KRUSHNAMEGH KUNTE HAS MOVED TO THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES (NCBS), BENGALURU, INDIA. VISIT HIS NEW LAB WEBSITE AT BIODIVERSITYLAB.ORG

Biological diversity is organized at various levels, from communities and constituent species to genomes and genes. This diversity and its evolution are influenced by natural and sexual selection exerted by habitat conditions, ecological opportunities, and interactions such as competition and mutualism among and within species. I am an evolutionary biologist and ecologist interested in studying biodiversity, its complexity and interactions at all these organizational levels, and the selective processes that shape them.

With this very broad interest in biology, I am involved in numerous research projects. However, currently my primary focus is on two research themes. The first one is the wing color pattern evolution, speciation and mimicry in the remarkably diverse Asian subgenus Menelaides of Papilio swallowtail butterflies, commonly known as mormon swallowtails. Read more about this research here.

I also continue my ecological, biogeographic, phylogenetic and conservation studies on Indian butterflies, which has been my first love and the second focus of my current research. Read more about my work on Indian butterflies here.

Accompanying pages give more information about my research, books, photography and other work. Do take time to browse through this website, and you are very welcome to contact me if any of this interests you either as a student, a potential collaborator or even a lay person.