Anuradha
Bhat 
Postdoctoral
Research Fellow 
Current Research
My
current research as
a postdoc at Emília Martins' lab,
Indiana
University focuses on studies on behavioral
adaptations in native zebrafish populations and towards understanding
the finer
links between ecology and
these behavioral divergences. A combination of ecological information
from zebrafish populations from a wide
geographical range and laboratory studies on select behavioral traits
(shoaling, boldness, aggression) are
used to answer a variety of
questions:
Are
there significant variations in behavior among
natural zebrafish populations from different ecological
conditions
(such as flow regimes, vegetation)?
What is the extent of plasticity
in the expression of behavioral traits- are they context dependent?
What
are the physiological
and genetic mechanisms behind these behavioral expressions?
Publications (with downloadable pdfs)
Research interests
My personal website (for
more about Western Ghats)
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