Work on Greater One Horned Rhino (Rhinoceros unicornis)

In order to undertake multi-disciplinary research of Indian rhinoceros, including population genetics, we have established collaboration with

1. Dr. Terry L. Roth, Director and Dr. Monica Stoops, Reproductive Physiologist, Center for Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife (CREW), Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, USA.
2. Dr. Benoit Goossens, Director, Danau Girang Field Centre, Sabah Wildlife Department, Sabah, Malaysia.

Work on Bird Phylogenetics

Wildlife Genetics Laboratory (WGL), Aaranyak is a collaborator in a joint project undertaken by University of Chicago, USA and Wildlife Institute of India, on the analysis of regional variation in bird species diversity along the Himalayas. The Principal Investigators of this project are Prof. Trevor Price, University of Chicago and Dr. Dhananjai Mohan and Mr. Pratap Singh, Wildlife Institute of India.  Mr. Udayan Borthakur from Aaranyak is actively involved in the molecular phylogenetic aspects of this project, in generating sequences of 2000 base pairs of mitochondrial DNA for more than 400 species of Himalayan Passerines. Sequencing is been carried out from museum specimen in the USA (Price Laboratory, University of Chicago) and field collected feather samples in India (Conservation Genetics Laboratory, Wildlife Institute of India and Wildlife Genetics Laboratory, Aaranyak).

Other people involved with this international project are Bettina Harr, Max Planck Institute in Ploen, Germany and dieter Thomas Tietze, Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago.