Research Papers

• Ram, R., Pavan-Kumar, A., Jaiswar, A.K., Gireesh-Babu, P., Krishna, G and Chaudhari, A. (2020). Identification of Fish and Shellfish Larvae from Mangroves using DNA Barcodes. Journal of Coastal Research, DOI: 10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-19-00172.1.
• Gangan, S., Pavan-Kumar, A., Jahageerdar, S. and Jaiswar, A.K. (2020). A new species of Stolephorus (Clupeiformes: Engraulidae) from the Bay of Bengal, India. Zootaxa, 4743 (4):561-574
• Kalia, N., Pavan-Kumar, A., Phukan, B., Chaudhari, A. and Nagpure, N.S. (2020). Genetic Diversity of Vulnerable Assamese Kingfish, Cyprinion semiplotum (McClelland, 1839), Inferred from Mitochondrial DNA Marker. National Academy Science Letters, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40009-020-00905-3.
• Gangan, S.S., Pavan-Kumar, A. and Jaiswar, A.K. (2019) Multigene barcoding and Phylogeny of selected Engraulidae species. Mitochondrial DNA Part A, 30: 3, 548-555.
• Mary, A.S., Jayachandran, K.V., Landge, A.T., Gladston, Y. and Pavan-Kumar, A. (2019). Establishment of taxonomic status of Macrobrachium indicum Jayachandran & Joseph (Decapoda : Palaemonidae) through molecular characterization with a note on related species. Zootaxa, 4652 (1): 174-182.
• Haldar, C., Das, S.P., Pillai, B.R., Pavan-Kumar, A., Gireesh-Babu, P., Das, P. and Chaudhari, A. (2019). Single-nucleotide polymorphisms linked to body weight revealed in growth selected Macrobrachium rosenbergii. Aquaculture International,27: 497-508.
• Acharya, A.P., Pavan-Kumar, A., Gireesh-Babu, P., Joshi, C.G., Chaudhari, A. and Krishna, G. (2019). Population genetics of Indian giant river-catfish, Sperata seenghala (Sykes, 1839) using microsatellite markers. Aquatic Living Resources, 32: 4, https://doi. org/10. 1051/alr/2019002
• Daniel, N., Pavan-Kumar, A., Kathirvelpandian, A., Praveenraj, J., Damroy, S. and Chaudhari, A. (2019). First record of whitebarred goby Amblygobius phalaena (Valenciennes, 1837) from Indian waters. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 65(3): 116-121.
• Pavan-Kumar, A, Kumar R, Pitale P, Shen KN, Borsa P (2018). Neotrygon indica sp. nov., the Indian Ocean blue-spotted maskray (Myliobatoidei, Dasyatidae). Comptes rendus biologies, 341(2):120-130.
• Himanshu, P., Das, R., Pavan-Kumar, A., Gireesh-Babu, P., Javed, H., Kumar, S., Marappan, M., Somdutt., Krishna, G. and Chaudhari, A. (2017). Silencing and augmentation of IAG hormone transcripts in adult Macrobrachium rosenbergii males affects morphotype transformation. Journal of Experimental Biology, 220: 4101-4108.
• Sadurudeen, N., Pavan-Kumar, A. Raman S, Koringa PG, Patel N, Shah T, Singh RK, Krishna G, Joshi CG, Gireesh-Babu P and Chaudhari A (2016) Complete mitochondrial genome of threatened mahseer Tor tor (Hamilton 1822) and its phylogenetic relationship within Cyprinidae family. Journal of Genetics, 95, 853–863.
• Kumari, P., Pavan-Kumar, A., Kumar, G., Alam, A., Parhi, J., Gireesh-Babu, P. Chaudhari, A. and Krishna, G. (2016). Genetic diversity and demographic history of the giant river-catfish Sperata seenghala. Mitochondrial DNA Part A, 28:6, 920-926.
• Agarwal, D., Nilav, A., Pavan-Kumar, A., Kumar, S., Sabnis, S., Joshi, C.G., Koringa, P., Pandya, D., Patel, N., Karnik, T., Bhingarde, R., Gireesh-Babu, P. and Chaudhari, A. (2016). SNP mining in transcripts and concomitant estimation of genetic variation in Macrobrachium rosenbergii stocks. Conservation Genetics Resources, 8: 159-168.
• Tambireddy, N., Tripathi, G., Gireesh-Babu, P. and Pavan-Kumar, A. (2016). Molecular characterization and phylogeny of some mazocraeidean monogeneans from carangid fish. Acta Parasitologica, 61(2): 360–368.
• Pavan-Kumar, A., Gireesh-Babu, P., Babu, P.P., Jaiswar, A.K., Hari Krishna, V., Prasasd, K.P., Chaudhari, A., Raje, S.G., Chakraborty, S.K., Krishna, G. and Lakra, W.S. (2018) Molecular phylogeny of elasmobranchs inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear markers. Molecular Biology Reports, 44(1): 447-457.
• Pavan-Kumar,A, Gireesh-Babu P, Babu PP, Jaiswar AK, Prasad KP, Chaudhari A, Raje SG, Chakraborty SK, Krishna G, Lakra WS. (2015). DNA barcoding of elasmobranchs from Indian coast and its reliability in delineating geographically widespread specimens. Mitochondrial DNA 26(1): 92-100.
• Nagalakshmi, K., Pavan-Kumar, A., Venkateshwarlu, G., Gireesh-Babu, P. and Lakra, W.S. (2016). Mislabeling in Indian seafood: An investigation using DNA barcoding. Food Control, 59: 196-200.
• Vartak, V.R., Rajendran, N., Pavan-Kumar, A., Singh, D.P. and Lakra, W.S. 2014. DNA barcoding detected improper labelling and supersession of crab food served by restaurants in India. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 95 (2): 359-366.
• Viswambharan, D., Pavan-Kumar, A., Singh, D.P., Jaiswar, A.K., Chakraborty, S.K., Nair, R and Lakra, W.S. 2013. DNA barcoding of gobiid fishes (Perciformes, Gobioidei). Mitochondrial DNA Part A, 26: 15‐19.

Other Publications

Book Chapters

• Pavan-Kumar, A., Gireesh-Babu P., Jaiswar A.K., Chaudhari A., Krishna G., Lakra W.S. (2016) DNA Barcoding of Marine Fishes: Prospects and Challenges. In: Trivedi S., Ansari A., Ghosh S., Rehman H. (eds) DNA Barcoding in Marine Perspectives. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org /10.1007/ 978-3-319-41840-7_17

• Conservation of Indian Mega Fish: Molecular Taxonomy and Phylogeography of Mahseer fishes of India (PI; Funding agency: DST-SERB)
• Identification of Most Suitable Population of Pearl producing Freshwater Bivalves of North East India Through a Molecular Approach (Co-PI; DBT)
• Molecular and genetic characterization of selected important ornamental fishes of North East India (Co-PI, DBT)
• DNA Barcoding and Domestication of Ornamental Fishes of the Chindwin and Barak-Surma-Meghna River basins of Northeast India (Co-PI, DBT)

Awards/honours

• Recipient of “Best Young Faculty award” from ICAR-CIFE for the year 2015.