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2026
Candidozyma auris (Candida auris) as a harbinger of novel fungal pathogens
Carla E. Schuh, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
mSphere
microbial disease & health
2026
Host-initiated microbial association leads to stable ectosymbiosis in an ecological model
Nandakishore Krishnan, István Zachar, Ádám Kun, Chaitanya S. Gokhale, József Garay
PLOS Computational Biology
species interactions mutualism & symbiosis microbial ecological dynamical systems
2026
The Historical Biogeography of the New World Black Birds (Icteridae)
Axel Arango, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
Frontiers of Biogeography
speciation & diversification animal phylogenetic comparative methods
2026
How competition can drive allochronic divergence: A case study in the Marine Midge, Clunio marinus
Alexander G. G. Jacobsen, Tobias S. Kaiser, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
PLOS Computational Biology
life history & sexual selection animal ecological dynamical systems
2026
Phenotypic polymorphism via mate copying
Srishti Patil, Sabine Nöbel, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
life history & sexual selection social learning & behaviour animal evolutionary game theory learning & decision dynamics
2026
Optimising play for learning risky behaviour
Dharanish Rajendra, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
Proceedings of the Royal Society B
life history & sexual selection social learning & behaviour animal learning & decision dynamics
2026
The latitudinal speciation gradient in freshwater fishes: Higher speciation across assemblages at higher latitudes in the northern hemisphere
Juliana Herrera-Pérez, Juan Carvajal-Quintero, Axel Arango, Daniel Valencia-Rodríguez, Ana Berenice García-Andrade, Pablo Tedesco, Fabricio Villalobos
PLOS One 21(1)
speciation & diversification animal phylogenetic comparative methods
2025
On multiple infections by parasites with complex life cycles
Phuong L. Nguyen, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
Oikos
species interactions antagonistic coevolution animal epidemiological models
2025
Public Goods Games in Disease Evolution and Spread
C. Morison, Małgorzata Fic, T. Marcou, J. Mohamadichamgavi, J. Redondo Antón, G. Sayyar, A. Stein, Frank Bastian, H. Krakovská, Nandakishore Krishnan, D. Pires, M. R. Satouri, F. J. Thomsen, K. Tjikundi, W. Ali
Dynamic Games and Applications
cooperation & social dilemmas human & societies evolutionary game theory disease & health
2025
Compartment model of strategy-dependent time delays in replicator dynamics
Małgorzata Fic, Frank Bastian, Jacek Miękisz, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
Journal of Theoretical Biology 601
evolutionary game theory
2025
Collective cooperative intelligence
Wolfram Barfuss, Jessica Flack, Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Lewis Hammond, Christian Hilbe, Edward Hughes, Joel Z. Leibo, Tom Lenaerts, Naomi Leonard, Simon Levin, Udari Madhushani Sehwag, Alex McAvoy, Janusz M. Meylahn, Fernando P. Santos
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122(25)
cooperation & social dilemmas human & societies evolutionary game theory learning & decision dynamics
2025
Broad geographic dispersal is not a diversification driver for Emberizoidea
Axel Arango, Jesús Pinto-Ledezma, Octavio Rojas-Soto, Fabricio Villalobos
Proceedings of the Royal Society B
speciation & diversification animal phylogenetic comparative methods
2025
The cost of fungicide resistance evolution in multi-field plant epidemics
Alexey Mikaberidze, Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Maria Bargués-Ribera, Prateek Verma
PLOS Sustainability and Transformation 4(6)
antagonistic coevolution plant epidemiological models agriculture & food security
2025
The Evolution of Dependence and Cohesion in Incipient Endosymbioses
Gaurav S. Athreya, Pete Czuppon, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
The American Naturalist
species interactions mutualism & symbiosis microbial adaptive dynamics
2025
The effects of the dispersal ability in the diversification dynamics of Emberizoidea (Aves: Passeriformes)
Axel Arango, Jesús Pinto-Ledezma, Octavio Rojas-Soto, Fabricio Villalobos
Evolution
speciation & diversification animal phylogenetic comparative methods
2025
Coexistence rules for small, antagonistically interacting microbial communities
Gaurav S. Athreya, Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Prateek Verma
PLOS Computational Biology
species interactions microbial ecological dynamical systems
2025
History, climate, and competition shape ecological specialization in the Emberizoidea radiation
Axel Arango, Marcell K. Peters, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
Journal of Avian Biology
speciation & diversification animal phylogenetic comparative methods
2024
Effects of time spent in pregnancy or brooding on immunocompetence
Vandana Revathi Venkateswaran, Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Marc Mangel, Sigrunn Eliassen
Ecology and Evolution 14(1)
life history & sexual selection animal evolutionary game theory
2024
Catalysing cooperation: the power of collective beliefs in structured populations
Małgorzata Fic, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
npj Complexity 1
cooperation & social dilemmas social learning & behaviour human & societies evolutionary game theory
2024
The Free-Running Circasemilunar Period Is Determined by Counting Circadian Clock Cycles in the Marine Midge Clunio Marinus
Jule Neumann, Dharanish Rajendra, Tobias S. Kaiser
Journal of Biological Rhythms
life history & sexual selection social learning & behaviour animal
2023
Optimizing crop rotations via Parrondo’s paradox for sustainable agriculture
Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Nikhil Sharma
Royal Society Open Science 10
plant stochastic & finite-population agriculture & food security
2023
Theoretical assessment of persistence and adaptation in weeds with complex life cycles
Dana Lauenroth, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
Nature Plants 9
antagonistic coevolution plant population genetics agriculture & food security
2023
Ecological Drivers of Community Cohesion
Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Mariana Velasque, Jai A. Denton
mSystems
species interactions microbial ecological dynamical systems biotechnology & gene drives
2023
Eco-evolutionary logic of mutualisms
Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Marcus Frean, Paul B. Rainey
Dynamic Games and Applications
species interactions mutualism & symbiosis evolutionary game theory
2023
The Effect of Mating Complexity on Gene Drive Dynamics
Prateek Verma, R. Guy Reeves, Samson Simon, Mathias Otto, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
The American Naturalist 201(1)
genomic animal population genetics biotechnology & gene drives
2022
Collective narratives catalyse cooperation
Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Joseph Bulbulia, Marcus Frean
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 9
cooperation & social dilemmas social learning & behaviour human & societies evolutionary game theory
2022
Evolution of reproductive strategies in incipient multicellularity
Yuanxiao Gao, Yuriy Pichugin, Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Arne Traulsen
Journal of the Royal Society Interface 19
population dynamics species interactions microbial evolutionary game theory
2022
The Covid-19 Pandemic: Basic Insights from Basic Mathematical Models
Arne Traulsen, Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Saumil Shah, Hildegard Uecker
Nova Acta Leopoldina
human & societies stochastic & finite-population epidemiological models disease & health
2021
How sequence populations persist inside bacterial genomes
Hye Jin Park, Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Frederic Bertels
Genetics
population dynamics genome evolution & transfer genomic microbial population genetics
2021
Memory shapes microbial populations
Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Stefano Giaimo, Philippe Remigi
PLOS Computational Biology 17
microbial stochastic & finite-population learning & decision dynamics
2021
On the fitness of informative cues in complex environments
Fabrizio Mafessoni, Michael Lachmann, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
Journal of Theoretical Biology 527
population dynamics stochastic & finite-population learning & decision dynamics
2021
Consequences of combining sex‐specific traits
Vandana Revathi Venkateswaran, Olivia Roth, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
Evolution
life history & sexual selection animal evolutionary game theory
2021
A common gene drive language eases regulatory process and eco-evolutionary extensions
Prateek Verma, R. Guy Reeves, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
BMC Ecology and Evolution 21
genomic population genetics biotechnology & gene drives
2020
Eco-evolutionary Spatial Dynamics of Nonlinear Social Dilemmas
Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Hye Jin Park
Advances in Dynamic Games
cooperation & social dilemmas evolutionary game theory
2020
How strategy environment and wealth shape altruistic behaviour: cooperation rules affecting wealth distribution in dynamic networks
Spandan Pathak, Prateek Verma, Sumit K. Ram, Supratim Sengupta
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287
cooperation & social dilemmas human & societies evolutionary game theory
2020
Synthetic Symbiosis under Environmental Disturbances
Jai A. Denton, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
mSystems 5(3)
species interactions mutualism & symbiosis microbial ecological dynamical systems biotechnology & gene drives
2020 BOOK CHAPTER
Henri in Wonderland
Hanna Schenk, Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Arne Traulsen
The Art of Theoretical Biology
evolutionary game theory
2020
Eco-evolutionary agriculture: Host-pathogen dynamics in crop rotations
Maria Bargués-Ribera, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
PLOS Computational Biology 16(1)
antagonistic coevolution plant epidemiological models agriculture & food security
2019
Synthetic Mutualism and the Intervention Dilemma
Jai A. Denton, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
Life 9(1)
species interactions mutualism & symbiosis microbial ecological dynamical systems biotechnology & gene drives
2019
Ecological feedback on diffusion dynamics
Hye Jin Park, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
Royal Society Open Science 6(2)
population dynamics cooperation & social dilemmas evolutionary game theory ecological dynamical systems
2019
Evolutionary dynamics of complex multiple games
Vandana R. Venkateswaran, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286(1905)
population dynamics evolutionary game theory
2018
Disentangling eco-evolutionary effects on trait fixation
Pete Czuppon, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
Theoretical Population Biology 124
population dynamics population genetics stochastic & finite-population
2018
Cellular hysteresis as a principle to maximize the efficacy of antibiotic therapy
Roderich Roemhild, Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Philip Dirksen, Christopher Blake, Philip Rosenstiel, Arne Traulsen, Dan I. Andersson, Hinrich Schulenburg
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115(39)
antagonistic coevolution microbial disease & health
2017
Discovering Complete Quasispecies in Bacterial Genomes
Frederic Bertels, Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Arne Traulsen
Genetics 206(4)
population dynamics genome evolution & transfer genomic microbial population genetics
2017
Unravelling the complexity and redundancy of carbon catabolic repression in Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25
Yunhao Liu, Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Paul B. Rainey, Xue-Xian Zhang
Molecular Microbiology 105(4)
genomic microbial
2017
Chaotic provinces in the kingdom of the Red Queen
Hanna Schenk, Arne Traulsen, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
Journal of Theoretical Biology 431
population dynamics antagonistic coevolution ecological dynamical systems
2017
Social dilemma in the external immune system of the red flour beetle? It is a matter of time
Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Arne Traulsen, Gerrit Joop
Ecology and Evolution 7(17)
species interactions cooperation & social dilemmas animal evolutionary game theory
2017
Spatio-temporal control of mutualism in legumes helps spread symbiotic nitrogen fixation
Benoit Daubech, Philippe Remigi, Ginaini Doin de Moura, Marta Marchetti, Cecile Pouzet, Marie-Christine Auriac, Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Catherine Masson-Boivin, Delphine Capela
eLife 6
species interactions mutualism & symbiosis microbial plant ecological dynamical systems
2016
Eco-evolutionary dynamics of social dilemmas
Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Christoph Hauert
Theoretical Population Biology 111
cooperation & social dilemmas evolutionary game theory
2016
Host–parasite coevolution. why changing population size matters
Andrei Papkou, Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Arne Traulsen, Hinrich Schulenburg
Zoology 119(4)
population dynamics antagonistic coevolution animal population genetics
2015
Host-parasite coevolution in populations of constant and variable size
Yixian Song, Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Andrei Papkou, Hinrich Schulenburg, Arne Traulsen
BMC Evolutionary Biology 15(1)
population dynamics antagonistic coevolution population genetics ecological dynamical systems
2015
Modes of migration and multilevel selection in evolutionary multiplayer games
Yuriy Pichugin, Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Julian Garcia, Arne Traulsen, Paul B. Rainey
Journal of Theoretical Biology 387
population dynamics evolutionary game theory
2015
Repeatability of evolution on epistatic landscapes
Benedikt Bauer, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
Scientific Reports 5
population dynamics population genetics stochastic & finite-population
2014
Evolutionary Multiplayer Games
Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Arne Traulsen
Dynamic Games and Applications 4(4)
population dynamics evolutionary game theory
2014
Dynamics of a combined medea-underdominant population transformation system
Chaitanya S. Gokhale, R. Guy Reeves, Floyd A. Reed
BMC Evolutionary Biology 14(1)
population dynamics genomic animal population genetics biotechnology & gene drives
2013
Dynamic Properties of Evolutionary Multi-player Games in Finite Populations
Bin Wu, Arne Traulsen, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
Games 4(2)
evolutionary game theory stochastic & finite-population
2013
Lotka - Volterra dynamics kills the Red Queen; population size fluctuations and associated stochasticity dramatically change host-parasite coevolution
Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Andrei Papkou, Arne Traulsen, Hinrich Schulenburg
BMC Evolutionary Biology 13(1)
species interactions antagonistic coevolution ecological dynamical systems stochastic & finite-population
2013
Interpretations arising from Wrightian and Malthusian fitness under strong frequency dependent selection
Bin Wu, Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Matthijs van Veelen, Long Wang, Arne Traulsen
Ecology and Evolution 3(5)
population dynamics population genetics
2012
On equilibrium properties of evolutionary multi-player games with random payoff matrices
The Anh Han, Arne Traulsen, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
Theoretical Population Biology 81(4)
evolutionary game theory
2012
Mutualism and evolutionary multiplayer games revisiting the Red King
Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Arne Traulsen
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279(1747)
species interactions mutualism & symbiosis evolutionary game theory
2012
How small are small mutation rates?
Bin Wu, Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Long Wang, Arne Traulsen
Journal of Mathematical Biology 64(5)
population dynamics evolutionary game theory stochastic & finite-population
2011
Strategy abundance in evolutionary many-player games with multiple strategies
Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Arne Traulsen
Journal of Theoretical Biology 283
population dynamics evolutionary game theory
2010
Evolutionary games in the multiverse
Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Arne Traulsen
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107(12)
evolutionary game theory
2010
Stochastic slowdown in evolutionary processes
Philipp M. Altrock, Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Arne Traulsen
Physical Review E 82(1)
population dynamics stochastic & finite-population
2009
MtSNPscore. a combined evidence approach for assessing cumulative impact of mitochondrial variations in disease
Anshu Bhardwaj, Mitali Mukerji, Shipra Sharma, Jinny Paul, Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Achal K. Srivastava, Shirish Tiwari
BMC Bioinformatics 10
genomic human & societies
2009
Pace of evolution across fitness valleys
Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Yoh Iwasa, Martin A. Nowak, Arne Traulsen
Journal of Theoretical Biology 259(3)
population dynamics population genetics stochastic & finite-population
2026 PREPRINT
The Historical Biogeography of the New World Black Birds (Icteridae)
Axel Arango, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
ARPHA Preprints
speciation & diversification animal phylogenetic comparative methods
2025 PREPRINT
How competition can drive allochronic divergence
Alexander G. G. Jacobsen, Tobias S. Kaiser, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
bioRxiv
animal ecological dynamical systems
2025 PREPRINT
Higher-order equivalence of Lotka-Volterra and replicator dynamics
Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Arne Traulsen
bioRxiv
evolutionary game theory ecological dynamical systems
2025 PREPRINT
Evolution of first aid and social wound care in an army ant society
J.J. Lagos-Oviedo, Dharanish Rajendra, Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Thomas Schmitt, Erik T. Frank
bioRxiv
species interactions cooperation & social dilemmas social learning & behaviour animal evolutionary game theory
2025 PREPRINT
Host-initiated microbial association leads to stable ectosymbiosis in an ecological model
Nandakishore Krishnan, István Zachar, Ádám Kun, Chaitanya S. Gokhale, József Garay
bioRxiv
species interactions mutualism & symbiosis microbial ecological dynamical systems
2024 PREPRINT
Assessing the probability and time of weed control failure
Dana Lauenroth, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
bioRxiv
antagonistic coevolution plant population genetics stochastic & finite-population agriculture & food security
2022 PREPRINT
Parasitoid pressures and silence evolution
Dhananjay Suswaram, Justin D. Yeakel, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
bioRxiv
species interactions antagonistic coevolution animal ecological dynamical systems
2020 PREPRINT
On a mechanistic process of macroparasite aggregation
Jomar F. Rabajante, Editha L. Anzia, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
bioRxiv
antagonistic coevolution animal epidemiological models
2019 PREPRINT
On the innovation and evolution of predatory tactics
Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Anne E. Wignall
bioRxiv
species interactions animal evolutionary game theory
2019 PREPRINT
Eco-evolutionary dynamics of Plasmodium genotypes
Maria Bargués-Ribera, R. Guy Reeves, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
bioRxiv
antagonistic coevolution microbial human & societies epidemiological models disease & health
2024 PHD THESIS
Understanding structured eco-evolutionary systems
Małgorzata Fic
evolutionary game theory
2024 PHD THESIS
Assessing herbicide resistance
Dana Lauenroth
antagonistic coevolution plant population genetics agriculture & food security
2023 MASTER'S THESIS
Endosymbionts, eukaryotes, and evolutionary transitions
Gaurav S. Athreya
species interactions mutualism & symbiosis microbial adaptive dynamics
2022 PHD THESIS
Eco-evolutionary dynamics of disease
Maria Bargués-Ribera
antagonistic coevolution plant epidemiological models agriculture & food security disease & health
2020 PHD THESIS
Eco-Evolutionary Interactions and their Dynamics
Vandana R. Venkateswaran
species interactions life history & sexual selection animal evolutionary game theory
2011 PHD THESIS
Evolutionary dynamics on multi-dimensional fitness landscapes
Chaitanya S. Gokhale
population dynamics evolutionary game theory population genetics
2021
Review of Game Theory in Biology by McNamara and Leimar
Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Arne Traulsen
ISBE Newsletter
evolutionary game theory
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