Dr. Pavle Erić from the Department of Population Genetics and Ecogenotoxicology has received the "Insects 2022 Best Paper Award" from the journal Insects. The paper, titled "Temperature-Specific and Sex-Specific Fitness Effects of Sympatric Mitochondrial and Mito-Nuclear Variation in Drosophila obscura," co-authored with dr. Aleksandra Patenković, Katarina Erić, dr. Marija Tanasković, dr. Slobodan Davidović, Mina Rakić, Marija Savić Veselinović, Marina Stamenković-Radak, and Mihailo Jelić, was recognized as one of the three best papers published in this journal in 2022.

The award was determined by the committee based on an overall evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, considering citations and downloads.