India is considered the world's snakebite capital, where over 58,000 snakebite fatalities are registered annually. Most bites are primarily attributed to four snake species: the spectacled cobra (Naja naja), common krait ...

Muscles are an excellent system to dissect the development, physiology and evolution of cell heterogeneity and isoform switching. The vertebrate skeletal muscles are composed of heterogeneous muscle fibres. These fibres ...

DNA encounters topological constraints during essential cellular processes such as replication, transcription, and chromosome segregation. To ensure facile execution of these processes, a ubiquitous class of enzymes known ...

Recent advances in the field of aging have identified cellular senescence as one of the major hallmarks of aging and the accumulation of senescent cells in a biological system is associated with inflammation and many age ...

Viruses pose a major threat to human health and the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic proves as the best evidence for that. Historically, RNA viruses have a major potential to cause such pandemics. They utilise RNA binding ...

p53 is a crucial transcriptional regulator which influences almost every possible pathway that impinges on the life of a cell. As expected of such an instrumental protein, the molecular network of p53 is as diverse as it ...

Male reproductive success in systems exhibiting sexually selected traits can be driven by male mating effort in sexual signals and in the production of nuptial gifts. Male mating effort can be determined by various biotic ...

Studies on meristem identity regulators in Rice (Oryza sativa), a model plant for cereal crops have revealed how meristem identity and transitions are controlled, bearing implications for crop yield improvement. We were ...

Distribution of flora and fauna is shaped by both current and historical processes. In my thesis I concentrated on how the historical component of the governing processes have dictated the current distribution of biota. ...

In my thesis, I found that queens and workers in the primitively eusocial paper wasp Ropalidia marginata use space on their nests non-randomly with a majority of individuals showing spatial fidelity to small core areas, ...