• Effects of adaptation to crowded larval environment on the evolution of sperm competitive ability in males of Drosophila melanogaster. Fly, 19(1), 2437204.

Kapila, R., Maggu, K., Ahlawat, N., & Guru Prasad, N. (2025).

• Consequences of adaptation to larval crowding on sexual and fecundity selection in Drosophila melanogaster. (manuscript accepted,  January 2022, Journal of evolutionary biology)
  Aaditya Narasimhan 1* , Jigisha 1^ , Rohit Kapila 1+ , Abhishek Meena 1# , Santhosh 1* , N G Prasad

• Evolution of pathogen-specific improved survivorship post-infection in populations of Drosophila melanogaster adapted to larval crowding.

R Kapila, M Kashyap, S Poddar, S Gangwal, NGG Prasad

PloS one 16 (4), e025005592021

• Evolution of sex‐specific heat stress tolerance and larval Hsp70 expression in populations of Drosophila melanogaster adapted to larval crowding.

R Kapila, M Kashyap, A Gulati, A Narasimhan, S Poddar, ...

Journal of Evolutionary Biology 34 (9), 1376-138552021

• Investment in adult reproductive tissues is affected by larval growth conditions but not by evolution under poor larval growth conditions in Drosophila melanogaster.

R Kapila, S Poddar, N Meena, NG Prasad

Current Research in Insect Science 2, 10002712022

• What doesn't kill you makes you stronger: Correlated evolution of adult traits in the populations of Drosophila melanogaster adapted to stressful larval crowding environment.

R Kapila

2021

• Outcrossing Complicates Mutation Purging by Trapping Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Structural Variant Mutations. bioRxiv, 2025-04. (Submitted to PNAS)

 Kapila, R., Saber, S., Verma, R. K., Blanco, G., Eggers, V. K., & Fierst, J. (2025). 

• Using sex-specific Robertson Covariances to estimate within- and cross-sex responses to selection on reproductive traits in Drosophila melanogaster (Submitted to American Naturalist)

           Manas GA., Chechi TS., Bhosle SD., Srishti., Meena R., Ahlawat N., Maggu K., Kapila R., Prasad N G

List of awards and fellowships

• Selected as a Postdoctoral Fellow for the inaugural cohort of the Hispanic Serving Research University fellowship program (July 2025-July 2026)

• Best poster award at Florida Worm meeting, June 2023

• Travel award for finalists of Hamilton symposium for outstanding graduate student presentation ($500), July 2022

• Best Popular Science Story award in PhD category, Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating research, Department of science and technology, Government of India (INR 10,000)-February 2021  

• Qualified All India Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineering (GATE) entrance Examination conducted by the Indian Institutes of Technology for admission to the PhD program in 2018

• Best oral presentation in International Conference on Zoology and Ants, held in Punjabi University, November 2017

• Recipient of Scholarship for Master’s students by Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD),  Government of India (INR 120,000) Aug 2014 – July 2016

•  Recipient of Junior Research Fellowship/Senior Research Fellowship, MHRD (Aug 2016 - Aug 2018)

•  Recipient of Senior Research Fellowship/Senior Research Fellowship, MHRD (Aug 2018 )

• Poster Presentation at Conference for Society for Study of Evolution, Albuquerque, New Mexico,July 2023  

• Poster presentation at Florida Worm meeting, June 2022

• Oral presentation at Conference for Society for Study of Evolution, Cleveland, June 2022

• Oral and poster presentation at European Meeting for PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology (EMPSEB) 26, Online, March 2021

• Oral presentation at European Meeting for PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology (EMPSEB) 25, Portugal, May 2019

• Poster presentation at Indian Society of Evolutionary Biology meeting, CHG Bangalore, December 2019  

• Oral presentation at Interdepartmental Seminar day, IISER Mohali, December 2019

• Oral presentation at International Conference on Zoology and Ants, held in Punjabi University, November 2017

• Poster Presentation during Conference of Evolutionary and Integrative Biology, held in IISER Pune, December 2017

• Oral presentation during intradepartmental seminar day of Department of Biology, IISER Mohali September 2016

• Poster presentation and participation at Third Bangalore School on Population Genetics and Evolution, (ICTS-TIFR) Bangalore, March 2018