Our lab maintains Biodiversity Research Collections that include dry specimens (largely pinned insects, especially butterflies, moths, odonates and cicadas), wet specimens/tissue (tissue and whole specimens of invertebrates and amphibians) that are used in evolutionary, genetic, ecological, systematic, taxonomic and conservation studies. These collections are maintained in a climate-controlled space and in deep freezers. We are fully equipped with microscopes, PCR and sequencing machines, and other instruments needed for biodiversity studies.
Our work has led to deep insights into the evolutionary, genetic and ecological aspects of Indian biodiversity, and the discovery of dozens of species new to science, reported in over 80 research papers.
Read more at the Biodiversity Research Collections website.