Dr. Vikas Kumar
Scientist-E
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Dr. Vikas Kumar Scientist-E |
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Highest Academic degree, year |
Ph.D. (Zoology),2004 |
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Department/Division |
Centre for DNA Taxonomy, Molecular Systematics Division |
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Email Address |
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Phone Number |
9674944233 |
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Area of Expertise |
Molecular Systematics, Evolutionary Ecology & Genomics, Metasystematics |
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Experience after Ph. D. |
19 years |
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Significant Achievements |
<!-- [if !supportLists]-->- <!--[endif]-->Discovered of New Taxa <!-- [if !supportLists]-->- <!--[endif]-->DNA barcoding of faunal elements of India <!-- [if !supportLists]-->- <!--[endif]-->Evolutionary Metasystematics <!-- [if !supportLists]-->- <!--[endif]-->Species evolutionary interactions |
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Mentorship |
Supervised 04 PhD students |
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Research Focus |
- Species Discovery, molecular interactions and dynamics - Molecular taxonomy of Insects - Mitochondrial Genomicsand Molecular Phylogenetics -- Environmental Metagenomics |
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Publications
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140 research papers in SCI journals -Tyagi, K.,Kumar, V.,Singha, D., Chandra, K., Laskar, B.A., Kundu, S., Chakraborty, R., Chatterjee, S. (2017) DNA Barcoding studies on Thrips in India: Cryptic species, Species complexes. Scientific Reports, 4898, 7:1-14. -Pal, S., Kumar, V., Panjaliya, R.K. and Tyagi, K., 2022. A new genus and species of subfamily Dendrothripinae (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) from India. Zootaxa, 5175(3), pp.383-388. -Tyagi, I., Tyagi, K., Bhutiani, R., Chandra, K. and Kumar, V., 2021. Bacterial diversity assessment of world’s largest sewage-fed fish farms with special reference to water quality: a Ramsar site. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, pp.1-15. -Pakrashi, A., Kumar, V., Stanford-Beale, D.A., Cameron, S.L. and Tyagi, K., 2022. Gene arrangement, phylogeny and divergence time estimation of mitogenomes in Thrips. Molecular Biology Reports, pp.1-15. -Tyagi, K., Tyagi I. &Kumar, V. 2021. Interspecific variation and functional traits of the gut microbiome in spiders from the wild: The largest effort so far. PLoS ONE 16(7): e0251790. |
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