Chiti Arvind

The paper evaluates avian genome assemblies across geography and taxonomy, revealing underrepresentation of species in the Global South.

This study analyzes the vocal behavior and breeding phenology of Nilgiri Flycatchers using automated recording and detection, finding seasonal singing peaks and diurnal patterns.

The paper presents high-quality genome assemblies for seven bird species from the Western Ghats, improving contiguity and completeness compared to existing avian genomes.

This study uses Bayesian phylogenetic models to analyze song complexity in suboscine birds, finding that sexual selection reduces complexity while territoriality increases it, challenging the dominance of sexual selection as the primary driver.

The paper examines cultural and genetic variation in a tropical songbird, finding strong individual song differences and weak population-level dialects, with cultural transmission decoupled from genetic structure.

This study analyzes song syntax and sharing in a tropical songbird, finding high syntactic variability and social influences on song consistency and sharing.

The paper models habitat connectivity changes for range-restricted birds in response to woodland invasion, finding increased connectivity for forest specialists and reduced connectivity for grassland specialists.

The paper presents the first high-quality genome assembly for the White-bellied Sholakili, using Nanopore and Illumina data, and reports its completeness and functional annotations.

The paper examines how host niche breadth influences parasite prevalence in disturbed vs. natural habitats, finding generalist parasites infect generalist hosts more frequently.