PROF.RAGHAVENDRA GADAGKAR
CENTRE FOR ECOLOGICAL SCIENCES, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE
BANGALORE 560 012, INDIA.
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(1) Gadagkar, R. (1980). Dominance hierarchy and division of labour in the social wasp, Ropalidiamarginata (Lep.) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Current Science, 49, 772-775.
(2) Gadagkar, R. and Joshi, N.V. (1982). Behaviour of the Indian social wasp Ropalidiacyathiformis on a nest of separate combs (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Journal of Zoological Society, London, 198, 27-37.
http://repository.ias.ac.in/23762/1/423.pdf
(3) Gadagkar, R. and Joshi,N.V. (1982). A Comparative Study of Social Structure in Colonies of Ropalidia. In: The Biology of Social Insects, (Eds.) M.D.Breed, C.D.Michener&H.E.Evans. Proceedings of the Ninth Congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects, Boulder, Colorado, August 1982, Westview press, Boulder, Colorado, pp.187-191.
(4) Gadagkar, R., Gadgil, M., Joshi, N.V. and Mahabal, A.S. (1982). Observations on the natural history and population ecology of the social wasp Ropalidiamarginata (Lep.) from peninsular India (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Proceedings of th Indian Academy of Sciences (Animal Sciences), 91, 539-552.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03186154
(5) Gadagkar, R.and Joshi, N.V. (1983). Quantitative ethology of social wasps : Time-activity budgets and caste differentiation in Ropalidiamarginata (Lep.) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Animal Behaviour, 31, 26-31.
(6) Gadagkar, R. and Joshi, N.V. (1984). Social Organisation in the Indian Wasp Ropalidiacyathiformis (Fab.) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). ZeitschiftTierpsychol, 64, 15-32.
(7) Gadagkar, R. and Joshi, N.V. (1985). Colony fission in a social wasp. Current Science, 54, 57-62.
(8) Gadagkar, R. (1985). Evolution of insect sociality - A review of some attempts to test modern theories. Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences (Animal Sciences), 94, 309-324.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03186272
(9) Gadagkar, R. (1985). Kin recognition in social insects and other animals - A review of recent findings and a consideration of their relevance for the theory of kin selection. Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences (Animal Sciences), 94, 587-621.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03191863
(10) Joshi, N.V. and Gadagkar, R. (1985). Evolution of sex ratios in social hymenoptera: kin selection, local mate competition, polyandry and kin recognition. Journal of Genetics, 64, 41-58.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02923552
(11) Muralidharan, K., Shaila, M.S. and Gadagkar, R. (1986). Evidence for multiple mating in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidiamarginata (Lep.) (Hymenoptera:Vespidae). Journal of Genetics, 65, 153-158.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02931148
(12) Gadagkar, R. (1987). Social Structure and the Determinants of Queen Status in the Primitively Eusocial Wasp Ropalidiacyathiformis. In: Chemistry and Biology of Social Insects. Proceedings of X International Congress IUSSI, Munich (Eds. J. Eder & H. Rembold), Verlag J Peperny, Munich, pp. 377-378.
(13) Gadagkar, R., Vinutha, C., Shanubhogue, A. and Gore, A.P. (1988). Pre-imaginal biasing of caste in a primitively eusocial insect. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B., 233, 175-189.
(14) Gadagkar, R. and Gadagkar, V. R. (1988). The Amazing World of the Honey Bees. VijnanaParichaya, 10 (3), 4-8.
(15) Venkataraman, A.B., Swarnalatha, V.B., Nair, P. and Gadagkar, R. (1988). The mechanism of nestmate discrimination in the tropical social wasp Ropalidiamarginata and its implications for the evolution of sociality. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 23, 271-279.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00300574
(16) Gadagkar, R. (1988). Review of Semiochemistry: Flavours and pheromones. Proceedings of the American Chemical Society Symposium Washington, D.C. USA, (Eds.) T.E. Acree& D.M. Soderlund, Walde de Gruyter, Berlin, New York, (1985). TheJournal of the Indian Institute of Science, 68, 72-76
(17) Gadagkar, R. (1989). An undesirable property of Hill's diversity index N2. Oecologia, 80, 140-141.
(18) Gadagkar, R. (1990). Evolution of insect societies : Some insights from studying tropical wasps. In: Social Insects : An Indian Perspective. (Eds.) G.K. Veeresh, A.R.V. Kumar &T.Shivashankar, IUSSI - Indian Chapter, Bangalore, pp. 129 - 152.
(19) Chandrashekara, K. and Gadagkar, R. (1990). Behavioural castes and their correlates in the primitively eusocial wasp, Ropalidiamarginata (Lep.) (Hymenoptera:Vespidae). In :Social Insects : An Indian Perspective. (Eds.) G.K. Veeresh, A.R.V. Kumar &T.Shivashankar, IUSSI-Indian Chapter, Bangalore, pp. 153 - 160.
(20) Venkataraman, A.B., Swarnalatha, V.B., Nair, P., Vinutha, C. and Gadagkar, R. (1990). Nestmate discrimination in the social wasp Ropalidiamarginata . In: Social Insects : An Indian Perspective. (Eds.) G.K. Veeresh, A.R.V.Kumar& T. Shivashankar, IUSSI - Indian Chapter, Bangalore, pp. 161 - 171.
(21) Gadagkar, R. (1990). Social biology of Ropalidia: Investigations into the origins of eusociality. In: Social Insects and the Environment. (Eds.) G.K. Veeresh, B. Mallik, C.A. Viraktamath, Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of IUSSI, Bangalore, India, August, 1990, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi. pp. 9 - 11.
(22) Venkataraman, A.B. and Gadagkar, R. (1990). Evolution of Eusociality: Lessons from the mechanism of nestmate discrimination in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidiamarginata. In: Social Insects and the Environment. (Eds.) G.K. Veeresh, B. Mallik, C.A. Viraktamath, Proceedings of 11th International Congress of IUSSI, Bangalore, India, August, 1990, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi. pp. 71- 72.
(23) Chandrashekara, K. and Gadagkar, R. (1990). Evolution of eusociality: Lessons from social organization in Ropalidiamarginata(Lep.) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). In: Social Insects and the Environment. (Eds.) G.K. Veeresh, B. Mallik, C.A. Viraktamath. Proceedings of 11th International Congress of IUSSI, Bangalore, India, August, 1990, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi, pp.73 - 74.
(24) Chandran, S. and Gadagkar, R. (1990). Social organisation in laboratory colonies of Ropalidiamarginata. In:Social Insects and the Environment. (Eds.) G.K. Veeresh, B. Mallik, C.A. Viraktamath. Proceedings of 11th International Congress of IUSSI, Bangalore, India, August, 1990, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi. p. 78.
(25) Nair, P., Bose, P. and Gadagkar, R. (1990). The determinants of dominance in a primitively eusocial wasp. In: Social Insects and the Environment. (Eds.) G.K.Veeresh, B. Mallik, C.A. Viraktamath. Proceedings of 11th International Congress of IUSSI, Bangalore, India, August, 1990, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi. p. 79.
(26) Premnath, S., Chandrashekara, K., Chandran, S. and Gadagkar, R. (1990). Constructing Dominance hierarchies in a primitively eusocial wasp. In: Social Insects and the Environment. (Eds.) G.K. Veeresh, B. Mallik, C.A. Viraktamath. Proceedings of 11th International Congress of IUSSI, Bangalore, India, August, 1990, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi. p. 80.
(27) Chandrashekara, K., Bhagavan, S., Chandran, S., Nair, P. and Gadagkar, R. (1990). Perennial indeterminate colony cycle in a primitively eusocial wasp. In: Social Insects and the Environment. (Eds.) G.K.Veeresh, B. Mallik, C.A.Viraktamath. Proceedings of 11th International Congress of IUSSI, Bangalore, India, August, 1990, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi. p. 81.
(28) Gadagkar, R., Chandrashekara, K., Chandran, S. and Bhagavan, S. (1990). Serial polygyny in Ropalidiamarginata : Implications for the evolution of eusociality. In: Social Insects and the Environment. (Eds.) G.K. Veeresh, B. Mallik, C.A. Viraktamath. Proceedings of 11th International Congress of IUSSI, Bangalore, India, August, 1990, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi. pp. 227 - 228.
(29) Gadagkar, R. (1990). A test of the role of haplodiploidy in the evolution of Hymenopteran eusociality. In :Social Insects and the Environment. (Eds.) G.K. Veeresh, B. Mallik, C.A. Viraktamath. Proceedings of 11th International Congress of IUSSI, Bangalore, India, August, 1990, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi. pp. 539-540.
(30) Gadagkar, R., Bhagavan, S., Malpe, R. and Vinutha, C. 1990). On reconfirming the evidence for pre-imaginal caste bias in a primitively eusocial wasp. Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences (Animal Sciences), 99, 141-150.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03186384
(31) Gadagkar, R. (1990). The haplodiploidy threshold and social evolution. Current Science, 59, 374-376.
(32) Gadagkar, R., and Venkataraman, A.B. (1990). Nepotistic bee-eaters. Current Science, 59, 445-446.
(33) Gadagkar, R. (1990). Evolution of eusociality : the advantage of assured fitness returns. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London B, 329, 17-25.
(34) Gadagkar, R. (1990). Origin and evolution of eusociality: A perspective from studying primitively eusocial wasps. Journal of Genetics, 69, 113-125.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02927973
(35) Gadagkar, R. (1990). Genetic Diversity and Evolution. In: Proc. MAB Regional Training Workshop Tropical Forest Ecosystem Conservation Development, S & S E Asia. (Eds.) K.K.N.Nair, K.V.Bhat, J.K.Sharma&K.Swarupanandan. Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi, Kerala, pp.3-16.
(36) Gadagkar, R., Chandrashekara, K. and Nair, P. (1990). Insect species diversity in tropics: Sampling methods and a case study. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 87, 337-353.
(37) Chandrashekara,K. and Gadagkar, R. (1991). Behavioural Castes, Dominance and Division of Labour in a Primitively Eusocial Wasp. Ethology, 87, 269-283.
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(38) Gadagkar, R. (1991). On testing the role of genetic asymmetries created by haplodiploidy in the evolution of eusociality in the Hymenoptera. Journal of Genetics, 70, 1-31.
(39) Gadagkar,R. (1991). Belonogaster, Mischocyttarus, Parapolybia, and Independent-founding Ropalidia. In: The Social Biology of wasps. (Eds.) K.G. Ross and R.W. Matthews, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, pp.149-190.
(40) Chandrashekara, K. and Gadagkar, R. (1991). Unmated Queens in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidiamarginata (Lep.) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). InsectesSociaux, 38, 213-216.
(41) Gadagkar, R., Bhagavan, S., Malpe, R. and Vinutha, C. (1991). Seasonal variation in the onset of egg laying in a primitively eusocial wasp : Implications for the evolution of sociality. Entomon, 16, 167-174.
(42) Gadagkar, R., Bhagavan, S., Chandrashekara, K., and Vinutha, C. (1991). The role of larval nutrition in pre-imaginal biasing of caste in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidiamarginata (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)(Lep.). Ecological Entomology, 16, 435-440.
(43) Gadagkar, R., Chandrashekara, K., Chandran, S. and Bhagavan, S. (1991). Worker-Brood Genetic Relatedness in a Primitively Eusocial Wasp - a pedigree analysis. Naturwissenschaften, 78, 523-526.
(44) Gadagkar, R. (1991). Demographic predisposition to the evolution of eusociality - A hierarchy of models. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., 88, 10993-10997.
(45) Gadagkar, R. (1991). More gene wars. Current Science, 61, p.441. (Scientific Correspondence).
(46) Gadagkar, R. (1992). New agenda for social insect research: A Review of Success and Dominance in Ecosystems : The Case of the Social Insects by E.O.Wilson, Ecology Institute, Germany. Current Science, 62, 317-318.
(47) Gadagkar, R. (1992). When fathers harass their sons. Down to Earth, 1(8), 47-48.
(48) Gadagkar, R. (1992). Disease and social evolution. Current Science, 63, 285-286.
(49) Gadagkar, R. (1992). World's biodiversity needs to be preserved. Down to Earth, 1(11), 43-44.
(50) Chandrashekara, K. and Gadagkar, R. (1992). Queen Succession in the Primitively Eusocial Tropical Wasp Ropalidiamarginata(Lep.)(Hymenoptera : Vespidae). Journal of Insect Behavior, 5, 193-209.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01049289
(51) Venkataraman, A. and Gadagkar, R. (1992). Kin recognition in a semi-natural context: Behaviour towards foreign conspecifics in the social wasp Ropalidiamarginata (Lep.) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). InsectesSociaux, 39, 285-299.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01323949
(52) Gadagkar, R. (1987). What are Social Insects? IUSSI Indian Chapter, Newsletter 1(2), 3-4.
(53) Gadagkar, R. (1988). Kin recognition in social insects. IUSSI Indian Chapter, Newsletter 2(1), 4-5.
(54) Gadagkar, R. (1988). The Genetic Basis of Behaviour. IUSSI Indian Chapter, Newsletter 2(2), 4-5.
(55) Gadagkar, R. (1992). Growing old in the wild. Down to Earth, 1(15), 46-47.
(56) Gadagkar,R.(1993). And now.......... eusocial thrips! Current Science, 64, 215-216.
(57) Gadagkar, R. (1993). Persistence helps masquerading ant raiders. Down to Earth, 1(20), p.45.
(58) Venkataraman, A.B. and Gadagkar, R. (1993). Differential aggression towards alien conspecifics in a primitively eusocial wasp. Current Science, 64, 601-603.
(59) Sinha, A., Premnath, S., Chandrashekara, K. and Gadagkar, R. (1993). Ropalidiarufoplagiata : a polistine wasp society probably lacking permanent reproductive division of labour. InsectesSociaux, 40, 69-86.
(60) Gadagkar, R. (1993). Can Animals be Spiteful? Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 8, 232-234.
(61) Gadagkar, R. (1993). Bed and breakfast available, only for a year. Down to Earth, 2(3), 46-47.
(62) Gadagkar, R. (1992). "What is Life"? – Reconsidered - A Review of - The Origins of Life by Freeman Dyson, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Bulletin of Sciences, 6(4) 44-45.
(63) Gadagkar, R. (1993). Western scientists set the trends. Down to Earth, 2(7), 45-46.
(64) Gadagkar, R., Chandrashekara, K., Chandran, S. and Bhagavan, S. (1993). Queen success is correlated with worker-brood genetic relatedness in a primitively eusocial wasp (Ropalidiamarginata). Experientia, 49, 714-717.
(65) Gadagkar, R., Chandrashekara, K., Chandran, S., and Bhagavan, S. (1993). Serial polygyny in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidiamarginata : implications for the evolution of sociality. In: Queen Number and Sociality in Insects. (Ed. L.Keller), Oxford University press, Oxford, pp.188-214
(66) Gadagkar, R., Nair, P., Chandrashekara, K. and Bhat, D.M. (1993). Ant species richness and diversity in some selected localities of Western Ghats, India. Hexapoda, 5, 79-94.
(67) Gadagkar, R. (1994). The Evolution of Altruism in Insects - A Case Study. In: Perspectives in Entomological Research (Ed. O.P. Agarwal). Scientific Publishers, Jodhpur, pp. 263-275.
(68) Gadagkar, R. (1994). Spiteful animals still to be discovered - a reply to Keller et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 9, p.103.
(69) Gadagkar, R., and Bonner, J.T. (1994). Social insects and social amoebae. J.Biosciences, 19, 219-245.
(70) Gadagkar, R. (1994). The Evolution of Eusociality. In: Les InsectesSociaux (Eds.) A.Lenoir, G.Arnold and M.Lepage. Proceedings of the 12th Congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects IUSSI, Paris, Sorbonne 21-27th August 1994, Universite Paris Nord, pp. 10-12.
(71) Premnath, S., Sinha, A.andGadagkar, R. (1994). Dominance behaviour and the resolution of intra-colonial conflicts in the primitively eusocial wasp, Ropalidiamarginata. In: Les InsectesSociaux (Eds.) A.Lenoir, G.Arnold and M.Lepage. Proceedings of the 12th Congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects IUSSI, Paris, Sorbonne 21- 27th August 1994, Universite Paris Nord, p. 242.
(72) Gadagkar, R. (1993). My Vacation with Apis mellifera. IUSSI Indian Chapter, Newsletter, 7 (1,2), 3-4.
(73) Gadagkar, R. (1993). A Review of – Chemical Ecology of Phytophagous Insects (Eds.) T.N.Ananthakrishnan&A.Raman, Oxford and IBH Publishing Co.Pvt.Ltd, New Delhi. Phytophaga, 5, 135-137.
(74) Gadagkar, R. (1994). Why the definition of eusociality is not helpful to understand its evolution and what should we do about it. Oikos, 70, 485-488.
(75) Kirchner, W.H. and Gadagkar, R. (1994). Discrimination of nestmate workers and drones in honeybees. InsectesSociaux, 41, 335-338.
(76) Gadagkar, R. (1994). Social Insect Buffs Swarm in Paris and decide to go to Adelaide. IUSSI Indian Chapter, Newsletter, 8 (1,2), 4-5.
(77) Gadagkar, R. (1995). Observational study of animal behaviour: From instinct to intelligence. Current Science, 68, 185-196.
(78) Lehrer, M., Horridge, G.A., Zhang, S.W. and Gadagkar, R. (1995). Shape vision in bees: innate preference for flower-like patterns. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London, 347, 123-137.
(79) Gadagkar, R. (1994). A Review of - The Natural History of Inbreeding and Outbreeding : Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives (Ed.) N.W.Thornhill. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago (1993). Tropical Ecology, 35, 349-352.
(80) Gadagkar, R. (1994). A Review of - Behaviour and Social Evolution of Wasps : The Communal Aggregation Hypothesis. YosiakiItô, (Eds.) R.M.May and P.H.Harvey. Oxford University Press, Oxford (1993). TheQuarterly Review of Biology, 69, 558-559.
(81) Gadagkar, R.andArathi, H.S. (1995). Complex domestic conflicts in a bird family. Current Science, 68, 676-677.
(82) Premnath, S., Sinha, A. and Gadagkar, R. (1995). Regulation of worker activity in a primitively eusocial wasp, Ropalidiamarginata. Behavioral Ecology, 6, 117-123.
(83) Gadagkar, R. (1995).Biodiversity -Challenges and Opportunities. Proceedings of the Seminar on United Nations for a Better World, held on the occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of United Nations, Sponsored by KengalHanumanthaiya Foundation, Bangalore, June 26th – 28th, 1995.
(84) Gadagkar, R. (1995). Can animals count ?Current Science, 68, 1180-1182.
(85) Gadagkar, R. (1995). Honey, I got the bees right! Times of India, July 18.
(86) Venkataraman, A. B. and Gadagkar, R. (1995). Age-Specific Acceptance of Unrelated Conspecifics on Nests of the Primitively Eusocial Wasp Ropalidiamarginata. Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy, B61, 299-314.
(87) Shakarad, M. and Gadagkar, R. (1995). Colony founding in the primitively eusocial wasp, Ropalidiamarginata (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Ecological Entomology, 20, 273- 282.
(88) Gadagkar, R. (1995). Cooperation and conflict in an insect society. TheJournal of the Indian Institute of Science, 75, 333-352.
(89) Gadagkar, R. (1996). Complex behaviour in Social Wasps - Towards a scientific study. In: Readings in Behaviour, (Eds.) R. Ramamurthi&Geethabali, New Age International Limited, New Delhi, pp.135-144.
(90) Gadagkar, R. (1996). The Pains and Pleasures of doing Ethology in India. In: Readings in Behaviour, (Eds.) R.Ramamurthi&Geethabali, New Age International Limited, New Delhi, pp.1-13.
(91) Arathi, H.S. and Gadagkar, R. (1996). Can genetically unrelated individuals join colonies of Ropalidiamarginata?In:Readings in Behaviour, (Eds.) R.Ramamurthi&Geethabali, New Age International Limited, New Delhi, pp.153-159.
(92) Shakarad, M. and Gadagkar, R. (!996). Why are there multiple-foundress colonies in Ropalidiamarginata? In:Readings in Behaviour, (Eds.) R.Ramamurthi&Geethabali, New Age International Limited, New Delhi, pp.145-152.
(93) Premnath, S., Sinha, A. and Gadagkar, R. (1996). How is colony activity regulated in Ropalidiamarginata? In: Readings in Behaviour, (Eds.) R.Ramamurthi&Geethabali, New Age International Limited, New Delhi, pp.160-167.
(94) Gadagkar,R. (1996). The Honeybee Dance-Language Controversy - Robot Bee Comes to the Rescue. Resonance - journal of science education, 1 (1), 63-70.
(95) Gadagkar, R. (1996). Africans in the Americas: A Problem? A Cool Objective Assessment of the Killer Bee Problem - A Review of - Killer Bees - The Africanized Honey Bee in the Americas by Mark L.Winston, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1992). Resonance - journal of science education, 1 (2), 117-119.
(96) Gadagkar, R. and Kolatkar, M. (1996). Evidence for Avian Mafia! Current Science, 70, 115-117.
(97) Geetha, L. andGadagkar, R. (1996). How does a fungus know the time of day? Current Science, 70, 419-421.
(98) Chandrashekara, K. and Gadagkar, R. (1995). A Review of - Functional Dynamics of Phytophagous Insects (Ed.) T.N. Ananthakrishnan, Oxford and IBH, New Delhi (1994). Current Science, 69, 470-471.
(99) Gadagkar, R. (1996). Exploring Japan ecologically. Down to Earth, 4 (22), 22-23.
(100) Gadagkar, R. (1996). The evolution of eusociality, including a review of the social status of Ropalidiamarginata. In: Natural History and Evolution of Paper-Wasps, (Eds.) S.Turillazzi&M.J.West-Eberhard, OxfordUniversity Press, Oxford, pp. 248-271.
(101) Gadagkar, R. (1996). Molecular Techniques in the study of Organismic Biology - Challenges and Oppurtunities. In: Biotechnological Perspectives in Chemical Ecology of Insects. (Ed.) T.N.Ananthakrishnan, Oxford and IBH Publishing Co. Pvt.Ltd, New Delhi, pp.265-274.
(102) Gadagkar, R. (1996). The Making of a Scientist - A Life Worthy of Admiration and Imitation. A Review of - Naturalist by E.O.Wilson,Island Press/Shearwater Books, Washington D.C. (1994). Resonance - journal of science education, 1 (4), 87-89.
(103) Gadagkar, R. (1995). Conservation Pays... Down to Earth, December 15, 46-47.
(104) Gadagkar, R. (1996). A Review of - The coevolutionary process by John N.Thompson, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London (1994). Tropical Ecology, 37, 147-148.
(105) Premnath, S., Sinha, A. and Gadagkar, R. (1996). Dominance relationship in the establishment of reproductive division of labour in a primitively eusocial wasp (Ropalidiamarginata). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 39, 125-132.
(106) Gadagkar, R. and Kolatkar, M. (1996). Evidence for Bird Mafia! Threat Pays. Resonance - journal of science education, 1 (5), 82-84.
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 Gadagkar, R. (1996). Konrad Lorenz - father to ethology and mother to ducks, geese, jackdaws, salamanders, fish and many more! Resonance - journal of science education, 1 (6), 2-3.
(108) Gadagkar, R. (1996). Sharing the blame. Down to Earth, 24-26.
(109) Gadagkar, R. (1996). What’s the essence of royalty - one keto group? Current Science, 71, 975-980.
(110) Shakarad, M. and Gadagkar, R. (1997). Do Social Wasps Choose Nesting Srategies Based on Their Brood Rearing Abilities? Naturwissenschaften, 84, 79-82.
(111) Rastogi, N., Nair, P., Kolatkar, M., William, H. and Gadagkar, R. (1997). Ant fauna of the Indian Institute of Science Campus - Survey and some preliminary observations. The Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, 77, 133-140.
(112) Gadagkar, R. (1997). Social evolution - has nature ever rewound the tape ?Current Science, 72, 950-956.
(113) Arathi, H.S., Shakarad, M. and Gadagkar, R. (1997). Social organisation in experimentally assembled colonies of Ropalidiamarginata: comparison of introduced and natal wasps. InsectesSociaux, 44, 139-146.
(114) Arathi, H.S., Shakarad, M. and Gadagkar, R. (1997). Factors Affecting the Acceptance of Alien Conspecifics on Nests of the Primitively Eusocial Wasp, Ropalidiamarginata. (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Journal of Insect Behaviour, 10, 343-353.
(115) Sunil Kumar, M., Srihari, K.T., Nair, P., Varghese, T. and Gadagkar, R. (1997). Ant Species Richness at selected localities of Bangalore. Insect Environment, 3, 3-5.
(116) Gadagkar, R.(1997). The evolution of communication and the communication of evolution: The case of the honey bee queen pheromone. In: Orientation and Communication inArthropods (Ed.) Miriam Lehrer, Birkhauser Verlag, Basel, pp.375-395.
(117) Rastogi, N., Nair, P., Kolatkar, M. and Gadagkar, R. (1997). Foraging Strategies in the Ants Myrmicariabrunnea and Diacammaceylonense- Some Preliminary Observations. Entomon, 22(1), 79-81.
(118) Gadagkar, R. (1998). Biology in the 21^st century – back to stamp collection? Scampus – A bi-annual from IISc. SPRING 98, p.5.
(119) Gadagkar, R. (1998). The language of diversity. A Review of - The Evolution of Social Behavior in Insects and Arachnidsand A Review of - The Evolution of Mating Systems in Insects and Arachnids (Eds.) J.C.Choe&B.J.Crespi, Cambridge University Press (1997). Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 13, 122-123.
(120) Gadagkar, R. (1997). The evolution of caste polymorphism in social insects: genetic release followed by diversifying evolution. Journal of Genetics, 76, 167-179.
(121) Naug, D. and Gadagkar, R. (1998). The role of age in temporal polyethism in a primitively eusocial wasp. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 42, 37-47.
(122) Gadagkar, R. (1998). How to gain the benefits of sexual reproduction without paying the cost: a worm shows the way. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 13, 220-221.
(123) Gadagkar, R. (1998). Wherever they may roam – Discovering new bird and animal species just became easier. Down to Earth, 6 (21), p.25.
(124) Gadagkar, R. (1998). Introduction is forever – Introduced bee species may create problems for native species in India. Down toEarth, 6 (22), p.28.
(125) Gadagkar, R. (1998). Food fighters – Why do siblings fight with each other? A look at the science behind this universally common behaviour. Down to Earth, 7 (3), 24-25.
(126) Naug, D. and Gadagkar, R. (1998). Division of labor among a cohort of young individuals in a primitively eusocial wasp. InsectesSociaux, 45, 247-254.
(127) Gadagkar, R. (1998). Killer genes, green beards.... Down to Earth, 7, (13), 15-16.
(128) Gadagkar, R. (1998). Red ants with green beards. Journal ofBioscience, 23, 535-536.
(129) Gadagkar, R. (1999). Caenorhabditis and the cost of sex – Reply from R. Gadagkar. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 14, 33-34.
(130) Arathi, H.S. andGadagkar, R. (1998). Cooperative nest building and brood care by nestmates and non nestmates in Ropalidiamarginata: implications for the evolution of eusociality. Oecologia, 117, 295-299.
(131) Gadagkar, R. (1999). What is Life? – Reconsidered. A Review of – Origins of Life by Freeman Dyson, Cambridge University Press (1985). Resonance – journal of science education, 4 (2), 88-90.
(132) Gadagkar, R. (1999).Subterranean farmers – Ants invented agriculture some 50 million years before the humans. Down to Earth, 7 (21), 48-49.
(133) Sathees Chandra, B.C., Geetha, L., Abraham, V.A., Karanth, P., Thomas, K., Srinivasan, M.V., andGadagkar, R. (1998).Uniform discrimination of pattern orientation by honey bees. AnimalBehaviour, 56, 1391-1398.
(134) Naug, D. andGadagkar, R. (1999).Flexible division of labor mediated by social interactions in an insect colony – a simulation model.Journal of Theoretical Biology, 197, 123-133.
(135) Gadagkar, R. (2000). The True Origin of Agriculture: Credit Goes to the Ants. Resonance – journal of science education, 5 (2) 76-79.
(136) Gadagkar, R. (2000). Do our maternal and paternal genes pull us in different directions? Current Science, 78, 376-380.
(137) Gadagkar,R.(2000). The Origin and Resolution of Conflicts in Animal Societies – The Case of the Bees and the Birds. Resonance – journal of science education, 5 (4) 62-73.
(138) Gadagkar,R.(2000). Biology versus computers. Current Science, 78 (7) p.768.
(139) Gadagkar,R.(2000). ‘Ant’ics and antibiotics – A Review of - The Earth Dwellers – Adventures in the Land of Ants by E.Hoyt, Simon & Schuster, (1996). Downto Earth, 9 (3), 58-59.
(140) Gadagkar,R.(2001). Extracts fromthe book – The Social Biology of Ropalidiamarginata: Toward Understanding the Evolution of Eusociality, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(141) Gadagkar,R. (2000).Genomic Imprinting – Some Interesting Implications for the Evolution of Social Behaviour. Resonance – journal of science education, 5 (9) 58-68.
(142) Fisher, B.L., Malsch, A.K.F.,Gadagkar, R., Delabie, J.H.C., Vasconcelos, H.L. and Majer, J.D.(2000). Applying the ALL protocol: Selected Case Studies. In: Ants: Standard Methods for Measuring and Monitoring Biodiversity (Biology Diversity Handbook Series). (Ed.) D.Agosti, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, pp.207-214.
(143) Sumana, A. and Gadagkar, R. (2001). The structure of dominance hierarchies in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidiamarginata. Ethol. Ecol. &Evol., 13, 273-281.
(144) Gopinath,A., Gadagkar, R. and Rao, M.R.S. (2001). Identification of polymorphic microsatellite loci in the queenlessponerineantDiacammaceylonense. Molecular Ecology Notes, 1, 126-127.
(145) Gadagkar, R. (2001). Division of Labour and Organization of Work in the Primitively Eusocial Wasp Ropalidiamarginata. Proc. Indian natn. Sci. Acad. B67, 397-422.
(146) Gadagkar, R. (2000). Caring for our co-inhabitants – on the campus and beyond! Preface to the Special Issue on Biodiversity. J. Indian Institute of Science, November –December, Vol.80.
(147)  Kardile,S.P. and Gadagkar, R. (2002). Docile sitters and active fighters in paper wasps: a tale of two queens. Naturwissenschaften, 89, 176-179.
(148) Gadagkar,R. (2002).Two Cultures at the Wissenschaftskolleg. Wissenschaftskolleg, Jahrbuch 2000/2001, 68-75.
(149) Cuvillier-Hot, V., Gadagkar, R.,Peeters, C. and Cobb, M. (2002). Regulation of reproduction in a queenless ant: aggression, pheromones and reduction in conflict. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B., 269, 1295-1300.
(150) Agrahari,M. and Gadagkar, R. (2003). Juvenile hormone accelerates ovarian development and does not affect age polyethism in the primitively eusocial wasp, Ropalidiamarginata. Journal of Insect Physiology, 49, 217-222.
(151) Sumana,A. and Gadagkar,R. (2003). Ropalidiamarginata – a primitively eusocial wasp society headed by docile queens. Current Science, 84, 1464-1468.
(152) Gadagkar,R. (2003). WIKO - A Veritable Incubator for Competent Radicals. Wissenschaftskolleg, Jahrbuch 2001/2002, 79-86.
(153) Gadagkar, R. (2003). Is the Peacock merely beautiful or also honest? Current Science, 85 (7) 1012-1020.
(154) Karpagakunjaram,V., Nair, P., Varghese,T., Royappa,G., Kolatkar,M. and Gadagkar,R. (2003). Contributions to the biology of the queenlessponerine ant, Diacammaceylonense. J.Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 100 (2&3), 533-543.
(155) Kardile,S.P. andGadagkar,R. (2003).Regulation of worker activity in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidiacyathiformis. Behaviour, 140, 1219-1234.
(156) Gadagkar,R.(2004). Next time we hear a frog croak, let’s say thank you! Current Science, 86 (1), 15-16.
(157) Gadagkar,R. (2004). John Maynard Smith 6 January 1920 – 19 April 2004. Journal of Biosciences, 29 (2) 139-141.
(158) Agrahari,M. and Gadagkar, R. (2004). Hard working nurses rather than over-aged nurses permit Ropalidiamarginata to respond to the loss of young individuals. InsectesSociaux, 51, 306-307.
(159) Gadagkar,R.(2004). Genetically engineered monogamy in voles lends credence to the modus operandi of behavioural ecology. Journal of Genetics, 83 (2), 109-111.
(160) Gadagkar,R.(2004). Why do honey bee workers destroy each other’s eggs? Journal of Biosciences, 29 (3), 213-217.
(161) Ramaswamy,K., Peeters,C., Yuvana,S.P., Varghese,T., Pradeep,H.D., Dietemann,V., Vedham,K., Cobb,M. andGadagkar,R. (2004). Social mutilation in the Ponerine ant Diacamma: cues originate in the victims. InsectesSociaux, 51, 410-413.
(162) Gadagkar,R. (2004). Sex… Only if Really Necessary in a Feminine Monarchy. Science, 306, 1694-1695.
(163) Gadagkar,R.(2005).Donald Griffin Strove to give Animals their Due. Resonance – journal of science education, 10(2), 3-5.
(164) Agrahari,M. and Gadagkar,R. (2004). Division of labour and its regulation in a primitively eusocial wasp. In: Proceedings of the National Symposium on Frontier Areas of Entomological Research, Nov. 5-7 2003 (Eds.) Subrahmanyam,B., Ramamurthy,V.V. and Singh,V.S., Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, pp. 237-253.
(165) Gadagkar, R. (2005). Obituary – Ernst Mayr (1904-2005). Journal of Genetics, 84(1), 87-89.
(166) Gadagkar, R. (2004). Life, Mind and Consciousness. Papers read at a Seminar held at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata, India on 16, 17 and 18 January 2004, The Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata, pp.232-252.
(167) Gadagkar, R. (1997).Extracts from the book –Survival Strategies – Cooperation and Conflict in Animal Societies, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA).
(168) Gadagkar, R., Nair, P., Chandrashekara, K., Bhat, D.M. (2000). Ants species diversity in the Western Ghats, India. In: Sampling Ground-dwelling Ants: Case Studies from the World’s Rain Forests. (Eds.) D.Agosti, J.Majer, L.Alonso, and T.Schultz, Curtin University, School of Environmental Biology, Bulletin No.18, Perth, Australia, pp.19-30.
(169) Gadagkar,R.andChandrashekara,K. (2005). Behavioral Diversity and its Apportionment in a Primitively Eusocial Wasp. In: Insect Phenotypic Plasticity–Diversity of Responses (Eds.) T.N.Ananthakrishnan& Douglas Whitman, Science Publishers, Inc., Enfield, USA and Plymouth, UK, pp.107-124.
(170) Gadagkar, R. (2005). The Logic of Animal Conflict. Resonance – journal of science education, 10(11) p.5.
(171) Gadagkar, R. (2005).“Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution” – A Review of The Theory of Evolution by John Maynard Smith, Canto Edition, Cambridge University Press, (1993). Resonance – journal of science education,10 (11), 95-97.
(172) Bruyndonckx,N., Kardile,S.P. andGadagkar, R. (2006).Dominance behaviour and regulation of foraging in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidiamarginata (Lep.)(Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Behavioural Processes, 72, 100-103.
(173) Sen,R. and Gadagkar,R. (2006). Males of the social wasp Ropalidiamarginata can feed larvae, given an opportunity. Animal Behaviour, 71, 345-350.
(174) Gadagkar, R. (2006). Guest Editorial - Some Reflections on the Pursuit and Evaluation of Science. Current Science, 90 (4), 473-474.
(175) Deshpande,S.A., Sumana,A., Surbeck,M. and Gadagkar,R. (2006). Wasp who would be queen: a comparative study of two primitively eusocial species. Current Science, 91 (3), 332-336.
(176) Gadagkar, R. (2006).The Evolution of a Biologist in an Interdisciplinary Environment. In: 25 Jahre Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 1981-2006, (Eds.) Grimm,D. and Meyer-Kalkus,R., Berlin, Academie Verlag, pp.167-180.
(177) Gadagkar, R. (2006). Who First Invented Agriculture? In: Indian Institute of Science Pensioners’ Association, Bangalore, Silver Gubilee, 1980-2005. Souvenir, pp. 9-10.
(178) Kardile,S.P. andGadagkar,R. (2005). Observations on the Natural History and Behaviour of the Primitively Eusocial Wasp Ropalidiacyathiformis (Fab.) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Journal of Bombay Natural History Society, 102 (3), 265-273.
(179) Gadagkar, R. (2006). Subaltern Insect Societies – A Review of –The Other insect Societies by James T.Costa, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachussets& London (2006), Science, 314, p.1391.
(180) Lamba,S., Kazi,Y.C., Deshpande,S., Natesh,M., Bhadra,A. and Gadagkar,R. (2007). A possible novel function of dominance behaviour in queen-less colonies of the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidiamarginata. Behavioural Processes, 74, 351-356.
(181) Bhadra,A., Iyer,P.L., Sumana,A., Deshpande,S.A., Ghosh,S. and Gadagkar,R. (2007). How do workers of the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidiamarginata detect the presence of their queens? Journal of Theoretical Biology, 246, 574-582.
(182) Gadagkar, R. (2007). Foreword – The Evolution of Social Wasps by J.H.Hunt, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, pp.vii-ix.
(183) Gadagkar, R. (2007).Rats are nicer than we think, at least to each other. Journal of Biosciences, 32 (7), 1223-1225.
(184) Sumana,A., Deshpande, S.A., Bhadra,A. and Gadagkar, R. (2008). Workers of the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidiamarginata do not perceive their queen across a wire mesh partition. Journal of Ethology, 26, 207-212.
(185)* Gadagkar,R.(2008). Open-access more harm than good in developing world. Nature, 453, p.450.
(186) Gadagkar,R. (2008). Why I do not discourage my students from “wasting” their time with the “theatre”? MOITREE, The Bangla Theatre Festival in Bengaluru, 3-4.
(187) Lamba,S., Chandrasekhar,K. and Gadagkar,R. (2008). Signalling hunger through aggression - the regulation of foraging in a primitively eusocial wasp. Naturwissenschaften, 95, 677-680.
(188) Gadagkar,R.(2008).What’s happening at the Centre for Contemporary Studies and Why? Voices, No.6, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
(189) Gadagkar,R.(2008).Cooperation. In: Behavioural Ecology.Vol.1 of Encyclopedia of Ecology, (Eds.) S.E.Jorgensen and Fath,B.D., Elsevier Ltd., Oxford, pp.776-777.
(190) Bhadra,A. and Gadagkar,R. (2008). We know that the wasps ‘know’: cryptic successors to the queen in Ropalidiamarginata. Biology Letters, 4, 634-637.
(191) Gadagkar, R. (2008).Why are animals nice to each other? In:The Seventy Great Mysteries of the Natural World, (Ed.) M.J. Benton, Thames & Hudson Ltd., London, pp.225-228.
(192) Bhadra,A., Jordan,F., Sumana,A., Deshpande,S.A. and Gadagkar,R. (2009). A comparative social network analysis of wasp colonies and classrooms: linking network structure to functioning. Ecological Complexity, 6, 48-55.
(193) Klein,S. (2009) The Wasp Understander (Interview of Prof. Raghavendra Gadagkar), Die Zeit/Zeit Magazin, 21-23.
(194) Mossman,K. (2009). Profile of Raghavendra Gadagkar. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 106, 10404-10406.
(195) Gadagkar, R. (2009). Interrogating an Insect Society. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 106, 10407-10414.
(196) Gadagkar,R. (2009). Open access does more harm than good when based on a ‘pay to publish’ business model. Physiology News, 75, p.46.

(197) Johny,S.,Charkaborty,S. Gadagkar,R. and Nagaraju,J. (2009). Polymorphic microsatellite loci for primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidiamarginata. Molecular Ecology Resources, 9 (4) 1172-1175.
(198) Nagendra,H. and Gadagkar,R. (2009) (Guest Editors: Special Section – Science and Society). In this issue - Society and Science: InterdisciplinaryExchanges, Current Science, 97, 1513-1514.
(199) Gadagkar,R. (2009). A Review of - The Social Amoebae :The Biology of Cellular Slime Molds' by J.T.Bonner, Princeton University Press, Princeton (2009). Current Science, 97,1675-1676.
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 Gadagkar,R. (2009). Why are animals (and humans) nice to each other? In: Current Trends in Science – Platinum Jubilee Special, (Ed.) N. Mukunda, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, pp.191-197.
(201) Gadagkar,R. (2009). In Praise of Organismal Biology, Proceedings of the Platinum Jubilee of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, pp.37-41.
(202) Gadagkar, R. (2010) A Review of - The Lives of Ants by Laurent Keller and Élisabeth Gordon (Translated from French by James Grieve), Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009. Myrmecological News, 13, 29-30.
(203) Sen,R., Samudre,S., Shilpa,M.C., Tarak,R.C. and Gadagkar,R. (2010). Middle aged wasps mate through most of the year, without regard to body size, ovarian development and nestmateship: a laboratory study of the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidiamarginata. InsectesSociaux, 57,95-103.
(204) Bang,A., Deshpande,S., Sumana,A. and Gadagkar,R. (2010). Choosing an appropriate index to construct dominance hierarchies in animal societies: a comparison of three indices. Animal Behaviour, 79, 631-636.
(205) Sen,R. and Gadagkar,R. (2010). Natural history and behaviour of the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidiamarginata (Hymenoptera: Vespidae): a comparison of the two sexes. Journal of Natural History, 44, 959-968.
(206) Bhadra,A., Mitra,A., Deshpande,S.A., Chandrasekhar,K., Naik,D.G., Hefetz,A. and Gadagkar,R. (2010). Regulation of Reproduction in the Primitively Eusocial Wasp Ropalidiamarginata: on the trail of the queen pheromone. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 36, 424-431.
(207) Gadagkar,R.(2010). Foreword. A Concise Field Guide to Indian Insects & Arachnids by Meenakshi Venkataraman, Simova Education and Research, Madhavanagar, Bangalore, p. vi –vii.
(208) Shilpa,M.C., Sen, R. and Gadagkar, R. (2010). Nestmateship, body size and dominance do not influence mate choice in males and females: A laboratory study of a primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidiamarginata. Behavioural Processes, 85, 42-46.
(209) Karnik,N., Channaveerappa,H., Ranganath,H.A. and Gadagkar,R. (2010). Karyotype instability in the ponerine ant genus Diacamma. Journal of Genetics, 89 (2), 173-182.
(210) Gadagkar,R. (2009). Foreword – Satpada – Our World of Insects by Thomas,R. and Iyer,G., Rishi Valley Education Centre, Krishnamurti Foundation India, Andhra Pradesh, pp.v-vi.
(211) Gadagkar, R. (2010). Sociobiology in turmoil again. Current Science, 99 (8), 1036-1041.
(212) Gadagkar,R.(2010).CSIR Foundation Day Lecture : War and Peace: Conflict and Cooperation in an Insect Society. CSIR News, 60, 221-224.
(213) Gadagkar, R. (2010). Profile – In love with Ropalidiamarginata: 34 years, and still going strong. In: Social Behaviour – Genes, Ecology and Evolution (Eds.) Székely,T., Moore,A.J. and Komdeur,J., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp.85-87.
(214a) Gadagkar,R. (2010). Ant, Bee and Wasp Social Evolution. In: Encylopedia of Animal Behaviour, Volume 1, (Eds.) Breed,M. and Moore,J., Academic Press, Oxford, pp.73-81.
(214b) Gadagkar, R. (2017). Ant, Bee and Wasp Social Evolution. In: Reference Module in Life Sciences, Elsevier. doi:10.106/B978-0-12-809633-8.01024-4 (Revised version of serial no. 214a).
(214c) Gadagkar, R. (2019). Ant, Bee and Wasp Social Evolution. In: Encyclopedia of Animal Behaviour, 2^nd Edition, Vol.4, Elsevier, Academic press, pp.599-608. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-813251-7-90136-6 (Revised version of serial no. 214b).
(215) Mitra,A., Saha,P., Chaoulideer,M.E., Bhadra,A. and Gadagkar,R. (2011). Chemical communication in Ropalidiamarginata: are caste and colony signals conveyed through the same set of chemicals? Journal of Insect Physiology, 57, 280-284.
(216) Mitra,A. and Gadagkar,R. (2011). Can Dufour’s gland compounds honestly signal fertility in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidiamarginata? Naturwissenschaften, 98, 157-161.
(217) Gadagkar,R. (2010). War and Peace: Conflict and Cooperation in a Tropical Insect Society. In: Common Knowledge: The Challenge of Transdisciplinarity (Eds.) Moira Cockell, Jérôme Billotte, Frédéric Darbellay, and Francis Waldvogel, EPFL Press, pp. 75-96.
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 Gadagkar, R. (2011). What can we learn from insect societies? In: Nature and Culture (Eds.) R.Narasimha and S.Menon), Centre for Studies in Civilizations (CSC) and Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture (PHSPC), Volume XIV, Part 1, New Delhi, pp.357-365.
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 Gadagkar, R. (2019).What Can We Learn from Insect Societies? In: Social Science at the Crossroads, Volume 13 of the IIS-series, (Eds.) Randeria, S. and Wittrock, B. in honor of Shmuel N. Eisenstadt and Yehuda Elkana, Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, pp.17-26. doi.10.1163/9789004385122_003
(219) Gadagkar, R. (2011).The birth of ant genomics. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci, USA,108, 5477-5478.https://www.pnas.org/content/108/14/5477
(220) Gadagkar,R. (2011). Science as a hobby: how and why I came to study the social life of an Indian Primitively eusocial wasp. Current Science, 100, 845-858.
(221) Sen,R. and Gadagkar,R. (2011). Behavioural and morphological dimorphism of the sexes: an account of two primitively eusocial wasps. Journal of Natural History, 45, 1295-1309.
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(222) Gadagkar,R. (2011). Altruistic Wasps? Science, 333, 833-834. doi:10.1126/science.1210420
(223) Gadagkar,R. (2011). Reproduction: the almost forgotten currency of fitness. Current Science, 101, 725-726.https://www.jstor.org/stable/24078654
(224) Saha,P., Balasubramaniam,K.N., Kalyani,J.N., Supriya,K., Padmanabhan,A. andGadagkar, R. (2012).Clinging to royalty: Ropalidiamarginata queens can employ both pheromone and aggression. Insect Soc., 59,41-44.
(225). Shilpa,M.C., Sen,R., Samudre,S. andGadagkar,R. (2012). Males, but not females, mate with multiple partners: a laboratory study of a primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidiamarginata.Insect Soc., 59,61-65.
(226). Mitra,A. and Gadagkar,R. (2012). Queen signal should be honest to be involved in maintenance of eusociality: chemical correlates of fertility in Ropalidiamarginata. InsectesSociaux, 59, 251-255.
(227). Mitra,A. and Gadagkar,R. (2012). Road to Royalty – Transition of Potential Queen to Queen in the Primitively Eusocial Wasp Ropalidiamarginata. Ethology, 118, 694-702.
(228). Mitra,A. and Gadagkar,R. (2012). Queens and Workers of the Primitively Eusocial Wasp Ropalidiamarginata do not Differ in Their Dufour’s Gland Morphology. Sociobiology, 59 (3), 875-884.
(229). Kaube, J. (2011). The Ten Commandments of Successful Research on
Wasps - and All Other Types of Research (Interview of Prof. Raghavendra Gadagkar), Köpfe und Ideen, Wissenschaftskollegzu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study), Berlin, Germany, pp.10-15.
(230). Gadagkar, R.(2012).The Luxury of Introspection. In: Über das Kolleghinaus - Joachim Nettelbeck, dem Sekretär des Wissenschaftskollegs 1981 bis 2012 (Beyond the college - Joachim Nettelbeck, the Secretary of the Wissenschaftskollegs from 1981-2012) (Eds.) Diawara, M.; Günther, K., and Meyer-Kalkus, R., Wissenschaftskollegzu Berlin, Germany, pp. 152-157.
(231). Bang,A. and Gadagkar,R. (2012). Reproductive queue without overt conflict in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidiamarginata. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 109, 14494-14499.https://www.pnas.org/content/109/36/14494
(232). Shukla,S., Chandran,S. and Gadagkar,R. (2013). Ovarian developmental variation in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidiamarginata suggests a gateway to worker ontogeny and the evolution of sociality. Journal of Experimental Biology, 216, 181-187.jeb.biologists.org/content/216/2/181
(233). Nandi,A.K., Bhadra,A., Sumana,A., Deshpande,S.A. and Gadagkar,R. (2013). The Evolution of Complexity in Social Organization – A Model Using Dominance-Subordinate Behavior in Two Social Wasp Species. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 327, 34-44.

(234). Shukla,S., Shilpa,M.C. and Gadagkar,R. (2013). Virgin wasps develop ovaries on par with mated females, but lay fewer eggs. InsectesSociaux, 60, 345-350.
(235).  Mitra,R., Ramachandran,A. and Gadagkar,R. (2014). Nestmate discrimination in the social wasp Ropalidiamarginata: chemical cues and chemosensory mechanisms. Animal Behaviour, 88, 113-124.
(236). Mitra,A. and Gadagkar,R. (2014). The Dufour’s gland and cuticle in the social wasp Ropalidiamarginata contain the same hydrocarbons in similar proportions. Journal of Insect Science, 14 (9). http://www.insectscience.org/14.9
(237). Gadagkar,R. (2014). A Review of – Randomness in Evolution by J.T.Bonner, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 2013. Current Science, 106, 9, 1312-1313.
(238). Shukla,S., Pareek,V. andGadagkar,R. (2014). Ovarian development in a primitively eusocial wasp: Social interactions affect behaviourally dominant and subordinate wasps in opposite directions relative to solitary females. Behavioural Processes, 106, 22-26.
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(239). Gadagkar,R. (2014). Role of Science, Technology and Innovation in Ensuring Sustainable Inclusive Development. Proc. Indian Natn. Sci. Acad. 80, 181-183.
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(240).  Gadagkar,R. (2015) Cooperation. In: Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences,Elsevier,(ed.)Reedijk,J., Waltham, MA, pp.1-2.
(241). Roughgarden,J., Adkins-Regan,E., Akcay,E., Crawford,J.C., Gadagkar,R.,Griffith,S.C., Hinde,C.A., Hoquet,T., O’Connor,C., Prokop,Z.M., Prum,R.O., Shafir,S., Snow,S.S., Taylor,D., VanCleve,J. and Weisberg,M. (2015). Sexual Selection Studies: A NESCent Catalyst Meeting. PeerjPrePrints, 3, e680v3. doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.680v3
(242). Gadagkar,R. (2015). Solve local problems. Nature, 521, p.153.
(243). Gadagkar,R. (2015). How Should Biologists Engage With Controversial Mathematical Theory? Current Science, 108, 1869-1873.
(244). Mitra,A., Nettimi,R.P., Ramachandran,A., Saha,P. and Gadagkar,R. (2015). Males and females of the social wasp Ropalidiamarginata do not differ in their cuticular hydrocarbon profiles and do not seem to use any long-distance volatile mate attraction cues. InsectesSociaux, 62, 281-289.
(245). Mandal,S. andGadagkar,R. (2015). Homing abilities of the tropical primitively eusocial paper wasp Ropalidiamarginata. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 201, 795-802. doi:10.1007/s00359-015-1019-2
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(246). Gadagkar,R. (2015). The Family System of a Social Wasp. In: The Family Emotional System – An Integrative Concept for theory, Science and Practice. (Eds.) Noone,R.J. and Papero,D.V, Lexington Books, Boulder, pp.161-183.
(247). Gadagkar,R. (2015). Referee Report For: Competition over guarding in the Arabian babbler (Turdoidessquamiceps), a cooperative breeder (version 1; referees: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations). F1000Research, 4, 618. doi:10.5256/f1000research.7238.r11476
(248).  Gadagkar,R. (2016). Evolution of social behaviour in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidiamarginata: do we need to look beyond kin selection? Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. 371, 1-8.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0094
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4760195/
(249). Bang, A. and Gadagkar,R. (2016). Winner-loser effects in a eusocial wasp. InsectesSociaux, 63, 349-352. doi:10.1007/s00040-015-0455-x.
(250). Olejarz,J.W., Allen,B., Veller,C., Gadagkar,R. and Nowak,M.A. (2016). Evolution of Worker Policing. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 399,103-116. doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2016.03.001
https://ped.fas.harvard.edu/files/ped/files/1-s2.0-s0022519316001417-main.pdf
(251). Gadagkar, R. and Gopinathan, K.P. (1978). Inhibition of DNA injection from mycobacteriophage I3 by Tween-80. Virology, 91, 487-488.
(252). Gopinathan, K.P., Saroja, D., Gadagkar, R. and Ramakrishnan, T. (1978). Control of lysogeny in mycobacteria. In: Genetics of Actinomycetales. (Eds.) E.Freerksen, I.Tarnok and J.H.Thumim. Gustav, Fisher Verlag, pp.237– 242.
(253). Gadagkar, R. and Gupta, G. (1979). A nick free solution to the DNA winding problem - Round-up of research, Science Today, 13 (15), December, p.33.
(254). Gadagkar, R. (1980). Seminar on evolution of social behaviour. Journal of Scientific Industrial Research, 39, 298-301.
(255). Gadagkar, R. and Gopinathan, K.P. (1980). Bacteriophage burst size during multiple infections. Journal of Biosciences, 2, 253-259. doi:10.1007/BF02703251
(256). Gadagkar, R. and Gopinathan, K.P. (1980). Growth of Mycobacterium smegmatis in minimal and complete media. Journal of Biosciences, 2, 337-348.doi:10.1007/BF02716867
(257). Gadagkar, R.,Nanjundiah, V., Joshi, N.V. and Sharat Chandra, H. (1981). Measurement of the ratio of the number of X chromosomes to sets of autosomes in Drosophila melanogaster. Current Science, 50, 805-807.
(258). Gadagkar, R.,Gadgil, M., and Mahabal, A.S. (1982). Observations on population ecology and sociobiology of the paper wasp Ropalidiamarginata (Lep.) (Family:Vespidae). Proceedings of the Symposium on Ecology and Animal Population, Zoological Survey of India, pp. 49-61.
(259). Gadagkar, R., Nanjundiah, V., Joshi, N.V. and Sharat Chandra, H. (1982). Dosage compensation and sex determination in Drosophila : Mechanism of measurement of the X/A ratio. Journal of Biosciences, 4, 377-390. doi:10.1007/BF02702750
(260). Gadagkar, R. (2001). Bill Hamilton – The Greatest Darwinian Since Darwin. Resonance – journal of science Education, April, 4-5.

(261). Gadagkar,R. (2006). Exporting Metaphors, Concepts and Methods from the Natural Sciences to the Social Sciences and vice versa. In: Understanding Change – Models, Methodologies, and Metaphors (Eds.) Wimmer,A. and Kossler,R., Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp.187-195. doi:10.1007/978-0-230-52464-4_13
(262). Gadagkar,R. and Nowotny,H. (2006). KonfliktoderKooperation. Strategientierischer und menschlicherGemeinschaften. In: Thema: Warum Krieg? Texte und ProtokollezumBriefwechsel Albert Einstein – Sigmund Freud, von Schlebrügge, J. (Ed.) Bruno Kriesky Forum fur internationalen Dialog, pp.160-170.
(263). Gadagkar,R. (2011). War and Peace - Conflict & Cooperation in an Insect Society. Science Reporter, January, 8-12.
(264). McBean, G., Reddy, D., Lee, Y. T.,Jinghai, L., Clegg, M., Black, D.,Erazmus, B., Ball, J.,Gadagkar, R., Moreau, N., Tatsumi, K., de León, M.,Buckeridge, J.; Altan, O. and de la Rey, C. (2015). International Council for Science Responds. Nature; 517, p.145.
(265). Ramaswamy, K. (2015).The Centre for Contemporary Studies [Interview with Prof. Raghavendra Gadagkar]. Connect, 2(1),15-19.
(266). Gadagkar, R. (2016). The ‘pay-to-publish’ model should be abolished. ​Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science,1-2.
doi:10.1098/rsnr.2016.0039.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rsnr.2016.0039
(267). Gadagkar, R. (2016). A Review of - The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird’s Egg by Tim Birkhead, Bloomsbury, USA, 2016. Proc. Indian Natn. Sci. Acad., 82,1323-1324.
https://www.insa.nic.in/writereaddata/UpLoadedFiles/PINSA/2016_Art95.pdf
(268). Gadagkar, R. (2017). The Universe – Which Tools to Understand It. Proc. Indian Natn.Sci. Acad., 83, 5-7. doi:10.16943/ptinsa/2016/48860
https://www.insa.nic.in/writereaddata/UpLoadedFiles/PINSA/2016_Art109.pdf
(269). Gadagkar, R.(2016). Die Zukunftkönnteunsüberraschen (The future could surprise us). Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, NR 280, (November 30).
(270). Peso, M. (2017). Interview with a social insect scientist :Raghavendra Gadagkar.Insectessociaux Blog.
https://insectessociaux.com/2017/07/20/interview-with-a-social-insect-scientist:Raghavendra Gadagkar
(271a) Sridhar, H. and Gadagkar, R. (2017). Standing conventional wisdom on its head – an interview with Raghavendra Gadagkar (Full interview). Ecology Students Society, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science.
URL:https://cesess.wordpress.com/2017/07/13/standing-conventional-wisdom-on-its-head-a-conversation-with-raghavendra-gadagkar-full-interview/
(271b) Sridhar, H. and Gadagkar, R.(2017). Standing conventional wisdom on its head – Conversation with Prof. Raghavendra Gadagkar [Excerpt].
URL:https://indiabioscience.org/columns/conversations/standing-conventional-wisdom-on-its-head.
(271c) Sridhar, H. and Gadagkar, R. (2018). Standing conventional wisdom on its head: an interview with Raghavendra Gadagkar. Dialogue – Science, Scientists, and Society. 1 (1). doi:10.29195/DSSS.01.01.0004
(272a) Gadagkar, R. (2016). Why does out society lack scientific temper and what can scientists do about it? Journal of Scientific Temper, 4 (1 & 2), 57-60.
(272b) Gadagkar, R. (2018). Why does our society lack scientific temper and what can scientists do about it? Confluence, Indian Academy of Sciences, 2 January.
(originally published in Journal of Scientific Temper, 2016, 4, 57-60).
http://confluence.ias.ac.in/why-does-our-society-lack-scientific-temper-and-what-can-scientists-do-about-it/
(273). Supriya, D. G. (2017). Professor Raghavendra Gadagkar: The world at his doorstep. NRI Pulse.
http://www.nripulse.com/professor-raghavendra-gadagkar-the-world-at-his-doorstep/.
(274).  Gadagkar, R.(2017). Invited as a SynTalk. #TKAK (The Kith And Kin, June 24, 2017) [Web Page].
https://syntalk.wordpress.com/episodes/turn-three/tkak/
(275).  Gadagkar, R. and Niranjana, T. (2017). The Integrated Science Education Experiment - Centre for Contemporary Studies (CCS)-Indian Institute of Science and Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), 2006-14. - A Conversation between Raghavendra Gadagkar and Tejaswini Niranjana. In: Breaking the Silo - Integrated Science Education in India, (Eds.)Dhar, A., Niranjana, T. and Sridhar, K., Bengaluru: Orient BlackSwan, pp.38-64.
(276). Gadagkar, R. (2016). Foreword -Merging the spirit of Art and Science. In: Arting Science (Ed.) Bitasta Das, IISc Press, pp.7-8.
(277). Gadagkar, R. (2017). The evolution of culture (or the lack thereof): mapping the conceptual space. J. Genetics, 96, 513-516.
doi:10.1007/s12041-017-0795-6
https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/jgen/096/03/0513-0516
(278). Gadagkar, R. (2017). Indian National Science Academy: Some Challenges Ahead. Proc. Indian Natn. Sci. Acad., 83, 1-4.
doi:10.16943/ptinsa/2017/41291
https://www.insa.nic.in/writereaddata/UpLoadedFiles/PINSA/2017_Art06.pdf

(279). Gadagkar, R. (2017). The World (of education, research and business) Is No Longer What We Imagined - A Review of - Whiplash - How to Survive Our Faster Future by J. Ito and J. Howe, Grand Central Publishing, New York (2016). Proc. Indian Natn. Sci. Acad., 83, 717-719.
https://insa.nic.in/writereaddata/UpLoadedFiles/PINSA/2017_Art32.pdf
(280). Unnikrishnan, S. and Gadagkar, R. (2017). Dominance based reproductive queue in the primitively eusocial wasp, Ropalidiacyathiformis. InsectesSociaux,64,495-503.doi:10.1007/s00040-017-0568-5
(281). Mandal, S., Brahma, A. and Gadagkar, R. (2017). Homing in a tropical social wasp: role of spatial familiarity, motivation and age. J. Comp. Physiol. A. 203, 915-927. doi:10.1007/s00359-017-1202-8
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28752253
(282). Gadagkar,R. (2017). A Tale of Science, Passion and Politics. A Review of – How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog) – Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution by L.A. Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London (2017). Proc. Indian Natn. Sci. Acad. 83, 973-975. doi:10.16943/ptinsa/2017/49222
(283).  Gadagkar, R. (2017). Choosing a New Queen: Consensus without Conflict in a Social Wasp Colony. In: Landscapes of Collectivity in the Life Sciences. (Eds.) S.B. Gissis, E. Lamm and A.Shavit, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp.67-75.
(284). Brahma, A., Mandal, S. and Gadagkar, R. (2018).Emergence of cooperation and division of labor in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidiamarginata. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 115, 756-761.
https://www.pnas.org/content/115/4/756
(285).  Chakraborty, S., Shukla, S. P., Arunkumar, K.P., Nagaraju, J. and Gadagkar, R. (2018). Genetic relatedness does not predict the queen’s successors in the primitively eusocial wasp, Ropalidiamarginata. Journal of Genetics, 97, 429-438.doi.org/10.1007/s12041-018-0926-8.
https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/jgen/097/02/0429-0438
(286). Saha, P., Nandi, A.K., Unnikrishnan, S., Shilpa, M. C., Shukla, S., Mandal, S., Mitra, A. and Gadagkar, R. (2018). A route to direct fitness: natural and experimentally induced queen succession in the tropical primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidiamarginata. Journal of Insect Behavior, 31, 54-65.
(287). Brahma, A., Mandal, S. and Gadagkar, R. (2018). Current indirect fitness and future direct fitness are not incompatible. Biology Letters. 20170592. doi.org/10/1098/rsbl.2017.0592
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0592
(288).  Chakraborty, S., Bhadra, A., Nandi, A. K., Annagiri, S., Deshpande, S., Lamba, S., Bang, A. and Gadagkar, R. (2018). Evolution of reproductive dominance in animal societies – lessons from a social wasp. Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy, 84 (3), 695-705.
https://www.insa.nic.in/writereaddata/UpLoadedFiles/PINSA/2018_Art11.pdf\
(289). Gadagkar, R. (2018). Let’s Create Budgetary Literacy. Confluence – Indian Academy of Sciences. http://confluence.ias.ac.in/lets-create-budgetary-literacy/
(290). Gadagkar, R.(2018). Evaluate the Evaluations! Dialogue - Science, Scientists, and Society,1(1).
http://dialogue.ias.ac.in/article/9123/evaluate-the-evaluations
http://doi:10.29195/DSSS.01.01.0005
(291). Taylor, H. (Presenter). 2018. Is birdsong music? The Science Show, Australian Broadcasting Corporation Radio. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/is-birdsong-music/9416572; Presenter: Hollis Taylor; Producer: David Fisher; Sound Engineer: Russell Stapleton; Guests: Tim Low, OferTchernichovski, Constance Scharff, Richard Prum, Ani Patel, OnurGüntürkün, Philip Kitcher, RaghavendraGadagkar, Bernie Krause
(292). Gadagkar, R. (1996). Evolution of an insect society - 1. The ideas. The Insectarium, 33 (3), 4-9. (in Japanese)
(293). Gadagkar, R. (2018). Let's Empower People with The Method of Science and Not Merely Its Conclusions.
http://confluence.ias.ac.in/lets-empower-people-with-the-method-of-science-and-not-merely-its-conclusions/
(294).  Chakravarthy, A.K., Anand, S.K., Das, A., Bhaskar, D.K., Maddikery, G.V., Nagaraj, H., Bhat, H., Karnatak, H.C., Chandrashekar, I., Alfred, J.R.B., Haritsa, J.R., Gopinath, K., Gururaja, K.V., Shankar, K., Shyamal, L., Krishna, M.B., Gadgil, M., Munshi, M., Irfanullah, M., Menon, N.R., Murthy, N., Krishnan, P.N., Rao, P.R.S., Roy, P.S., Subbarao, P., Keshavachandran, R., Raj, R.S., Gadagkar, R., Rekha, Swarup, R., Karthikeyan, S., Krishnan, S., Sharma, S., Eapen, S.J., Singh, S., Bhat, S., Shivanna, Srinidhi, S., Arunachalam, S.S., Suja, Sarin, S., Rajashekar, T.B., Ramachandra, T.V., Sivan, V.V., Gupta, V.K., Ramamurthy, V.V., Vasu, G.J., Barve, V., Edlabadkar, V. and Chavan, V. (2004) On networking Indian biodiversity databases.BD DB Networking workshop, March 23-24, 1-13.
(295). Gadagkar, R.(1996). Evolution of an insect society - 2. The data. The Insectarium, 33(4),18-23. (in Japanese).
(296). Gadagkar, R. (1989). In Praise of Birds. Deccan Herald, Bangalore, August 20.
(297). Gadagkar, R. (2018). Social Evolution: Does Collapsing Taxonomic Boundaries Produce a Synthetic Theory? A Review ofComparative Social Evolution, (Eds.) D. R. Rubenstein and P. Abbot, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York (2017).The Quarterly Review of Biology, 93 (2), 121-125.http://doi:10.1086/698022
(298). Gadagkar, R. (2018). Entomological research in India: Basic and applied research remain disconnected, Science Communication Plenary, 2018 International Branch Virtual Symposium, Entomological Society of America. https://esa.confex.com/esa/2018intl/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/130240
(299). Gadagkar, R. (2018). Where Humans are Animals and Animals are Human. A Review of – My Family and Other Animals, Gerald Malcolm Durrell (1925-1995),Puffin Books, (2016). [First published by in Great Briton by Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956]. Resonance, 23(5),609-612.
(300) Miller,S.E., Bluher,S.E., Bell,E., Cini,A., da Silva,R.C., de Souza,A.R., Gandia,K.M., Jandt,J., Loope,K., Prato,A., Pruitt,J.N., Rankin,D., Rankin,E., Southon,R.J., Uy,F.M.K., Weiner,S., Wright,C.M., Downing,H., Gadagkar,R., Lorenzi,M.C., Rusina,L., Sumner,S., Tibbetts,E.A., Toth,A., Sheehan,M.J. (2018). WASPnest: A worldwide assessment of social Polistine nesting behavior. Ecology, 99 (10), p.2405.
 (301) Gadagkar, R. (2018). What Do Ethologists Wish to Know ?Resonance, 23 (8), 841-843.
https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/reso/023/08/0841-0843
(302) Gadagkar, R. (2018). How to Design Experiments in Animal Behaviour. 1. How Wasps Find Their Nests. Resonance, 23 (8), 871-884.
https://www.ias.ac.in/describe/article/reso/023/08/0871-0884
 (303) Gadagkar, R. (2018). How to Design Experiments in Animal Behaviour. 2. Do Bees Have Colour Vision? Resonance, 23 (10), 1101-1106.
https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/reso/023/10/1101-1116
 (304). Gadagkar, R. (2018). How to Design Experiments in Animal Behaviour. 3. How do Ants Find the Shortest Path? Resonance, 23 (11), 1243-1257.
https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/reso/023/11/1243-1257
(305) Jain, A. and Gadagkar, R. (2019). The secret society of the paper wasp (Q&A). Fountain Ink, 8 (6), 88-105.
https://fountainink.in/qna/the-secret-society-of-the-paper-wasp
 (306) Brahma, A., Mandal, S. and Gadagkar, R. (2019). To leave or to stay: direct fitness through natural nest foundation in a primitively eusocial wasp. InsectesSociaux, 66, 335-342.doi:10.10007/s00040-019-00702-2
https://springeropen.altmetric.com/details/59591909
(307) Gadagkar,R.(2019). How to Design Experiments in Animal Behaviour: 4. How Do Bees Estimate the Distance Flown? Resonance 24 (7), 741-753. doi:10.1007/s12045-019-0836-y
(308) Gadagkar,R.(2019). Democratizing Science and Redefining Education – A Review of -Cities and Canopies: Trees in Indian Cities by H. Nagendra and S. Mundoli, Penguin-Viking (2019). Resonance, 24 (7), 771-774.
doi: 10.1007/s12045-019-0839-8
(309) Gadagkar,R.(2019). How to Design Experiments in Animal Behaviour: 5. How Do Ants Estimate the Distance Walked? Resonance 24 (8),875-889. doi:10.1007/s12045-019-0850-0
(310) Gadagkar, R., Gordon, D, Keller, L., Michod, R., Queller, D., Robinson, G.E., Strassmann, J.E. and West-Eberhard, M.J. (2019). Insights and opportunities in insect social behavior. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 34, ix-xx. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2019.08.009
(311) Sharma, N. and Gadagkar, R. (2019). A place for everything and everything in its place: spatial organization of individuals on nests of the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidiamarginata. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B. 286, 20191212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1212
(312)  Gadagkar,R.(2019). How to Design Experiments in Animal Behaviour: 6. Why are Male Wasps Lazy?Resonance 24 (9),995-1014. http://doi:10.1007/s12045-019-0866-5
(313)  Gadagkar, R. (2019). How to Design Experiments in Animal Behaviour: 7. How Do Wasps Decide Who Would Be the Queen? Part 1. Resonance, 24 (10),1087-1107. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-019-0878-1
(314)  Gadagkar, R. (2021). Ropalidia. In: Encyclopedia of Social Insects. (Ed.) C.K. Starr, Springer Nature India Private Limited, pp.1-11.
(315) Gadagkar, R. (2019). How to Design Experiments in Animal Behaviour: 8. How Do Wasps Decide Who Would Be the Queen? Part 2. Resonance, 24 (11),1287-1310. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-019-0895-0
(316)  Gadagkar, R. (2019). How to Design Experiments in Animal Behaviour: 9. Why Do Wasps Fight? Part 1. Resonance– Journal of Science Education, 24 (12), 1413-1426. https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/reso/024/12/1413-1426
(317a)  Gadagkar, R. (2019). Half a Century of Workship at “Tata’s Temple of Science”. Connect – Indian Institute of Science, 6(4), 16-19.
https://connect.iisc.ac.in/2019/12/half-a-century-of-workship-at-tatas-temple-of-science/
(317b) Gadagkar, R. (2020). Half a Century of Workship at “Tata’s Temple of Science”. Resonance – journal of science education, 25 (5), 727-733. (Reproduced with permission from Connect, Sl.No. 317)
https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/reso/025/05/0727-0733
(317c)
 Gadagkar, R. (2020). Half a Century of Worship at “Tata’s Temple of Science”.
Kannada version: R. Sharma.
https://www.ejnana.com/variety/worship-at-temple-of-science/
(318) Gadagkar,R. (2020). How to Design Experiments in Animal Behaviour: 10. Why Do Wasps Fight? Part 2. Resonance– Journal of Science Education, 25(1). 111-131. https://doi.org/10/1007/s12045-019-0925-y
(319) Gadagkar, R. (2020). Cooperation in Social Insects. In: Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. (Eds.) Shackelford, T. K. and Weekes-Shackelford, V. A., Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp.1-9.
(320)
 Gadagkar, R. (2020). How to Design Experiments in Animal Behaviour: 11. Fighting Fish – Does Experience Matter? Resonance – Journal of Science Education, 25(2). 269-296. https://doi.org/10/1007/s12045-020-0942-x
(321) Gadagkar, R. (2020). A Review of - Why Trust Science? by Naomi Oreskes.
Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford (2019). Current Science, 118 (9), 1464-1466. https://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/118/09/1464.pdf
(322) Gadagkar, R. (2020). How to Design Experiments in Animal Behaviour 12. Male Frogs Sing for Sex but Why Don’t They Do Their Best? Resonance - journal of science education, 25(6), 817-838. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-020-0998-7 https://www.ias.ac.in/describe/article/reso/025/06/0817-0838
(323) Unnikrishnan, S. and Gadagkar, R. (2020). The effect of age on non-reproductive division of labour in the tropical primitively eusocial wasp, Ropalidiacyathiformis. Int.J. Dev. Biol., 64, 257-263 .
http://dx.doi.org/10.1387/ijdb.190213su
(324)  Gadagkar, R. (2020). How to Design Experiments in Animal Behaviour 13. Harmless Snakes Mimic Venomous Snakes to Avoid Predation, But Why Don’t They Do Their Best? Resonance - journal of science education, 25(7), 1015-1044. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-020-1016-9 https://www.ias.ac.in/describe/article/reso/025/07/1015-1044
(325) Gadagkar, R.(2020). More Fun Than Fun: A Story of Stephen Fry, Honey Bees, Greek Myths - and Science. The Wire Science, 16 September.
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/more-fun-than-fun-science-stories-raghavendra-gadagkar/
Kannada version: Sharma, K. and Gadagkar, R.
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/raghavendra-gadagkar-column-kannada-podcast-kollegala-sharma-janasuddi/
(326) Gadagkar, R. (2021). Foreword. In: Encyclopedia of Social Insects. (Ed.)
C.K. Starr, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. pp.1-8.
(327)  Gadagkar, R. (2020). How to Design Experiments in Animal Behaviour 14. Cuckoos Lay Their Eggs in Others' Nests, But Why Do the Hosts Get Fooled?Resonance - journal of science education, 25(10), 1419-1455. (doi: 10.1007/s12045-020-1061-4)
https://www.ias.ac.in/describe/article/reso/025/10/1419-1455
(328)  Gadagkar, R.(2020). More Fun Than Fun: Dung Beetles, the Milky Way and the Marvels of Animal Navigation. The Wire Science, 30 September.
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/janaarime-podcast-dung-beetles-navigation-raghavendra-gadagkar/
(329)  Gadagkar, R.(2020). More Fun Than Fun: Where the Worlds of Science and Magic Collide.The Wire Science, 14 October.https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/magic-fmri-response-bees-wasps-deception-ethology/
Kannada version: Gadagkar,R.,Sharma,K. andManjunatha,J.R.
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/podcast-in-kannada-where-the- worlds-of-science-and-magic-collide/
(330)  Gadagkar, R. (2020). More Fun Than Fun: The Smart Animals That Helped Scientists Demystify Altruism. The Wire Science, 28 October
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/altruism-animal-kingdom-reciproc...
Kannada version :Gadagkar,R.,Sharma,K. andManjunatha,J.R.
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/podcast-in-kannada-the-smart-animals-that-helped-scientists-demystify-altruism/
(331)  Gadagkar, R. (2020). Science can be more fun than fun. i wonder…. Rediscovering School Science (Azim Premji University), Issue 5, October 2020, 83-84.https://azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/SitePages/resources-iwonder-issue-5.aspx
(332)  Gadagkar, R.(2020). More Fun Than Fun: An Ode To Grandmothers and TheirGrandmotherly Wisdom. The Wire Science, 11 November.
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/evolution-menopause-reproduction-grandmother-hypothesis-growing-old/
Kannada version: Gadagkar,R.,Sharma,K. andManjunatha,J.R.
https://anchor.fm/kollegala/episodes/4-9-eme615/a-a3r71gn
(333)  Gadagkar, R.(2020). More Fun Than Fun: Experienced Ants Lead and Teach, Naļve Ants Follow and Learn. The Wire Science. 25 November.
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/ants-intelligence-tandem-running-gamergate-sumana-annagiri-teaching-opportunities/
Kannada version:Gadagkar, Sharma and Manjunatha.
https://anchor.fm/kollegala/embed/episodes/4-11-en19p7/a-a3v7fau;
(334)  Gadagkar, R. (2020). How to Design Experiments in Animal Behaviour 15. Why do Parents and Offspring Quarrel? Resonance - journal of science education, 25(11), 1595-1629. doi: 10.1007/s12045-020-1061-4 https://www.ias.ac.in/describe/article/reso/025/11/1595-1629
(335)  Gadagkar, R.(2020). More Fun Than Fun: In the Wild, There's More Than One Way to Find a Mate.The Wire Science. 9 December.
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/alternative-reproductive-tactics-madhav-gadgil-ces-iisc-tree-crickets-courtship-predation-risk/
(336)  Gadagkar, R. (2020). More Fun Than Fun: The Marvelous World of Outsourcing Parenting Duties. The Wire Science, 23 December.https://science.thewire.in/environment/cuckoos-black-headed-duck-outsource-parenting-obligate-brood-parasite-altricial-precocial-climate-change/
Kannada version:Gadagkar, Sharma and Manjunatha.
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/podcast-in-kannada-the-marvellous-world-of-outsourcing-parenting-duties/
(337) Gadagkar, R. (2021). More Fun Than Fun: Battles of the Sexes Can Now Be Made to Order - or Vanish. The Wire Science, 6 January. https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/sexual-reproduction-natural-selection-competition-ng-prasad-raghavendra-gadagkar/
(338) Gadagkar, R. (2021). How to Design Experiments in Animal Behaviour 16. Cutting-Edge Research at Trifling Cost.Resonance - journal of science education, 26(1), 105-126. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-020-1108-6
(339) Unnikrishnan, S. and Gadagkar, R. (2021). Dominance behaviour and division of labour in the tropical primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidiacyathiformis, InsectesSociaux,68, 123-132.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-020-00803-3
(340) Gadagkar, R. (2021). More Fun Than Fun: How Do Animals Recognise their Kin?.The Wire Science. 20 January. https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/kin-selection-cooperation-haldane-nestmates-experiment-biodiversity/
(341) Gadagkar, R. (2021). More Fun Than Fun: More Fun Than Fun: Why Do Animals SportBright Colours?The Wire Science. 3 February. https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/animals-bright-colours-evolutionary-biology-batesian-mimicry-uropeltidae-handling-times/
(342) Gadagkar, R. (2021). Professor SM Chitre – A Tribute.Khagol Vishwa. Prof. Chitre Special, p.4
(343) Gadagkar, R. (2021). More Fun Than Fun: What Can We Learn From Insect Societies. The Wire Science. 17 February. https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/insect-societies-collective-intelligence-democratic-decision-making-thomas-seeley/
(344) Gadagkar, R. (2021). More Fun Than Fun: The Unlikely Stardom of the Naked Mole Rat. The Wire Science. 3 March. https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/more-fun-than-fun-naked-mole-rat-captures-fancy-of-scientists-and-artists-alike/
(345)  Gadagkar, R. (2021). More Fun Than Fun: Learning How Fruit Flies Disperse – From a Tabletop.The Wire Science, 17 March.https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/humans-animals-plants-dispersal-fruit-flies-elegant-experiment-iiser-pune/
(346)  Gadagkar, R. (2021). Experiments in Animal Behaviour : Cutting-Edge Research at Trifling Cost. e-Books of the Indian Academy of Sciences. Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore.
https://www.ias.ac.in/Publications/e-Books/Experiments_in_Animal_Behaviour
(347)  Gadagkar, R. (2021). More Fun Than Fun:How Do Insect Societies Deal With Infectious Diseases.The Wire Science, 31 March.
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/insect-societies-infectious-diseases-raghavendra-gadagkar/
(348)  Gadagkar, R. (2021). More Fun Than Fun:My Favourite Lizard Stories.The Wire Science, 14 April.https://science.thewire.in/environment/raghavendra-gadagkar-lizard-stories/
Kannada podcast and text also available
(349) Gadagkar, R. (2021). Foreword - India on My Mind : Reflections on Politics, Democracy & History by Uday Balakrishnan. Centre for Policy Studies, Visakhapatnam, pp. 12–15.
(350) Gadagkar, R. (2021). More Fun Than Fun :Chandru’s Inordinate Fondness for Insects.The Wire Science, 28 April.URL https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/krishnappa-chandrashekara-insect-population-diversity-tropics
Kannada version: Gadagkar, Sharma and Manjunatha
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/kannada-podcast-chandrus-inordinate-fondness-for-insects/
(351) Krishnan, A. (2021). Science on a shoestring budget: Interview with Raghavendra Gadagkar.Mongabay-India. 4 May. https://india.mongabay.com/2021/05/interview-science-on-a-shoestring-budget
(351a) Krishnan, A. (2021). Science on a shoestring budget: Interview with Raghavendra Gadagkar.The New Leam. 19 May.
https://www.thenewleam.com/2021/05/science-on-a-shoestring-budget
(352)
 Gadagkar,R. (2021). More Fun Than Fun: The Joys and Burdens of Our Heroes. The Wire Science. 12 May.
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/james-watson-konrad-lorentz-contributions-biology-social-justice-raghavendra-gadagkar/
(353)  Gadagkar, R. (2021). More Fun Than Fun: Chasing Wasps on a Bicycle – and Getting a PhD. The Wire Science, 26 May.
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/more-fun-than-fun-chasing-wasps-on-a-bicycle-and-getting-a-phd/

(354)  Gadagkar, R. (2021). More Fun Than Fun: Not Just Us – Dancing Bees Need a Good Night’s Sleep, Too. The Wire Science, 9 June.
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/honey-bees-dance-language-sleep-deprivation-barrett-klein-simple-research/
(355) Gadagkar, R. (2021). More Fun Than Fun : Scientists Must Write for the People.The Wire Science, 23 June.
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/scientists-science-writing-writers-knowledge-producers-imagination/
(356)  Gadagkar, R. (2021). More Fun Than Fun : David Wake, Salamanders and the Origin and Loss of Species. The Wire Science, 7 July.
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/david-wake-salamanders-ensatina-complex-origin-loss-species-raghavendra-gadagkar/
(357) Gadagkar, R. (2021). More Fun Than Fun :The South Asian Greater Banded Hornet Waits to be Studied. The Wire Science, 21 July.
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/greater-banded-hornets-vespa-tropica-miriam-lehrer-hema-somanathan/
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/david-wake-salamanders-ensatina-complex-origin-loss-species-raghavendra-gadagkar/
(358) Gadagkar, R.(2021). More Fun Than Fun: Evolution on Islands in Water, in the Sky and Elsewhere.The Wire Science, 4 August.
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/island-biogeography-shola-sky-islands-evolution-raghavendra-gadagkar/
(359) Gadagkar, R. (2021). More Fun Than Fun: Plants Also Have Their Social Lives and Family Disputes. The Wire Science.18 August. https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/eusocial-fern-suzanne-batra-endosperm-frugal-science-raghavendra-gadagkar/
(360) Gadagkar, R. (2021). Guest Editorial: Communicating science to the general public: role of scientists and science writers. Current Science, 121, 463–464.https://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/121/04/0463.pdf
(361) Gadagkar, R. (2021). Prof. Dr. Raghavendra Gadagkar, India - Alumni Uni Würzburg - 1000 Careers One Story. Teilnehmer-Portraits.https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/alumni/international/forum-wandel-mitgestalten-2021/teilnehmer-portraits/prof-dr-raghavendra-gadagkar-india/
(362) Gadagkar, R. (2021). More Fun Than Fun: Weaving with Silk, the Ant Way. The Wire Science, 1 September.
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/weaver-ants-silk-larvae-kin-selection-altruism/
(363) Gadagkar, R. (2021). More Fun Than Fun: The Underground Architects and Engineers of the Ant World. The Wire Science, 15 September. https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/fire-ant-nest-underground-architecture-walter-tschinkel/
(364) Krishnan, J.U., Brahma, A., Chavan, S.K. and Gadagkar, R. (2021). Nutrition induced direct fitness for workers in a primitively eusocial wasp. Insectes Sociaux, 68, 319-325.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-021-00835-3 https://rdcu.be/cx8ld
(365) Gadagkar, R. (2021). More Fun Than Fun: The Exquisite Wax Palace of the Honey Bees. The Wire Science, 29 September. https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/wax-palaces-honey-bees-self-organisation-stigmergy/
(366) Gadagkar, R. (2021). The Many Ways of Doing a PhD. Indian Academy of Sciences - Confluence. http://confluence.ias.ac.in/the-many-ways-of-doing-a-phd/
(367) Gadagkar, R. (2021). More Fun Than Fun: What Do Dogs (and Other Animals) Do All Day and All Night? The Wire Science. 13 October. https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/what-do-dogs-and-other-animals-do-all-day-and-all-night/
(368) Gadagkar, R. ( 2021). More Fun Than Fun: Decoding the Babbles of Crickets, Birds and Undergrads. The Wire Science. 27 October.
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/decoding-babbles-crickets-birds-manjari-jain/
(369) Gadagkar, R. (2021). More Fun Than Fun: Beetles Lead Complex Social Lives in Dead Trees. The Wire Science. 24 November.
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/beetles-lead-complex-social-lives-in-dead-trees/
(370) Gadagkar, R. (2021). Response - Unfolding science from the laboratory to laypersons in their native language. Current Science, Correspondence 121, 1142. https://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/121/09/1142.pdf
(371) Gadagkar, R., Sharma, N. and Pinter-Wollmann, N. (2022). Queen Succession in the Indian Paper Wasp Ropalidia marginata: on the trail of the potential queen. Journal of Biosciences, 47, 18. https://doi.10.1007/s12038-021-00250-7
(372) Gadagkar, R. (2021). More Fun Than Fun: The Delicate Truce Between Cleaner Fish and Their Clients. The Wire Science, 29 December.
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/cleaner-fish-mutualism-cooperation-altruism-theories-redouan-bshary/
(373)  Sharma, N., Gadagkar, R., and Pinter-Wollmann, N. (2022). A reproductive heir has a central position in multilayer social Q4 networks of paper wasps. Animal Behaviour,185, 21-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.12.011
(374) Gadagkar, R. (2022). More Fun Than Fun: E.O. Wilson’s Love of Ants – and All Things Living. The Wire Science, 26 January. https://science.thewire.in/environment/remembering-edward-osborne-wilson-naturalist-raghavendra-gadagkar/
(375) Gadagkar, R. (2022). More Fun Than Fun: What Can Coucals Teach Us About Parental Care? The Wire Science. 23 February.
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/black-coucal-altricial-sex-role-reversal-male-female-parenting/
(376)  Gadagkar, R. (2022). More Fun Than Fun: The Wasp Who Would Be Queen. The Wire Science. 30 March. https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/ropalidia-marginata-primitive-eusocial-species-queen-succession/
(377) Gadagkar, R. (2022). Parallel Histories - A Review of - A Tale of Two Viruses: Parallels in the Research Trajectories of Tumor and Bacterial Viruses by Neeraja Sankaran. University of Pittsburgh Press. Inference, 7, 1.
https://inference-review.com/article/parallel-histories https://doi.org/10.37282/991819.22.23
(378) Gadagkar, R. (2022). More Fun Than Fun: The Fly in The Room. The Wire Science. 27 April.
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/to-know-a-fly-vincent-dethier/
(379) Gadagkar, R. (2022). Bibliophilia: The Father of Modern Ecology. Resonance - Journal of Science Education, 27, 839–853. https://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fulltext/reso/027/05/0839-0853
(380) Gadagkar, R. (2022). More Fun Than Fun: Strife in the Harmonious World of Honey Bees. The Wire Science. 25 May.
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/understanding-strife-honey-bee-society/
(381) Gadagkar, R. (2022). More Fun Than Fun: Strife in the Harmonious
World of Honey Bees, Part 2. The Wire Science, 29 June. https://science.thewire.in/environment/strife-harmonious-world-honey-bees-2/
(382) Gadagkar, R. (2022). An inordinate fondness for wasps - A Review of - Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps by Seiran Sumner, Harper Collins, 2022. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1–1.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01822-y
(383) Gadagkar, R., 2022. EO Wilson’s Love of Ants - and All Things Living. Resonance - Journal of Science Education 27 (8), 1289–1305.
https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/reso/027/08/1289-1305