Rajendhran Rajakumar

This study shows that ecdysone negatively regulates size and blocks soldier caste development in Camponotus floridanus, with antagonistic interactions with juvenile hormone and temperature regulation.

This study investigates how environmental, endocrine, and epigenetic factors interact to influence size plasticity in fire ants, revealing an endocrine-epigenetic axis that mediates developmental responses to temperature and nutrition.

This study identifies Insulin/TOR pathway components that modulate sex-specific nutritional plasticity in Drosophila eye size and scaling.

The paper reveals decoupled allometric scaling patterns in ant castes and shows how social and developmental factors influence trait-body covariation.

This study identifies a juvenile hormone-mediated switchpoint for minor worker to soldier differentiation in Camponotus floridanus and characterizes the JH signaling pathway involved.

The paper reports the sequencing and manual annotation of the Gerris buenoi genome, identifying gene expansions linked to adaptations for aquatic life.

This paper introduces flySAM, a CRISPRa tool for Drosophila that improves effectiveness, scalability, and ease-of-use compared to existing methods.