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Raghavendra Gadagkar

Raghavendra Gadagkar

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
36
Citations
4918
World Ranking
7146
National Ranking
14

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2012 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
  • 2006 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2000 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences

Overview

Raghavendra Gadagkar is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Science in India. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these broad domains, their work focuses extensively on subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Genetics; Social Psychology; Ecological Modeling; and Insect Science.

The scientist's research topics encompass several areas relating to animal and insect behavior, including:

  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Animal and Plant Science Education
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Insect and Pesticide Research
  • Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies

Among the recent publications by Raghavendra Gadagkar are:

  • "A reproductive heir has a central position in multilayer social networks of paper wasps", 2022, Animal Behaviour
  • "Nutrition induced direct fitness for workers in a primitively eusocial wasp", 2021, Insectes Sociaux
  • "The Evolution of Communal Nest-Weaving in Ants: Steps That May Have Led to a Complicated Form of Cooperation in Weaver Ants Can be Inferred From Less Advanced Behavior in Other Species", 2022, Resonance
  • "Dominance behaviour and division of labour in the tropical primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia cyathiformis", 2021, Insectes Sociaux
  • "The Evolution of Eusociality: Insights From Comparing Two Indian Paper Wasp Species", 2023, Indian Journal of Entomology

Frequent collaborators in their research include Nitika Sharma, Anindita Brahma, Sruthi Unnikrishnan, Noa Pinter-Wollman, and Jithu Unni Krishnan.

Raghavendra Gadagkar has also contributed to academic books, including publication with the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, such as "Experiments in Animal Behaviour: Cutting-Edge Research at Trifling Cost." released in 2021.

The scientist publishes regularly in venues such as:

  • Resonance
  • Animal Behaviour
  • Insectes Sociaux
  • Indian Journal of Entomology
  • Journal of Biosciences

Their work has been recognized by several awards and honors, including:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017)
  • Membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2012), with a citation for Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2006)
  • Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (2000)

Best Publications

  • Shape vision in bees: innate preference for flower-like patterns

    M. Lehrer;George Adrian Horridge;S. W. Zhang;Raghavendra Gadagkar

  • The social biology of Ropalidia marginata : toward understanding the evolution of eusociality

    Raghavendra Gadagkar

  • Belonogaster, Mischocyttarus, Parapolybia, and Independent-founding Ropalidia

    R Gadagkar

  • Evolution of eusociality: the advantage of assured fitness returns

    Raghavendra Gadagkar

  • Kin recognition in social insects and other animals—A review of recent findings and a consideration of their relevance for the theory of kin selection

    Raghavendra Gadagkar

  • Survival Strategies: Cooperation and Conflict in Animal Societies

    Raghavendra Gadagkar

  • Quantitative Ethology of Social Wasps: Time-Activity Budgets and Caste Differentiation in Ropalidia Marginata (Lep.) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

    Raghavendra Gadagkar;N.V. Joshi

  • Choosing an appropriate index to construct dominance hierarchies in animal societies: a comparison of three indices

    Alok Bang;Sujata Deshpande;Annagiri Sumana;Raghavendra Gadagkar;Raghavendra Gadagkar

  • Dominance relationship in the establishment of reproductive division of labour in a primitively eusocial wasp ( Ropalidia marginata)

    Sudha Premnath;Anindya Sinha;Raghavendra Gadagkar

  • Social organisation in the Indian wasp Ropalidia cyathiformis (Fab.) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

    Raghavendra Gadagkar;N. V. Joshi

  • On testing the role of genetic asymmetries created by haplodiploidy in the evolution of eusociality in the Hymenoptera

    Raghavendra Gadagkar

  • Regulation of reproduction in a queenless ant: aggression, pheromones and reduction in conflict.

    Virginie Cuvillier-Hot;Raghavendra Gadagkar;Christian Peeters;Matthew Cobb

  • The evolution of caste polymorphism in social insects: genetic release followed by diversifying evolution

    Raghavendra Gadagkar

  • Pre-Imaginal Biasing of Caste in a Primitively Eusocial Insect

    Raghavendra Gadagkar;C. Vinutha;Ashok Shanubhogue;A. P. Gore

  • The role of age in temporal polyethism in a primitively eusocial wasp

    Dhruba Naug;Raghavendra Gadagkar

  • Flexible Division of Labor Mediated by Social Interactions in an Insect Colony-a Simulation Model

    Dhruba Naug;Raghavendra Gadagkar;Raghavendra Gadagkar

  • Ant species richness and diversity in some selected localities of Western Ghats, India.

    Raghavendra Gadagkar;Padmini Nair;K. Chandrashekara;D. M. Bhat

  • Why the Definition of Eusociality Is Not Helpful to Understand Its Evolution and What Should We Do about It

    Raghavendra Gadagkar

  • Dominance Hierarchy and Division of Labour in the Social Wasp, Ropalidida Marginata (Lep.)(Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

    Raghavendra Gadagkar

  • The Social Biology of Ropalidia marginata

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  • The language of diversity

    Raghavendra Gadagkar;Raghavendra Gadagkar

  • Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution

    Raghavendra Gadagkar

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth Adkins-Regan
Elizabeth Adkins-Regan Cornell University
Richard O. Prum
Richard O. Prum Yale University
Simon C. Griffith
Simon C. Griffith Macquarie University
Christian Peeters
Christian Peeters Sorbonne University
Javaregowda Nagaraju
Javaregowda Nagaraju Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics
Brian L. Fisher
Brian L. Fisher California Academy of Sciences
Mandyam V. Srinivasan
Mandyam V. Srinivasan University of Queensland
John Tyler Bonner
John Tyler Bonner Princeton University
Martin A. Nowak
Martin A. Nowak Harvard University
Richard E. Michod
Richard E. Michod University of Arizona

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