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Overview

Krushnamegh Kunte is affiliated with the National Centre for Biological Sciences in India. Their research spans several intersecting fields including Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Environmental Science. Within these disciplines, their work focuses on subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Kunte's main research topics include plant and animal studies, Lepidoptera biology and taxonomy, species distribution in relation to climate change, animal behavior and reproduction, ecology and vegetation dynamics, genetic diversity and population structure, as well as insect and arachnid ecology and behavior.

The scientist has contributed substantially to multiple recent publications, including:

  • Phylogenomics Reveals Ancient Gene Tree Discordance in the Amphibian Tree of Life, 2020, Systematic Biology
  • A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins, 2023, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • The evolution and ecology of multiple antipredator defences, 2023, Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • Opportunities and challenges in Asian bee research and conservation, 2023, Biological Conservation
  • A phylogenetic and taxonomic review of baviine jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae, Baviini), 2020, ZooKeys

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Dipendra Nath Basu
  • Athulya Girish Kizhakke
  • Riddhi Deshmukh
  • Dattaprasad Sawant
  • Yu-Feng Hsu

Kunte publishes regularly in several venues, with multiple papers appearing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zootaxa
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • ZooKeys
  • Insect Conservation and Diversity

Best Publications

  • doublesex is a mimicry supergene

    K. Kunte;W. Zhang;A. Tenger-Trolander;D. H. Palmer

  • SEASONAL PATTERNS IN BUTTERFLY ABUNDANCE AND SPECIES DIVERSITY IN FOUR TROPICAL HABITATS IN NORTHERN WESTERN GHATS

    Krushnamegh J Kunte

  • Phylogenomics Reveals Ancient Gene Tree Discordance in the Amphibian Tree of Life.

    Paul M Hime;Paul M Hime;Alan R Lemmon;Emily C Moriarty Lemmon;Elizabeth Prendini

  • Adaptive Genetic Exchange: A Tangled History of Admixture and Evolutionary Innovation

    Michael L. Arnold;Krushnamegh Kunte

  • Sex chromosome mosaicism and hybrid speciation among tiger swallowtail butterflies.

    Krushnamegh Kunte;Krushnamegh Kunte;Cristina Shea;Matthew L. Aardema;J. Mark Scriber

  • Patterns of butterfly, bird and tree diversity in the Western Ghats

    Krushnamegh Kunte;Ajit Joglekar;Ghate Utkarsh;Pramod Padmanabhan

  • The Diversity and Evolution of Batesian Mimicry in Papilio Swallowtail Butterflies

    Krushnamegh Kunte

  • A molecular phylogeny of the cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) with a review of tribe and subfamily classification.

    David C. Marshall;Max Moulds;Kathy B. R. Hill;Benjamin W. Price

  • Competition and species diversity: removal of dominant species increases diversity in Costa Rican butterfly communities

    Krushnamegh Kunte

  • Butterflies of the Garo Hills of Meghalaya, northeastern India: their diversity and conservation

    Krushnamegh Kunte;Sanjay Sondhi;Bensen M. Sangma;Rohan Lovalekar

  • Female-limited mimetic polymorphism: a review of theories and a critique of sexual selection as balancing selection

    Krushnamegh Kunte

  • Allometry and functional constraints on proboscis lengths in butterflies

    K. Kunte

  • Nectarless flowers: ecological correlates and evolutionary stability

    Juilee D. Thakar;Krushnamegh Kunte;Anisha K. Chauhan;Aparna V. Watve

  • Mimetic butterflies support Wallace's model of sexual dimorphism.

    Krushnamegh Kunte

  • Larval host plants of the butterflies of the Western Ghats, India

    Ravikanthachari Nitin;V. C. Balakrishnan;Paresh V. Churi;S. Kalesh

  • The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka: an annotated provisional catalogue, regional checklist and bibliography.

    Benjamin Wills Price;Elizabeth Louise Allan;Kiran Marathe;Vivek Sarkar

  • Predictability in the evolution of Orthopteran cardenolide insensitivity.

    Lu Yang;Nitin Ravikanthachari;Ricardo Mariño-Pérez;Riddhi Deshmukh

  • Disrupting butterfly caterpillar microbiomes does not impact their survival and development

    Kruttika Phalnikar;Krushnamegh Kunte;Deepa Agashe

  • Dietary and developmental shifts in butterfly-associated bacterial communities.

    Kruttika Phalnikar;Krushnamegh Kunte;Deepa Agashe

  • A phylogenetic and taxonomic review of baviine jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae, Baviini).

    Wayne P. Maddison;Imara Beattie;Kiran Marathe;Paul Y. C. Ng

  • Two new dragonfly species (Odonata: Anisoptera: Aeshnidae) from north-eastern India

    Shantanu Joshi;Krushnamegh Kunte

  • Mimicry in butterflies: co-option and a bag of magnificent developmental genetic tricks.

    Riddhi Deshmukh;Saurav Baral;A. Gandhimathi;Muktai Kuwalekar

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris Simon
Chris Simon University of Connecticut
Marcus R. Kronforst
Marcus R. Kronforst University of Chicago
Stephen C. Donnellan
Stephen C. Donnellan South Australian Museum
Peter Andolfatto
Peter Andolfatto Columbia University
R. Alexander Pyron
R. Alexander Pyron George Washington University
J. Mark Scriber
J. Mark Scriber Michigan State University
Martin H. Villet
Martin H. Villet Rhodes University
Wayne P. Maddison
Wayne P. Maddison University of British Columbia
Thomas E. Juenger
Thomas E. Juenger The University of Texas at Austin
Ian J. Kitching
Ian J. Kitching Natural History Museum

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