• Laasya Samhita* Re-reading the genetic code: the evolutionary potential of frameshifting in time, 2022, Journal of Biosciences doi

• Laasya Samhita* Parth K Raval#, Godwin Stephenson#, Shashi Thutupalli, Deepa Agashe* Mistranslation impacts phenotypic variability and fitness, 2021, Evolution, doi

• Laasya Samhita* The Boggarts of Biology: How non-genetic changes influence the genotype, Current Genetics. 2020, doi

• Laasya Samhita*, Parth K Raval and Deepa Agashe*, Global mistranslation increases cell survival under stress in Escherichia coli, PLoS Genetics. 2020, doi (Featured on the cover page of the April issue, recommended by F1000)

• Laasya Samhita, Vidyanand Nanjundiah and Umesh Varshney*, How many initiator tRNA genes does Escherichia coli need? Journal of Bacteriology. 2014,196:2607-15, doi

• Laasya Samhita* and Hans Gross*, The “Clever Hans Phenomenon” revisited, Communicative and Integrative Biology. 2013, 6:e27122 doi

• Laasya Samhita, Kai Virumae, Jaanus Remme and Umesh Varshney*, Initiation with elongator tRNAs, Journal of Bacteriology. 2013, 95:4202-9 , doi

• Laasya Samhita, Sunil Shetty and Umesh Varshney*. Unconventional initiator tRNAs sustain Escherichia coli, PNAS. 2012, 109: 18058-18068, doi

• Suman Kapoor, Laasya Samhita and Umesh Varshney*, Functional significance of an evolutionarily conserved alanine (GCA) resume codon in tmRNA in Escherichia coli, Journal of Bacteriology. 2011, 193: 3569-3576, doi

• Anuradha Seshadri, Laasya Samhita, Rahul Gaur, Vidyasagar Malashetty and Umesh Varshney*. Analysis of the fusA2 locus encoding EFG-2 in Mycobacterium smegmatis, Tuberculosis. 2009, 89: 453-464, doi

• Selected popular review pieces

• Laasya Samhita and Umesh Varshney, The Ribosome and the 2009 Nobel prize in Chemistry, Resonance. 2010, 526-537

• Laasya Samhita, The Handicap Principle, Resonance, 2010 (reprinted in 2022 as part of a 75 years of independence special issue)

• Selected popular science articles (See Outreach for more)

   

• https://news.ncbs.res.in/research/mistakes-can-be-good (2020)

• https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/dont-mourn-the-y-chromosome (2014)

• https://www.deccanherald.com/content/349268/what-means-98-pc-chimpanzee.html (2013)

• https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24784-turning-back-time-ageing-reversed-in-mice/ (2013)

                                                                                           * Corresponding author, # equal authorship