Pillai, Rishab Rajan, Bertola, Lorenzo Vincenzo, and Alford, Ross A. (2025) Toes up! Digital hyperextension of adhesive toepads in frogs. Ecology, 106 (12). e70272.

Pillai, Rishab Rajan, Riedel, Jendrian, Wirth, Wytamma, Allen-Ankins, Slade, Nordberg, Eric, Edwards, Will, and Schwarzkopf, Lin (2025) What's the point? The functional role of claws in pad-bearing taxa (Gekkota: Diplodactylidae). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences, 292 (2054). 20251362.

Pillai, Rishab Rajan (2024) Sticky fingers: the functional morphology of the locomotor apparatus in geckos (Gekkota: Diplodactylidae). PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Pillai, Rishab R., Riedel, Jendrian, and Schwarzkopf, Lin (2023) The role of ecdysis in repair of an attachment system: a case study using geckos. Journal of Experimental Biology, 226 (10). jeb245286.

Fushida, Ayano, Riedel, Jendrian, Nordberg, Eric J., Pillai, Rishab, and Schwarzkopf, Lin (2020) Can geckos increase shedding rate to remove fouling? Herpetologica, 76 (1). pp. 22-26.

Pillai, Rishab, Nordberg, Eric, Riedel, Jendrian, and Schwarzkopf, Lin (2020) Geckos cling best to, and prefer to use, rough surfaces. Frontiers in Zoology, 17. 32.

Pillai, Rishab, Nordberg, Eric, Riedel, Jendrian, and Schwarzkopf, Lin (2020) Nonlinear variation in clinging performance with surface roughness in geckos. Ecology and Evolution, 10 (5). pp. 2597-2607.