Srijan Seal

This study examines evolutionary costs of immune adaptation against single vs coinfecting pathogens in beetles, finding no trade-offs in major fitness traits but reduced quinone production and reproductive costs under limited resources.

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

This study shows that host evolution against coinfections is influenced by the growth and virulence dynamics of individual pathogens, with fast-acting pathogens hindering adaptive success.

The paper presents an improved genome assembly and annotation of the red flour beetle from India, including the first Y chromosome assembly, which enhances genome analysis and evolutionary studies.