Harshad Vijay Mayekar

About

Currently pursuing a post-doc in understanding pigmentation plasticity in insect juvenile stages, particularly Drosophilids.

Interested in colour pattern evolution in insect juvenile stages, especially pupal.

Employment

• Ahmedabad University Post-doctoral fellow
  2024 - 2024
• Ahmedabad University Adjunct faculty
  2024 - 2024
• Ahmedabad University Post-doctoral fellow
  2022 - 2024
• Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education Visitor
  2019 - 2020
• Haffkine Institute for Training Research and Testing Research Fellow
  2010 - 2011

Education

• Sophia College for Women Master of Science
  2008 - 2010
• Ramnarain Ruia College Bachelor of Science
  2005 - 2008

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (7)

• No single rescue recipe: genome complexities modulate insect response to climate change
  Harshad Vijay Mayekar, Subhash Rajpurohit
  Current Opinion in Insect Science 2024 2 citations DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2024.101220
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• Pupal colour–pupation substrate correlation in butterflies
  Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 2024 3 citations DOI: 10.1111/eea.13399
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• Clinal variation as a tool to understand climate change
  Frontiers in Physiology 2022 13 citations DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2022.880728
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• Effect of density on pupal colour plasticity in the butterfly Mycalesis mineus (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae)
  Harshad Vijay Mayekar, Ullasa Kodandaramaiah
  Journal of Zoology 2022 3 citations DOI: 10.1111/jzo.12950
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• Partially coupled reaction norms of pupal colour and spot size in a butterfly
  Evolutionary Ecology 2021 21 citations DOI: 10.1007/s10682-020-10090-w
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• Pupal colour plasticity in a tropical butterfly, Mycalesis mineus (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)
  Harshad Vijay Mayekar, Ullasa Kodandaramaiah
  PLOS ONE 2017 22 citations DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0171482
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• Chemosensory Basis of Mosquito Oviposistion Behavior in Aedes aegypti
  Bulletin of Haffkine Institute 2011
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