Vivek P Cyriac

Position: 
Post Doc
Phone:
+91-80-2293--2360-
Name: Vivek P Cyriac
Office: 
TB-01
Research Areas: 
Evolutionary Ecology
Specialization: 
Molecular Phylogenetics, Macroevolution, Herpetology
Selected Publications: 

Cyriac, V. P.* & U. Kodandaramaiah (2020). Warning signals promote morphological diversification in fossorial uropeltid snakes. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 191 (2): 468 – 481.

Cyriac, V. P.*, M. J. Palot, K. Deuti, P. K. Umesh (2020). A preliminary 16S rRNA phylogeny of the Indian Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) with the description of two new cryptic species from the C. wynadensis clade. Vertebrate Zoology, 70 (2): 171 – 193​.

Cyriac, V. P.* & U. Kodandaramaiah (2019). Don't waste your time: predators avoid prey with conspicuous colors that signal long handling time. Evolutionary Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-019-09998-9.

Cyriac, V. P.*, & U. Kodandaramaiah (2018). Digging their own macroevolutionary grave: fossoriality as an evolutionary dead-end in snakes. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 31: 587–598. doi: 10.1111/jeb.13248 (preprint on PaleorXiv )​

Cyriac, V. P.*, & U. Kodandaramaiah (2017). Paleoclimate determines diversification patterns in the fossorial snake family Uropeltidae Cuvier, 1829. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 116, 97-107.

Lab: 
TB-01
Advisor: 
Kartik Shanker