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Last updated January 2023

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Peer Reviewed Articles
‡ denotes equal contribution
In Press

2023
15.
Murali, G., Takuya, I., Meiri, S. and Roll, U., Future temperature extremes threaten land vertebrates. 615. 461- 467. Nature.  Link
2022
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Zimin, A., Zimin, S.V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., Caetano, G.H.O., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D.G., Chirio, L., Colli, G.R., Doan, T.M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L.L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton, M., Martins, M., Morando, M., Murali, G., Nagy, Z.T., Novosolov, M., Oliver, P., Passos, P., Pauwels, O.S.G., Pincheira-Donoso, D., Ribeiro-Junior, M.A., Shea, G., Tingley, R., Torres-Carvajal, O., Trape, J.-F., Uetz, P., Wagner, P., Roll, U., Meiri, S., A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 31, no. 12 (2022): 2437 - 2452. Link


13. Murali, G.‡, Gabriel, C.‡, Barki, G.‡, Meiri, S. and Roll, U., Emphasizing declining populations in the Living Planet Report. Nature. 601(7894),pp.E20-24 Link
2021
12. Murali, G., Gumbs, R., Meiri, S. and Roll, U., 2021. Global determinants and conservation of evolutionary and geographic rarity in land vertebrates. Science Advances, 7, eabe5582. Link
Featured in: ZSL blog, New Scientist, The Jerusalem Post.


11. Meiri, S., Murali, G., Zimin, A., Shak, L., Itescu, Y., Caetano, G. and Roll, U., 2021. Different solutions lead to similar life history traits across the great divides of the amniote tree of life. Journal of Biological Research-Thessaloniki, 28(1), pp.1-17. PDF

10. Murali, G., Mallick, S. and Kodandaramaiah, U., 2021. Background complexity and optimal background matching camouflage. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 75(4), pp.1-12. Link

2020
9. Murali, G. and Kodandaramaiah, U., 2020. Size and unpredictable movement together affect the effectiveness of dynamic flash coloration. Animal Behaviour, 162, pp.87-93. Link

8. Kodandaramaiah, U., Palathingal, S., Bindu Kurup, G. and Murali, G., 2020. What makes motion dazzle markings effective against predation?. Behavioral Ecology, 31(1), pp.43-53. Link

2019
7. Murali, G., Kumari, K. and Kodandaramaiah, U., 2019. Dynamic colour change and the confusion effect against predation. Scientific reports, 9(1), pp.1-6. PDF

2018
6. Murali, G., Merilaita, S. and Kodandaramaiah, U., 2018. Grab my tail: evolution of dazzle stripes and colourful tails in lizards. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 31(11), pp.1675-1688. Link
Featured in: Nature India, Research Matters, Scroll.in.

5. Murali, G., 2018. Now you see me, now you don't: dynamic flash coloration as an antipredator strategy in motion. Animal Behaviour, 142, pp.207-220. Link

4. Murali, G. and Kodandaramaiah, U., 2018. Body size and evolution of motion dazzle coloration in lizards. Behavioral Ecology, 29(1), pp.79-86. Link
Featured in: Inside Science, Scroll.in, Listed among top cited papers for the year 2018-2019.

3. Kodandaramaiah, U.
‡ and Murali, G.‡, 2018. What affects power to estimate speciation rate shifts?. PeerJ, 6, p.e5495. PDF

2016
2. Murali, G. and Kodandaramaiah, U., 2016. Deceived by stripes: conspicuous patterning on vital anterior body parts can redirect predatory strikes to expendable posterior organs. Royal Society Open Science, 3(6), p.160057. PDF
Featured in: Science Magazine, Phys.org, Scientific American’s 60 Seconds Science Podcast, IFLScience, Mother Nature Network, Scroll.in, IndiaBioscience, Children’s book titled “The Secret of the Deceiving Striped Lizard”.

2014
1.Viswanathan, V., Murali, G., Gandhi, S., Kumaraswamy, P., Sethuraman, S. and Krishnan, U.M., 2014. Development of thioflavin-modified mesoporous silica framework for amyloid fishing. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 197, pp.40-47. Link

Natural history notes and digests
4. Murali, G., 2022. Use of Guar (Bos gaurus) dung as a foraging site by Sarojamma's Leaping Frog (Indirana sarojamma). Reptiles and Amphibians. 29(1),pp 59-60. PDF

3. Murali, G. and Melvinselvan, G., 2021.Atretium schistosum (Olive Keelback Watersnake). Color polymorphism. Herpetological Review, 52 (1), 146. PDF

2. Melvinselvan, G., Nibedita, D. and Murali, G., 2018. Observations on the reproduction and feeding habit of a rare colubrid, Indian bridal Snake Lycodon nympha Daudin 1803 (Serpentes: Colubridae) from Southern India. Captive & Field Herpetology, 2(1), pp.16-22. PDF

1. Tiatragul, S.
‡, Murali, G.‡ and Stroud, J.T., 2017. Digest: Different evolutionary dynamics led to the convergence of clinging performance in lizard toepads. Evolution, 71(10), pp.2537-2538. PDF

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