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Borges, R. M. (2015).
Fruit and seed volatiles: Multiple stage settings, actors and props in an evolutionary play.
Journal of the Indian Institute of Science 95:93–104. [Special issue on Plant Volatiles: R.M. Borges was Guest Editor].
Gall induction
Borges, R.M. (2021).
Interactions between figs and gall-inducing fig wasps: adaptations, constraints and unanswered questions.
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9:685542.
Gallers
Venkateshwaran, V. & Borges, R.M. (2021).
Staying in the club: Exploring criteria governing metacommunity membership for obligate symbionts under host–symbiont feedback.
Journal of Theoretical Biology. 510:110512.
Gupta, S., Kumble, A.L.K., Dey, K., Bessière, J.-M., Borges, R. M. (2021).
The scent of life: phoretic nematodes use wasp volatiles and carbon dioxide to choose functional vehicles for dispersal.
Journal of Chemical Ecology 47:139–152.
Gupta, S., & Borges, R. M. (2020).
Hopping on: Conspecific traveller density within a vehicle regulates parasitic hitchhiking between ephemeral microcosms.
Journal of Animal Ecology.
Venkateswaran, V., Kumble, A.L., Borges, R.M. (2018).
Resource dispersion influences dispersal evolution of highly insulated insect communities.
Biology Letters 14:20180111.
Borges, R.M. (2018).
The galling truth: limited knowledge of gall-associated volatiles in multitrophic interactions.
Frontiers in Plant Science 9:1130.
Yadav, P., Borges, R.M. (2018).
Why resource history matters: age and oviposition history affect oviposition behaviour in exploiters of a mutualism.
Ecological Entomology.
Yadav, P., Desireddy, S., Kasinathan, S., Bessière, J.-M., Borges, R.M. (2018).
History matters: oviposition resource acceptance in an exploiter of a nursery pollination mutualism.
Journal of Chemical Ecology 44:18–28.
Venkateswaran, V., Shrivastava, A., Kumble, A.L., Borges, R.M. (2017).
Life-history strategy, resource dispersion and phylogenetic associations shape dispersal of a fig wasp community.
Movement Ecology 5:25.
Yadav, P., Borges, R.M. (2017).
Host–parastioid development and survival strategies in a non-pollinating fig wasp community.
Acta Oecologica.
Ranganathan, Y., Bessiere, J. M., Borges, R. M. (2015).
A coat of many scents: cuticular hydrocarbons in multitrophic interactions of fig wasps with ants.
Acta Oecologica, 67:24–33.
Borges, R. M. (2015).
How to be a fig wasp parasite on the fig–fig wasp mutualism.
Current Opinion in Insect Science 8:34–40.
Krishnan, A., Pramanik, G. K., Revadi, S. V., Venkateswaran, V., Borges, R.M. (2014).
High temperatures result in smaller nurseries which lower reproduction of pollinators and parasites in a brood site pollination mutualism.
PLOS ONE 9: e115118.
Krishnan, A., Borges, R.M. (2014).
Parasites exert conflicting selection pressures to affect reproductive asynchrony of their host plant in an obligate pollination mutualism.
Journal of Ecology 102:1329–1340.
Ghara, M., Ranganathan, Y., Krishnan, A., Gowda, V., Borges R.M. (2014).
Divvying up an incubator: How parasitic and mutualistic fig wasps use space within their nursery microcosm.
Arthropod-Plant Interactions 8:191–203.
Ghara, M., Kundanati, L., Borges, R.M. (2011).
Nature’s Swiss army knives: ovipositor structure mirrors ecology in a multitrophic fig wasp community.
PLOS One 6:e23642.
Ranganathan, Y., Ghara, M., Borges, R.M. (2010).
Temporal association in fig–wasp–ant interactions: diel and phenological patterns.
Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 137:50–61.
Ghara, M., Borges, R.M. (2010).
Comparative life-history traits in a fig wasp community: implications for community structure.
Ecological Entomology 35:139–148.
Galls
Borges, R.M. (2021).
Interactions between figs and gall-inducing fig wasps: adaptations, constraints and unanswered questions.
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9:685542.
Borges, R.M. (2018).
The galling truth: limited knowledge of gall-associated volatiles in multitrophic interactions.
Frontiers in Plant Science 9:1130.
Game theory
Borges, R.M. (2015)
How mutualisms between plants and insects are stabilized.
Current Science 108:1862–1868. [Special issue on Evolutionary Biology in honour of death centenary of Alfred Russel Wallace].
Borges, R.M. (1998).
Leviathan, natural selection, and ethics.
Current Science 74:750–758.
Borges, R.M. (1998).
Gender in plants. Part II. More about why and how plants change sex.
Resonance 3:30–39.
Garcinia talbotii
Somanathan, H., Borges, R.M. (2000).
Influence of exploitation on population structure, plant spacing and reproductive success in dioecious tree species within a fragmented cloud forest in India.
Biological Conservation 94:243–256.
Gender
Borges, R.M. (1998).
Gender in plants. Part II. More about why and how plants change sex.
Resonance 3:30–39.
Borges, R.M. (1998).
Gender in plants. Part I. Why do plants change sex?
Resonance 3:64–71.
General Science
Borges, R.M. (2022).
Reproducibility and replicability in science: A Sisyphean task.
Journal of Biosciences. 47(1):1–3.
Borges, R.M. and 22 others. (2010).
A draft vision document for Indian science.
Indian National Science Academy (INSA). Member of INSA Vision Group.
Borges, R.M. (2009).
The excitement of colours and scents.
Pages 59–62 In: Lilavati’s Daughters (eds: Rohini Godbole & Ram Ramaswamy), Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore.
Genetic diversity
Katariya, L., Ramesh, P.B., Gopalappa, T., Borges, R.M. (2017).
Sex and diversity: the mutualistic and parasitic fungi of a fungus-growing termite differ in genetic diversity and reproductive strategy.
Fungal Ecology 26:20–27.
Vignes, H., Hossaert-McKey, M., Beaune, D., Fevre, D., Anstett, M.-C., Borges, R.M., Kjellberg, F., Chevallier, M.H. (2006).
Development and characterization of microsatellite markers for a monoecious Ficus species, Ficus insipida, and cross-species amplification among different sections of Ficus.
Molecular Ecology Notes 6:792–795.
Geographic variation
Chanam, J., Kasinathan, S., Pramanik, G.K., Jagdeesh, A., Joshi, K.A., Borges, R.M. (2014).
Context dependency of rewards and services in an Indian ant– plant interaction: southern sites favour the mutualism between plants and ants.
Journal of Tropical Ecology 30:219–229.
George C Williams
Borges, R.M. (2009).
Revolutions in evolutionary thought: Darwin and after.
Resonance 14:102–123.
Gregor Johann Mendel
Borges, R.M. (2005).
Ernst Mayr and evolutionary biology: polemics and synthesis.
Current Science 89:947–954.
Borges, R.M. (2005).
Polemics and synthesis: Ernst Mayr and evolutionary biology.
Resonance 10:21–33.