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Online preprints (Under review/ revision)
- Seal S*, Dharmarajan G & Khan I*. Evolution of pathogen tolerance and emerging infections: A missing experimental paradigm (under revision) (online preprint)
- Dharmarajan G , Chanda E , Dean KR, Dirzo R , Jakobsen KS , Khan I, Leirs H , Shi Z , Wolfe ND , Yang R , Stenseth NC. The zoonotic origin of major human infectious diseases (under review)
- Bagchi B, Seal S, Raina M, Basu D, Khan I*. Carcass scavenging relaxes the chemical -driven female interference competition in flour beetles (under revision) (online preprint)
- Prakash A, Agashe D* & Khan I* . Basal resistance against a pathogen is more beneficial than immune priming responses in flour beetles (under review) (online preprint)
Published articles
- Bagchi B#, Corbel Q#, Khan I#, Payne E#, Banerji D, Liljestrand-Rönn J, Martinossi-Allibert I, Baur J, Immonen E, Sayadi A, Arnqvist G, Söderhäll I & Berger D* (2021). Sexual conflict drives micro- and macroevolution of sexual dimorphism in immunity. BMC Biology. 19 (114). 00-00 (online access)
- Khan I*, Prakash A and Agashe D* (2019). Pathogen susceptibility and fitness costs explain variation in immune priming across natural populations of flour beetles. Journal of Animal Ecology (online access)
- Khan I, Prakash A, Issar S, Umarani M, Sashidharan R, N Jagadeesh, Lama P, Venkatesan R & Agashe D* (2018). Female density-dependent chemical warfare underlies fitness effects of group sex ratio in flour beetles. The American Naturalist. 191. 00-00. (pdf)
- Khan I*, Prakash A and Agashe D* (2017). Experimental evolution of insect immune memory vs. pathogen resistance. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 284: 20171583. (pdf) (Lay summary)
- Khan I*, Agashe D and Rolff J* (2017). Early life inflammation, immune response and aging. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 284, 20170125 (pdf) (Lay Summary)(Recommended by faculty of 1000)
- Khan I*#, Prakash A# and Agashe D* (2016). Divergent immune priming responses across life stages and populations of flour beetles. Ecology and Evolution. 6: 7847-7855. (open access) (Lay summary)
- Khan I*, Prakash A & Agashe D* (2016). Immunosenescence and the ability to fight bacterial infection in red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. Journal of Animal Ecology. 85: 291-301. (pdf) (Lay summary)
- Chakrabarty A, Bera A, Mukherjee A, Basak P, Khan I, Mondal A, Roy A, Bhattacharyya A, Roy D, Nag S, Ghosh A, Chattopadhyay D & Bhattacharyya M* (2015) Changing bacterial profile of Sundarbans, the World heritage mangrove: Impact of anthropogenic interventions. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology. 31(4). 593-610. (pdf)
- Khan I and Prasad NG* (2013) Male Drosophila melanogaster show adaptive mating bias in response to female infection status. Journal of Insect Physiology. 59: 1017-1023.(pdf)
- Khan I and Prasad NG* (2013) The aging of the immune response in Drosophila melanogaster. Journals of Gerontology: Biological Sciences. 68(2):129-35. (pdf)
- Khan I and Prasad NG* (2011) Mating with large males decreases the immune defence of females in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Genetics. 90: 427–434.(pdf)
- Khan I and Prasad NG* (2011) Sex-specific effect of bacterial infection on components of adult fitness in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Evolutionary Biology Research. 3(6): 79-86.(pdf)
Manuscript under preparation
- Prakash A#, Shit B#, Vale P, Khan I*. Aging leads to loss of antimicrobial peptide-mediated specific immunity in Drosophila melanogaster
- Sarkar S#, Shit B#, Bose J, Seal S, & Khan I*. Tracking dynamic changes in pathogen tolerance and resistance under malnutrition and high tempareture
- Prakash A, Agashe D, Khan I*. Divergent effects of microbiota on evolved immune priming vs resistance in insects
- Prakash A, Seal S, Khan I*. Why do insects evolve memory-like responses as a separate immune strategy? A search for crossroads
