Publications
Preprints
Lall, S., Mudunuri, A., Santhosh, S., Malwade, A., Thadi, A., Kondakath, G. and Dey, S., 2019. Adult crowding induces sexual dimorphism in chronic stress-response in Drosophila melanogaster. bioRxiv 702357.
2024
Vibishan, B., Harshavardhan, B.V. and Dey, S. 2024. A resource-based mechanistic framework for castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Journal of Theoretical Biology (in press). biorxiv.
Chavhan, Y., Malusare, S. and Dey, S., 2023. Population size shapes trade-off dilution and adaptation to a marginal niche unconstrained by sympatric habitual conditions. Evolution. 78, 342-354. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpad212. bioRxiv.
2023
Chavhan, Y., Dey, S. & Lind, P.A. 2023. Bacteria evolve macroscopic multicellularity by the genetic assimilation of phenotypically plastic cell clustering. Nature Communications. 14, 3555.
Lustenhouwer, Nicky; Moerman, Felix ; Altermatt, Florian; Bassar, Ronald; Bocedi, Greta; Bonte, Dries; Dey, Sutirth; Fronhofer, Emanuel A.; Garcez de Rocha, Érika ; Giometto, Andrea; Lancaster, Lesley; Prather Jr., Robert; Saastamoinen, Marjo; Travis, Justin; Urquhart, Carla; Weiss-Lehman, Christopher; Williams, Jennifer; Börger, Luca; Berger, David (2023). Experimental evolution of dispersal: unifying theory, experiments and natural systems. Journal of Animal Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13930.
Vidya, T.N.C., Dey, S., Prasad, N.G., Joshi, A. (2023). The Darwinian Core of Evolutionary Theory and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Similarities and Differences. In: Dickins, T.E., Dickins, B.J. (eds) Evolutionary Biology: Contemporary and Historical Reflections Upon Core Theory. Evolutionary Biology – New Perspectives on Its Development, vol 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22028-9_17. EcoEvorxiv. 10.32942/osf.io/4my2n.
2022
Selveshwari, S., Khaire, K.C., Kadam, A. and Dey, S., 2022. The effect of migration and variation on populations of Escherichia coli adapting to complex fluctuating environments. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 35, 1500-1507. DOI: 10.1111/jeb.14101. bioRxiv 2022.03.22.485294. (bioRxiv version represents an earlier draft of the paper)
Mishra, A., Tung, S., Sruti, V.R.S., Shreenidhi, P.M., and Dey, S., 2021. Desiccation stress acts as cause as well as cost of dispersal in Drosophila melanogaster. The American Naturalist 199, E111-E123. DOI: 10.1086/718641. [bioRxiv] (bioRxiv version represents an earlier draft of the paper)
2021
Chavhan, Y., Malusare, S. and Dey, S., 2020. Interplay of population size and environmental fluctuations: A new explanation for fitness cost rarity in asexuals. Ecology Letters. 24, 1943-1954. DOI: 10.1111/ele.13831. [bioRxiv] (bioRxiv version represents an earlier draft of the paper).
Selveshwari, S., Lele, K. and Dey, S., 2021. Genomic signatures of UV resistance evolution in Escherichia coli depend on the growth phase during exposure. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 34, 953-967. DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13764. [bioRxiv]
2020
Mishra, A., Chakraborty, P. P., and Dey, S. 2020. Dispersal evolution diminishes the negative density dependence in dispersal. Evolution 74, 2149-2157. DOI: 10.1111/evo.14070 [bioRxiv] [news coverage 1][news coverage 2]
Mishra, A., Tung, S., Sruti, V.R.S., Srivathsa, S., and Dey, S., 2020. Mate-finding dispersal reduces local mate limitation and sex bias in dispersal. Journal of Animal Ecology 89, 2089-2098. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13278 [bioRxiv]
Chavhan, Y. D., Malusare, S. and Dey, S., 2020. Larger bacterial populations evolve heavier fitness trade-offs and undergo greater ecological specialization. Heredity 124, 726-736. DOI: 10.1038/s41437-020-0308-x [news coverage] [podcast]
2019
Chavhan, Y. D., Karve, S. M., and Dey, S. 2019. Adapting in larger numbers can increase the vulnerability of Escherichia coli populations to environmental changes. Evolution 73, 836-846. DOI: 10.1111/evo.13700 [bioRxiv]
Chavhan, Y. D., Ali, S. I., and Dey, S. 2019. Larger numbers can impede adaptation in asexual populations despite entailing greater genetic variation. Evolutionary Biology 46, 1-13. DOI: 10.1007/s11692-018-9467-6 [bioRxiv] [news coverage]
Tung, S., Rajamani, M., Joshi, A., Dey, S. 2019. Complex interaction of resource availability, life-history and demography determines the dynamics and stability of stage-structured populations. Journal of Theoretical Biology 460, 1-12. DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2018.10.019 [bioRxiv][pdf]
2018
Mishra, A., Tung, S., Shree Sruti, V. R., Sadiq, M. A., Srivathsa, S., and Dey, S. 2018. Pre-dispersal context and presence of opposite sex modulate density dependence and sex bias of dispersal. Oikos 127, 1596-1604. DOI: 10.1111/oik.04902 [pdf] [blog coverage 1] [blog coverage 2][bioRxiv]
Dey, S. and Joshi, A., 2018. Two Decades of Drosophila Population Dynamics: Modeling, Experiments, and Implications. Handbook of Statistics 39, 275-312. DOI: 10.1016/bs.host.2018.06.006 [LINK]
Mishra, A.*, Tung, S.*, Shreenidhi, P. M., Sadiq, M. A., Sruti, V. S., Chakraborty, P. P., and Dey, S. 2018. Sex differences in dispersal syndromes are modulated by environment and evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 373, 20170428. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0428 *Equal contribution. [pdf] [blog coverage]
Tung, S., Mishra, A., Gogna, N., Sadiq, M. A., Shreenidhi, P. M., Sruti, V. S., Dorai, K., Dey, S. 2018. Evolution of dispersal syndrome and its corresponding metabolomic changes. Evolution 72, 1890-1903. DOI: 10.1111/evo.13560 [bioRxiv] [pdf] [news coverage] [podcast]
Karve, S.M., Bhave, D., Dey, S. 2018. Extent of adaptation is not limited by unpredictability of the environment in laboratory populations of Escherichia coli. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 31, 1420-1426. DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13338 [bioRxiv] [news coverage] [podcast]
Tung, S., Mishra, A., Shreenidhi, P. M., Sadiq, M. A., Joshi, S., Sruti, V. S., Dey, S. 2018. Simultaneous evolution of multiple dispersal components and kernel. Oikos 127, 34-44. DOI: 10.1111/oik.04618 [pdf] [SOM] [news coverage] [podcast] [bioRxiv]
2017
Gupta, M., Prasad, N. G., Dey, S., Joshi, A., & Vidya, T. N. C. 2017. Feldman et al. do protest too much, we think. (Response to Comments) Journal of Genetics 96, 509-511.doi:10.1007/s12041-017-0796-5 [pdf]
Gupta, M., Prasad, N. G., Dey, S., Joshi, A., & Vidya, T. N. C. 2017. Niche construction in evolutionary theory: the construction of an academic niche? Journal of Genetics 96, 491-504.doi:10.1007/s12041-017-0787-6 bioRxiv. [pdf]
2016
Karve, S.M., Bhave, D., Nevgi, D., Dey, S. 2016. Escherichia coli populations adapt to complex, unpredictable fluctuations without any trade-offs across environments. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 29, 2545-2555. DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12972 [bioRxiv]
Tung, S., Mishra, A., Dey, S. 2016. Simultaneous enhancement of multiple stability properties using two-parameter control methods in Drosophila melanogaster. Ecological Complexity 26, 128-136. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2016.05.001 [pdf] [SOM] [bioRxiv]
Karve, S.M., Tiwary, K., Selveshwari, S., Dey, S. 2016. Environmental fluctuations do not select for increased variation or population-based resistance in Escherichia coli. Journal of Biosciences 41, 39-49. [bioRxiv] [pdf]
Tung, S., Mishra, A., Dey, S. 2016. Stabilizing the dynamics of laboratory populations of Drosophila melanogaster through upper and lower limiter controls. Ecological Complexity 25, 18-25. [pdf] [SOM] [bioRxiv]
2015
Karve, S.M., Daniel, S., Chavhan, Y.C., Anand, A., Kharola, S.K., and Dey, S. 2015. Escherichia coli populations in unpredictably fluctuating environments evolve to face novel stresses through enhanced efflux activity. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28, 1131-1143. DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12640 [pdf] [SOM] [bioRxiv]
Prasad, N.G., Dey, S., Joshi, A. and Vidya, T.N.C. 2015. Rethinking inheritance, yet again: inheritomes, contextomes and dynamic phenotypes. Journal of Genetics 94, 367-376. bioRxiv doi:10.1007/s12041-015-0554-5.
2014
Sah, P. and Dey, S. 2014. Stabilizing spatially-structured populations through Adaptive Limiter Control. PLoS One 9(8) e105861. arXiv: 1307.1917. [pdf]
Tung, S., Mishra, A. and Dey, S. 2014. A comparison of six methods for stabilizing population dynamics. Journal of Theoretical Biology 356, 163-173. [pdf][SOM] DOI 10.1016/j.jtbi.2014.04.036
2013
Nagaraj, N., Balasubramanian, K. and Dey, S. 2013. A new complexity measure for time series analysis and classification. European Physical Journal: Special Topics 222, 847–860. [pdf], [download code]
Sah, Pratha, Salve, Joseph and Dey, S. Stabilizing biological populations and metapopulations by Adaptive Limiter Control. 2013. arXiv 1205.4086. Journal of Theoretical Biology 320 (7), 113-123. [pdf], [SOM], [Highlights of the paper]
2011
Yati, Arpit and Dey, S. 2011. FlyCounter: a simple software for counting large populations of small clumped objects in the laboratory. BioTechniques 51(5): 347-348. [pdf] [download FlyCounter]
Pre-2010
Modak, S.G., Satish, K.M., Mohan, J., Dey, S., Raghavendra, N., Shakarad, M., and Joshi, A. 2009. A possible tradeoff between developmental rate and pathogen resistance in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Genetics 88 (2), 253-256. [pdf]
Dey, S., Prasad, N.G., Shakarad, M., and Joshi, A. 2008. Laboratory evolution of population stability in Drosophila: constancy and persistence do not necessarily coevolve. Journal of Animal Ecology 77 (4), 670-677. [pdf]
Dey, S. and Joshi, A. 2007. Local perturbations do not affect stability of laboratory fruitfly metapopulations. PLoS ONE 2(2): e233. [pdf]
Dey, S. and Joshi, A. Response to comment on "Stability via asynchrony in Drosophila metapopulations with low migration rates." Science 314, 420b. [pdf]
Dey, S. and Joshi, A. 2006. Stability via asynchrony in Drosophila metapopulations with low migration rates. Science 312, 434-436. [pdf] [Supplementary Online Material].
Dey, S., Dey, S., Mohan, J., and Joshi, A. 2006. Micro-environmental variations in pre-assay rearing conditions can lead to anomalies in the measurement of life-history traits.Journal of Genetics 85, 53-56. [pdf]
Dey, S., Dabholkar, S., and Joshi, A. 2006. The effect of migration on metapopulation stability is qualitatively unaffected by spatial structuring of among patch variation. Journal of Theoretical Biology 238, 78-84. [pdf]
Prasad, N. G., Dey, S., Shakarad, M. and Joshi, A. 2003. The evolution of population stability as a by-product of life-history evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences (Supplement: Biology Letters) 270 : S84-S86. [pdf]
Non-peer reviewed articles
Dey, S. (2021) Book review for Nature Strange and Beautiful: How Living Beings Evolved and Made the Earth a Home by Egbert Giles Leigh, Jr and Christian Ziegler. Yale University Press, in association with Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. 2019. Current Science 120(2) 436-437.
Dey, S. Confessions of a capricious character. 2010. Jahrbuch 2008/2009. Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. [pdf]
Bagler, G., Chen, W.C., Cui, J., Dey, S., Gibson, W.T., Milosevic, V., Rosenbloom, D., Zhang, J. 2005. Non-verbal human communication under varying levels of restrictions: An empirical and computational investigation of Password and Gasekitomu games. Student papers, Complex Systems Summer School, Beijing, China.
Dey, S. 2004. Benefits of being biased! Journal of Genetics 83(2) 113-115. [pdf]
Dey, S. and Joshi, A. 2004. Genomes, phenomes and fitness: mapping a new biology. Pgs. 189-192 in Deep Roots, Open Skies: New Biology in India (Eds. S. K. Basu, J. K. Batra, D. M. Salunke), Narosa Publishers, New Delhi.
Shashidhara, LS and Dey, S. Darwin Day: How theories of evolution helped our knowledge of life on Earth. Indian Express (11-Feb-2024).