by the number of male co-inhabitants early in adult life. J. Insect Sci. 11, 67. (Open access)