Raghavendra Gadagkar

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Raghavendra Gadagkar obtained B.Sc (Hons) and M.Sc. in Zoology from Bangalore University and Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. During the past 25 years he has established an active school of research in the area of Animal Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution. The origin and evolution of cooperation in animals, especially in social insects, such as ants, bees and wasps, is a major goal of his research. By identifying and utilizing crucial elements in India’s biodiversity, he has added a special Indian flavour to his research.

Gadagkar is now INSA SN Bose Research Professor and JC Bose National Fellow at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Chairman, Centre for Contemporary Studies, IISc, Honorary Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Non-Resident Permanent Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study) in Berlin and Adjunct Professor, Indian Institute of Science Educat

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Publications (295)

• Spatial organization of collective food distribution in a paper wasp society
  2023 DOI: 10.1101/2023.10.13.562279
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• Queen succession in the Indian paper wasp Ropalidia marginata: On the trail of the potential queen
  Journal of Biosciences 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s12038-021-00250-7
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• Parallel Histories
  Inference: International Review of Science 2022 DOI: 10.37282/991819.22.23
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• A reproductive heir has a central position in multilayer social networks of paper wasps
  Animal Behaviour 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.12.011
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• Nutrition induced direct fitness for workers in a primitively eusocial wasp
  Insectes Sociaux 2021 DOI: 10.1007/s00040-021-00835-3
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• Dominance behaviour and division of labour in the tropical primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia cyathiformis
  Insectes Sociaux 2021 DOI: 10.1007/s00040-020-00803-3
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• A place for everything and everything in its place: spatial organization of individuals on nests of the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata
  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2019 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.1212
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• To leave or to stay: direct fitness through natural nest foundation in a primitively eusocial wasp
  Insectes Sociaux 2019 DOI: 10.1007/s00040-019-00702-2
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• Ontogeny of familiarity with foraging landscape and foraging abilities in the tropical social wasp Ropalidia marginata
  2018 DOI: 10.1101/272831
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• Current indirect fitness and future direct fitness are not incompatible
  Biology Letters 2018 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0592
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