Rahul De, PhD (Wildlife Science)

Postdoctoral Research Associate


Curriculum vitae


[email protected]; [email protected]


Department of Biological Sciences

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409



Publications



Lead author publications


Conservation implications of high gene flow and lack of pronounced spatial genetic structure in elephants supported by contiguous suitable habitat in north-western India


Rahul De, Reeta Sharma, Sujeet Kumar Singh, Rita Rasteiro, Ranjana Bhaskar, Imran Khan, Rajapandian Kanagaraj, Kashmira Kakati, Parag Nigam, A Christy Williams, others

Conservation Science and Practice, 2024, pp. e13075


Identifying sex and individual from faecal DNA of the Asian elephant using a single multiplex PCR for population monitoring


Rahul De, Reeta Sharma, Parag Nigam, Amirtharaj Christy Williams, Bilal Habib, Surendra Prakash Goyal

Conservation Genetics Resources, vol. 15, 2023, pp. 163--173


Beyond consensus genotyping: a case study on the Asian elephant Elephas maximus


Rahul De, Parag Nigam, A Christy Williams, Surendra Prakash Goyal

Conservation Genetics Resources, 2022 Sep 16, pp. 1-9


Conservation importance of the strategic, centrally located snow leopard population in the western Himalayas, India: a genetic perspective


Sujeet Kumar Singh*, Rahul De*, Reeta Sharma, Aishwarya Maheshwari, Bheem Dutt Joshi, Diwakar Sharma, Sambandam Sathyakumar, Bilal Habib, Surendra Prakash Goyal, * Equal contributions

Mammalian Biology, 2022 Jul 26, pp. 1-13


Pan-India population genetics signifies the importance of habitat connectivity for wild Asian elephant conservation


Rahul De, Reeta Sharma, Priya Davidar, N Arumugam, Arulmozhi Sedhupathy, Jean-Philippe Puyravaud, K Muthamizh Selvan, PP Abdul Rahim, Swati Udayraj, Jyotirmayee Parida, Dinesh Kumar Digal, Rajapandian Kanagaraj, Kashmira Kakati, Parag Nigam, A Christy Williams, Bilal Habib, Surendra Prakash Goyal

Global Ecology and Conservation, vol. 32, 2021 Oct, pp. e01888


Cross-amplification of ungulate microsatellite markers in the endemic Indian antelope or blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) for population monitoring and conservation genetics studies in south Asia


Rahul De, Vinay Kumar, Kumar Ankit, Khursid Alam Khan, Himanshu Kumar, Nirmal Kumar, Bilal Habib, Surendra Prakash Goyal

Molecular Biology Reports, vol. 48, 2021 Jul, pp. 5151-5160


Multi-gene mtDNA primers for use with non-invasive sampling of Asian elephants


Rahul De, Parag Nigam, A Christy Williams, Surendra Prakash Goyal

Gajah, vol. 52, 2020 Oct, pp. 24-29


Understanding predation behaviour of the tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) in Ranthambore tiger Reserve, Rajasthan, India: use of low-cost gel based molecular sexing of prey hairs from scats


Rahul De, Bheem Dutt Joshi, Malay Shukla, Puneet Pandey, Randeep Singh, Surendra Prakash Goyal

Conservation Genetics Resources, vol. 11, Springer Netherlands, 2019 Jan, pp. 97-104


Other peer-reviewed publications


Predicting the impact of climate change on range and genetic diversity patterns of the endangered endemic Nilgiri tahr (Nilgiritragus hylocrius) in the western Ghats, India


Rajapandian Kanagaraj, Bheem Dutt Joshi, Rahul De, MA Predit, Sujeet K Singh, Puneet Pandey, Vinay Kumar, Vipin Sharma, M Kumar, Rakesh Matura, others

Landscape Ecology, 2023, pp. 1--17


Connect elephant habitats in Asia


Priya Davidar, Reeta Sharma, Shermin de Silva, Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz, Benoit Goossens, Jean-Philippe Puyravaud, Bilal Habib, Rahul De, Ee Phin Wong, Dinesh Neupane, Nurzhafarina Binti Othman, Surendra Prakash Goyal

Science, vol. 379, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2023 Feb, pp. 765-765


Fencing Can Alter Gene Flow of Asian Elephant Populations within Protected Areas


Jean-Philippe Puyravaud, Samuel A Cushman, P Anuradha Reddy, Durairaj Boominathan, Reeta Sharma, Neelakantan Arumugam, Kanagaraj Muthamizh Selvan, Nagarathinam Mohanraj, Sedupathy Arulmozhi, Abdul Rahim, Tamanna Kalam, Rahul De, Swati Udayraj, Andrea Luis, Muneer Ul Islam Najar, Kothandapani Raman, Bawa Mothilal Krishnakumar, Surendra Prakash Goyal, Priya Davidar

Conservation, vol. 2, MDPI, 2022 Nov, pp. 709-725


Mitochondrial cytochrome b indicates the presence of two paraphyletic diverged lineages of the blue sheep Pseudois nayaur across the Indian Himalaya: conservation implications


Bheem Dutt Joshi, Vinay Kumar, Rahul De, Reeta Sharma, Ankita Bhattacharya, Stanzin Dolker, Ranjana Pal, Ved Prakash Kumar, Sambandam Sathyakumar, Bhupendra Singh Adhikari, Bilal Habib, Surendra Prakash Goyal

Molecular Biology Reports, 2022 Sep 12, pp. 1-10


Genetic characterisation of fragmented Asian elephant populations with one recent extinction in its eastern-central Indian range


Jyotirmayee Parida, Reeta Sharma, Rahul De, Tamanna Kalam, A Sedhupathy, Dinesh Kumar Digal, P Anuradha Reddy, Surendra Prakash Goyal, Jean-philippe Puyravaud, Priya Davidar

Ecological Genetics and Genomics, vol. 24, 2022 Jul 28, p. 100132


Jungle cat activity in a human-dominated agricultural landscape, India


Athar Noor, Aimon Bushra, Ravi Kumar Sharma, Sultan, Rahul De, Surendra Prakash Goyal, Bilal Habib

Cat News, vol. 73, 2021 Jul, pp. 12-13


Predicting range shifts of Asian elephants under global change


Rajapandian Kanagaraj, Miguel B Araujo, Rathin Barman, Priya Davidar, Rahul De, Dinesh K Digal, GV Gopi, AJT Johnsingh, Kashmira Kakati, Stephanie Kramer‐Schadt, Babu R Lamichhane, Salvador Lyngdoh, MD Madhusudan, Muneer Ul Islam Najar, Jyotirmayee Parida, Narendra MB Pradhan, Jean‐Philippe Puyravaud, R Raghunath, PP Abdul Rahim, K Muthamizh Selvan, Naresh Subedi, Antonio Trabucco, Swati Udayraj, Thorsten Wiegand, A Christy Williams, Surendra Prakash Goyal

Diversity and Distributions, vol. 25, 2019, pp. 822-838


Utility and applicability of universal set of primers in identifying sex of South and Southeast Asian mammals


Bheem Dutt Joshi, Rahul De, Surendra Prakash Goyal

Zoological Studies, vol. 58, 2019 Sep, pp. 1-8


Palghat gap reveals presence of two diverged populations of Nilgiri tahr (Nilgiritragus hylocrius) in Western Ghats, India


Bheem Dutt Joshi, Rakesh Matura, Predit MA, Rahul De, Bivash Pandav, Vipin Sharma, Parag Nigam, Surendra Prakash Goyal

Mitochondrial DNA Part B, vol. 3, 2018 Feb, pp. 245-249


Phylogeography of freshwater fish Puntius sophore in India


RK Negi, Bheem Dutt Joshi, JA Johnson, Rahul De, Surendra Prakash Goyal

Mitochondrial DNA Part A, vol. 29, 2018 Jan, pp. 256-265

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