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Pavankumar Thunga

Ashoka University

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Microbiota drives the sexually dimorphic infection outcomes in mealworm beetles

Srijan Seal, Devashish Kumar, Pavankumar Thunga, Pawan Khangar, Manisha Gupta, Dipendra Nath Basu, Rhitoban Raychoudhury, Imroze Khan

This study shows that microbiota influences sex-specific infection outcomes in mealworm beetles, with females being more susceptible and microbiota depletion reducing this dimorphism.

Biology Letters · Jul 1, 2025Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology