Gopal Murali

Publications

• Deceived by stripes: conspicuous patterning on vital anterior body parts can redirect predatory strikes to expendable posterior organs
• Development of thioflavin-modified mesoporous silica framework for amyloid fishing
• Different evolutionary dynamics led to the convergence of clinging performance in lizard toepads
• Body size and evolution of motion dazzle coloration in lizards
• Now you see me, now you don't: dynamic flash coloration as an antipredator strategy in motion
• Grab my tail: evolution of dazzle stripes and colourful tails in lizards
• What affects power to estimate speciation rate shifts?
• Dynamic colour change and the confusion effect against predation
• Erratum to “Now you see me, now you don't: dynamic flash coloration as an antipredator strategy in motion” [Animal Behaviour 142 (2018) 207–220]
• What makes motion dazzle markings effective against predation?
• Tree size and relative clade age influence estimation of speciation rate shifts
• What affects power to estimate speciation rate shifts?
• Size and unpredictable movement together affect the effectiveness of dynamic flash coloration
• Background complexity and optimal background matching camouflage
• Global determinants and conservation of evolutionary and geographic rarity in land vertebrates
• Emphasizing declining populations in the Living Planet Report
• A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates
• Future temperature extremes threaten land vertebrates
• Publisher Correction: Future temperature extremes threaten land vertebrates
• Different solutions lead to similar life history traits across the great divides of the amniote tree of life
• Chemical signalling glands are unlinked to species diversification in lizards
• Future heatwaves threaten thousands of land vertebrate species
• New locality record of Forest Spotted Gecko Cyrtodactylus (Geckoella) cf. speciosus (Beddome, 1870) (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Thanjavur, in the eastern coastal plains of Tamil Nadu, India
• Habitat heterogeneity limits prey color polymorphism maintained via negative frequency-dependent selection
• A global analysis of field body temperatures of active squamates in relation to climate and behaviour
• Global evaluation of current and future threats to drylands and their vertebrate biodiversity
• Evolution of sexual size dimorphism in tetrapods is driven by varying patterns of sex-specific selection on size
• Publisher Correction: Evolution of sexual size dimorphism in tetrapods is driven by varying patterns of sex-specific selection on size