Vinayak Khodake

Exposure to traffic noise can impact multiple insect fitness components

This study shows traffic noise reduces fecundity and mating efficiency in Drosophila melanogaster, with male locomotor activity also affected, suggesting negative impacts on insect fitness.

Costs of dispersal evolution under larval malnutrition

This study shows that dispersal evolution in Drosophila melanogaster under protein-poor larval diets leads to distinct trait changes compared to standard diets.

Experimental evolution of Drosophila without its microbiome

The paper evolves Drosophila melanogaster without microbiomes for 54-57 generations and finds minimal trait changes despite initial selection pressure.