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  • Refinement of defection strategies stabilizes cooperation 
    DAHANUKAR, NEELESH; WATVE, MILIND (Indian Academy of Sciences, 2009-03)
    Cooperation among unrelated individuals is an enduring evolutionary riddle and a number of possible solutions have been suggested. Most of these suggestions attempt to refine cooperative strategies, while little attention ...
  • Group Selection and Reciprocity among Kin 
    DAHANUKAR, NEELESH; WATVE, MILIND (Bentham Open, 2009-07)
    The question how Darwinian mechanisms lead to the evolution of individually costly cooperative behavior has given rise to a number of hypotheses. However, attempts to build a synthesis where different types of mechanisms ...
  • The co-optimization of floral display and nectar reward 
    Prajakta, B.; Balasubramaniam, S.; WATVE, MILIND (Springer Nature, 2009-12)
    In most insect-pollinated flowers, pollinators cannot detect the presence of nectar without entering the flower. Therefore, flowers may cheat by not producing nectar and may still get pollinated. Earlier studies supported ...
  • Sociobiological Control of Plasmid Copy Number in Bacteria 
    Watve, Mukta M.; DAHANUKAR, NEELESH; WATVE, MILIND (Public Library Science, 2010-02)
    All genes critical for plasmid replication regulation are located on the plasmid rather than on the host chromosome. It is possible therefore that there can be copy-up “cheater†mutants. In spite of this possibility, ...
  • Metabolic syndrome: Aggression control mechanisms gone out of control 
    Prajakta, B.; WATVE, MILIND; Ghaskadbi, Saroj S.; Bhat, D.; Chittaranjan, Y.; Jog, Maithili (Elsevier B.V., 2010-03)
    An upcoming hypothesis about the evolutionary origins of metabolic syndrome is that of a ‘soldier’ to ‘diplomat’ transition in behaviour and the accompanying metabolic adaptations. Theoretical as well as empirical studies ...
  • Phenotypic Plasticity and Effects of Selection on Cell Division Symmetry in Escherichia coli 
    LELE, UTTARA; BAIG, ULFAT; WATVE, MILIND (Public Library Science, 2011-01)
    Aging has been demonstrated in unicellular organisms and is presumably due to asymmetric distribution of damaged proteins and other components during cell division. Whether the asymmetry-induced aging is inevitable or an ...
  • Can Thrifty Gene(s) or Predictive Fetal Programming for Thriftiness Lead to Obesity? 
    BAIG, ULFAT; Belsare, Prajakta; WATVE, MILIND; Jog, Maithili (Hindawi, 2011-02)
    Obesity and related disorders are thought to have their roots in metabolic “thriftiness” that evolved to combat periodic starvation. The association of low birth weight with obesity in later life caused a shift in the ...
  • Money handling and obesity: A test of the exaptation hypothesis 
    Karve, S.; Shurpali, K.; DAHANUKAR, NEELESH; Paranjape, S.; Jog, Maithili; Belsare, Prajakta; WATVE, MILIND (Indian Academy of Sciences, 2011-06)
    The food reward centres in the brain play a central role in the regulation of food intake and thereby obesity. In the modern lifestyle, a number of artificial rewards such as money have been introduced and brain areas ...
  • Blackmailing: the keystone in the human mating system 
    WATVE, MILIND; Damle, Anuja; Ganguly, Bratati; Kale, Anagha; DAHANUKAR, NEELESH (BioMed Central Ltd, 2011-11)
    The human mating system is characterized by bi-parental care and faithful monogamy is highly valued in most cultures. Marriage has evolved as a social institution and punishment for extra pair mating (EPM) or adultery is ...
  • Why antibiotics: A comparative evaluation of different hypotheses for the natural role of antibiotics and an evolutionary synthesis 
    Kumbhar, Charushila; WATVE, MILIND (Scientific Research Publishing, 2013-01)
    Although secondary metabolites with antimicrobial and other bioactivities are explored extensively, the natural or ecological role(s) of secondary metabolites is not yet clearly known. We review here the different hypotheses ...
  • Human diseases:Insights obtained from wildlife research 
    Patil, Pramod; WATVE, MILIND (Informal alliance, 2013-01)
    Current wildlife research in India is mainly drivenby conservation priorities. Often, studies that donot have a conservation implication are treatedas a sinful luxury. What is less appreciated is thatbasic wildlife research ...
  • Altered autonomic inputs as a cause of pancreatic β-cell amyloid 
    WATVE, MILIND; Bodas, Arushi; Diwekar, Manawa (Elsevier B.V., 2014-01)
    A partial loss of β-cell mass and β-cell dysfunction in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is associated with amyloid deposition but whether it is causal or consequential is debated. Although the in vitro polymerization of ...
  • Widespread predatory abilities in the genus Streptomyces 
    Kumbhar, Charushila; Mudliar, Praneitha; Bhatia, Latika; Kshirsagar, Aseem; WATVE, MILIND (Springer Nature, 2014-04)
    The natural role of antibiotics in the ecology of Streptomyces is debated and still largely unknown. The predatory myxobacteria and many other genera of prokaryotic epibiotic and wolfpack predators across different taxa ...
  • Protein Aggregation in E-coli: Short Term and Long Term Effects of Nutrient Density 
    BAIG, ULFAT; Bhadbhade, Bharati J.; MARIYAM, DINCY; WATVE, MILIND (Public Library Science, 2014-09)
    During exponential growth some cells of E. coli undergo senescence mediated by asymmetric segregation of damaged components, particularly protein aggregates. We showed previously that functional cell division asymmetry in ...
  • Bacterial Growth Rate and Growth Yield: Is There A Relationship? 
    LELE, UTTARA; WATVE, MILIND (Springer Nature, 2014-09)
    In microbial ecology and physiology, growth rate and growth yield are among the most fundamental parameters. The question whether the two are independent of each other or correlated in some way has been addressed by two ...
  • Evolution of Aging and Death: What Insights Bacteria Can Provide 
    BAIG, ULFAT; Bhadbhade, Bharati J.; WATVE, MILIND (The University of Chicago Press, 2014-09)
    Several unresolved issues, paradoxes, and information voids characterize the field of evolution of aging. The recent discovery of aging-like phenomenon in Escherichia coli, marked by asymmetric segregation of damaged ...
  • Special section: evolutionary biology 
    Herlekar, I.; WATVE, MILIND (Indian Academy of Sciences, 2015-05)
    Variations in the population at any given time. This brings faster evolutionary responses. Also, in ecology, we need a more complex system than E. coli. Understanding of adaptation to crowding, competition and evolution ...
  • A theoretical model of community operated compensation scheme for crop damage by wild herbivores 
    WATVE, MILIND; Patel, Kajol; Bayani, Abhijeet; Patil, Pramod (Elsevier B.V., 2016-01)
    Damage to agricultural crops by protected species in the vicinity of wildlife parks is an important but underestimated problem. Since measures to protect crops are generally met with limited success in areas with high ...
  • Cumulative cell division time asymmetry in Staphyloccus aureus 
    BAIG, ULFAT; SUNNY, RON; WATVE, MILIND; LELE, UTTARA (Science Matters AG, 2016-03)
    Asymmetry of cell division involving asymmetric damage segregation is shown to be linked to cellular senescence in bacteria. According to the current mainstream thinking, the asymmetry is observed along the old and new ...
  • Assessment of Crop Damage by Protected Wild Mammalian Herbivores on the Western Boundary of Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR), Central India 
    Bayani, Abhijeet; Tiwade, Dilip; Dongre, Ashok; Dongre, Aravind P.; Phatak, Rasika; WATVE, MILIND (Public Library Science, 2016-04)
    Crop raiding by wild herbivores close to an area of protected wildlife is a serious problem that can potentially undermine conservation efforts. Since there is orders of magnitude difference between farmers’ perception of ...

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