Balaji Chattopadhyay

This study shows genetic introgression promotes diversification in Old World fruit bats by enabling trait sharing and hybrid speciation, with evidence from genomic analysis of 93 Cynopterus individuals.

The paper examines how anthropogenic habitats affect gut microbiome composition in Southern Indian bats, finding diet-specific taxonomic and functional diversity with signs of functional homogenization due to pollution.

The paper identifies five novel adenovirus lineages in small mammals from the Western Ghats, highlighting unexplored viral diversity and zoonotic potential.

This study examines how species traits and demographic history influence vulnerability to climate change in tropical island birds, finding that diet specialists and large-bodied species show reduced genetic diversity during past climate shifts.

This study reconstructs the biogeographic history of Myrtaceae in the Western Ghats, finding that lineages likely dispersed from Southeast Asia or South America rather than being Gondwana elements.