Research

Research Interest- Vector ecology and evolutionary ecology 

Model system - Aedes aegypti 

Topic of thesis- understanding effect of early life predation on vectorially significant functional traits of adult female dengue mosquitoes. We are interested in how predation exposure in early life impact blood acquisition related traits like duration of blood feeding or propensity to blood feed. We also looked at the overall energy budget across the treatments to understand, how much time mosquitoes spend in blood feeding, flying and inactivity. To assess the impact we also measured morphometric data of stylet length and wing length, and we are also interested in understand how stylet length and wing length are correlated allometrically.