Faculty of Life Sciences

2024

Amylopectinosis of the fatal epilepsy Lafora disease resists autophagic glycogen catabolism

Wu, J., Kakhlon, O., Weil, M., Lossos, A. & Minassian, B. A., 16 May 2024, In: EMBO Molecular Medicine. 16, 5, p. 1047-1050 4 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

Open Access

1 Scopus citations

Reply to: Embracing the taxonomic and topological stability of phylogenomics

Lee, H., Lee, K. S., Hsu, C. H., Lee, C. W., Li, C. E., Wang, J. K., Tseng, C. C., Chen, W. J., Horng, C. C., Ford, C. T., Kroh, A., Bronstein, O., Tanaka, H., Oji, T., Lin, J. P. & Janies, D., Dec 2024, In: Scientific Reports. 14, 1, 4094.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

Open Access

1 Scopus citations

Reply to Santini et al. Total population reports are necessary for global biomass estimation of wild mammals

Greenspoon, L., Rosenberg, Y., Meiri, S., Roll, U., Noor, E. & Milo, R., 2024, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 121, 4, e2316314121.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

Open Access

2023

C-terminal conformational changes in SCF-D3/MAX2 ubiquitin ligase are required for KAI2-mediated signaling

Tal, L., Guercio, A. M., Varshney, K., Young, A., Gutjahr, C. & Shabek, N., Sep 2023, In: New Phytologist. 239, 6, p. 2067-2075 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

Open Access

4 Scopus citations

PloiDB: the plant ploidy database

Halabi, K., Shafir, A. & Mayrose, I., Nov 2023, In: New Phytologist. 240, 3, p. 918-927 10 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

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5 Scopus citations

Save the microbes to save the planet. A call to action of the International Union of the Microbiological Societies (IUMS)

Rappuoli, R., Young, P., Ron, E., Pecetta, S. & Pizza, M., 6 Mar 2023, In: One Health Outlook. 5, 1, 5 p., 5.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

Sea squirts adventures

Shenkar, N., Nov 2023, In: Genesis (United States). 61, 6, e23560.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

Open Access

2022

Emphasizing declining populations in the Living Planet Report

Murali, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Barki, G., Meiri, S. & Roll, U., 27 Jan 2022, In: Nature. 601, 7894, p. E20-E24

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

25 Scopus citations

Reply to Antibiotic Use Patterns in the Management of Chronic Pouchitis

Bar, N., Dubinsky, V., Gophna, U. & Dotan, I., 1 Jul 2022, In: Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. 28, 7, p. E94

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

Revisiting life history and morphological proxies for early mammaliaform metabolic rates

Meiri, S. & Levin, E., 23 Sep 2022, In: Nature Communications. 13, 1, p. 5562 1 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

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1 Scopus citations

2021

Auxin does not inhibit endocytosis of PIN1 and PIN2 auxin efflux carriers

Schwechheimer, C., Yalovsky, S. & Zársky, V., Jun 2021, In: Plant Physiology. 186, 2, p. 808-811 4 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

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1 Scopus citations

Excess pneumonia and influenza death as herald wave of COVID-19 in England and Wales, United Kingdom

Li, C., Zhang, X., Zhu, Y., Lin, Q., Zhao, S., Yang, L., Li, X., He, D. & Stone, L., Feb 2021, In: Journal of Infection. 82, 2, p. 282-327 46 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

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2 Scopus citations

Science may be better served by sticking to scientific issues rather than by calling authors holding different opinions names

Meiri, S., Ribeiro, M. A. & Fouquet, A., 29 Sep 2021, In: Zootaxa. 5047, 2, p. 195-196 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

Stop using 'master-slave' terminology in biology

Graur, D., 1 May 2021, In: Nature. 593, 7858, p. 195 1 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

2020

Focus on snake ecology to fight snakebite

Murray, K. A., Martin, G. & Iwamura, T., 25 Jan 2020, In: The Lancet. 395, 10220, p. e14

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

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23 Scopus citations

Reply

Dubinsky, V., Gophna, U. & Dotan, I., Jul 2020, In: Gastroenterology. 159, 1, p. 401-402 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

Reply to Balsa-Canto et al. Growth models are applicable to growth data, not to stationary-phase data

Ram, Y., Obolski, U., Feldman, M. W., Berman, J. & Hadany, L., 14 Jan 2020, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 117, 2, p. 814-815 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

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3 Scopus citations

Understanding ecosystems of the future will require more than realistic climate change experiments – A response to Korell et al.

De Boeck, H. J., Bloor, J. M. G., Aerts, R., Bahn, M., Beier, C., Emmett, B. A., Estiarte, M., Grünzweig, J. M., Halbritter, A. H., Holub, P., Jentsch, A., Klem, K., Kreyling, J., Kröel-Dulay, G., Larsen, K. S., Milcu, A., Roy, J., Sigurdsson, B. D., Smith, M. D. & Sternberg, M. & 4 others, Vandvik, V., Wohlgemuth, T., Nijs, I. & Knapp, A. K., 1 Feb 2020, In: Global Change Biology. 26, 2, p. e6-e7

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

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15 Scopus citations

2019

On the issue of transparency and reproducibility in nanomedicine

Leong, H. S., Butler, K. S., Brinker, C. J., Azzawi, M., Conlan, S., Dufés, C., Owen, A., Rannard, S., Scott, C., Chen, C., Dobrovolskaia, M. A., Kozlov, S. V., Prina-Mello, A., Schmid, R., Wick, P., Caputo, F., Boisseau, P., Crist, R. M., McNeil, S. E. & Fadeel, B. & 58 others, Tran, L., Hansen, S. F., Hartmann, N. B., Clausen, L. P. W., Skjolding, L. M., Baun, A., Ågerstrand, M., Gu, Z., Lamprou, D. A., Hoskins, C., Huang, L., Song, W., Cao, H., Liu, X., Jandt, K. D., Jiang, W., Kim, B. Y. S., Wheeler, K. E., Chetwynd, A. J., Lynch, I., Moghimi, S. M., Nel, A., Xia, T., Weiss, P. S., Sarmento, B., das Neves, J., Santos, H. A., Santos, L., Mitragotri, S., Little, S., Peer, D., Amiji, M. M., Alonso, M. J., Petri-Fink, A., Balog, S., Lee, A., Drasler, B., Rothen-Rutishauser, B., Wilhelm, S., Acar, H., Harrison, R. G., Mao, C., Mukherjee, P., Ramesh, R., McNally, L. R., Busatto, S., Wolfram, J., Bergese, P., Ferrari, M., Fang, R. H., Zhang, L., Zheng, J., Peng, C., Du, B., Yu, M., Charron, D. M., Zheng, G. & Pastore, C., 1 Jul 2019, In: Nature Nanotechnology. 14, 7, p. 629-635 7 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

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158 Scopus citations

2018

Anagenesis and Cladogenesis Are Useful Island Biogeography Terms

Meiri, S., Raia, P. & Santos, A. M. C., Dec 2018, In: Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 33, 12, p. 895-896 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

5 Scopus citations

Diet-induced mating preference in Drosophila

Rosenberg, E., Zilber-Rosenberg, I., Sharon, G. & Segal, D., 6 Mar 2018, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115, 10, p. E2153

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

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10 Scopus citations

Ex vivo recordings reveal desert locust forelimb control is asymmetric

Knebel, D., Rillich, J., Ayali, A., Pflüger, H. J. & Rigosi, E., 19 Nov 2018, In: Current Biology. 28, 22, p. R1290-R1291

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

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7 Scopus citations

2017

Addressing reproducibility in single-laboratory phenotyping experiments

Kafkafi, N., Golani, I., Jaljuli, I., Morgan, H., Sarig, T., Würbel, H., Yaacoby, S. & Benjamini, Y., 27 Apr 2017, In: Nature Methods. 14, 5, p. 462-464 3 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

35 Scopus citations

Paediatric use of melatonin: Letter to the Editor regarding the manuscript “Current role of melatonin in pediatric neurology:Clinical recommendations” by Bruni et al. Eur J Paediatr Neurol. 2015 Mar;19(2):122–33.

Zisapel, N., 1 Mar 2017, In: European Journal of Paediatric Neurology. 21, 2, p. 418-419 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

2 Scopus citations

Species richness effects on grassland recovery from drought depend on community productivity in a multisite experiment

Kreyling, J., Dengler, J., Walter, J., Velev, N., Ugurlu, E., Sopotlieva, D., Ransijn, J., Picon-Cochard, C., Nijs, I., Hernandez, P., Güler, B., von Gillhaussen, P., De Boeck, H. J., Bloor, J. M. G., Berwaers, S., Beierkuhnlein, C., Arfin Khan, M. A. S., Apostolova, I., Altan, Y. & Zeiter, M. & 7 others, Wellstein, C., Sternberg, M., Stampfli, A., Campetella, G., Bartha, S., Bahn, M. & Jentsch, A., Nov 2017, In: Ecology Letters. 20, 11, p. 1405-1413 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

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88 Scopus citations

2016

First record of the Indo-Pacific areolate grouper Epinephelus areolatus (Forsskål, 1775) (Perciformes: Epinephelidae) in the Mediterranean Sea

Rothman, S. B. S., Stern, N. & Goren, M., 25 Jan 2016, In: Zootaxa. 4067, 4, p. 479-483 5 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

20 Scopus citations

Hydrotropism: Root Bending Does Not Require Auxin Redistribution

Shkolnik, D., Krieger, G., Nuriel, R. & Fromm, H., 2 May 2016, In: Molecular Plant. 9, 5, p. 757-759 3 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

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48 Scopus citations

Non-keratinocyte SNAP29 influences epidermal differentiation and hair follicle formation in mice

Schiller, S. A., Seebode, C., Wieser, G. L., Goebbels, S., Ruhwedel, T., Horowitz, M., Rapaport, D., Sarig, O., Sprecher, E. & Emmert, S., 1 Aug 2016, In: Experimental Dermatology. 25, 8, p. 647-649 3 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

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7 Scopus citations

Platelet mimicry: The emperor's new clothes?

Moghimi, S. M., Hunter, A. C. & Peer, D., 1 Jan 2016, In: Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine. 12, 1, p. 245-248 4 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

22 Scopus citations

Reply

Naftali, T., Reshef, L., Kovacs, A., Porat, R., Amir, I., Konikoff, F. M. & Gophna, U., 1 May 2016, In: Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. 22, 5, p. E15-E16

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

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2015

Bats regulate biosonar based on the availability of visual information

Danilovich, S., Krishnan, A., Lee, W. J., Borrisov, I., Eitan, O., Kosa, G., Moss, C. F. & Yovel, Y., 7 Dec 2015, In: Current Biology. 25, 23, p. R1124-R1125

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

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43 Scopus citations

Methods for studying polyploid diversification and the dead end hypothesis: A reply to Soltis et al. (2014)

Mayrose, I., Zhan, S. H., Rothfels, C. J., Arrigo, N., Barker, M. S., Rieseberg, L. H. & Otto, S. P., 1 Apr 2015, In: New Phytologist. 206, 1, p. 27-35 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

70 Scopus citations

Response to the comments on the paper by Horowitz et al. (2014)

Horowitz, A., Barazany, D., Tavor, I., Yovel, G. & Assaf, Y., 1 May 2015, In: Brain Structure and Function. 220, 3, p. 1791-1792 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

8 Scopus citations

Safety of melatonin

Zisapel, N., 1 Aug 2015, In: Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. 51, 8, p. 840-841 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

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3 Scopus citations

The Chromosome Counts Database (CCDB) - a community resource of plant chromosome numbers

Rice, A., Glick, L., Abadi, S., Einhorn, M., Kopelman, N. M., Salman-Minkov, A., Mayzel, J., Chay, O. & Mayrose, I., 1 Apr 2015, In: New Phytologist. 206, 1, p. 19-26 8 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

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540 Scopus citations

2014

Combined transcriptomics and metabolomics of arabidopsis thaliana seedlings exposed to exogenous gaba suggest its role in plants is predominantly metabolic

Batushansky, A., Kirma, M., Grillich, N., Toubiana, D., Anh Pham, P., Balbo, I., Fromm, H., Galili, G., Fernie, A. R. & Fait, A., Jun 2014, In: Molecular Plant. 7, 6, p. 1065-1068 4 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

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61 Scopus citations

2013

Species richness can decrease with altitude but not with habitat diversity

Hortal, J., Carrascal, L. M., Triantis, K. A., Theb́ault, E., Meiri, S. & Sfenthourakis, S., 11 Jun 2013, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 110, 24, p. E2149-E2150

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

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62 Scopus citations

2012

opinion: Habitat data resolution and the detection of species interactions

Cooper, N. & Belmaker, J., 1 Apr 2012, In: Frontiers of Biogeography. 2, 2, p. 46

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

2011

Beekeeping in Oman

Eisikowitch, D., Nov 2011, In: American Bee Journal. 151, 11, p. 1018 1 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

Schizomyia botellus n.sp. - A new bud galling species from Apiaceae in Israel

Dorchin, N. & Freidberg, A., 7 Dec 2011, In: Zootaxa. 3122, p. 68 1 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

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1 Scopus citations

Two conflicting NHE1 model structures: Compatibility with experimental data and implications for the transport mechanism

Schushan, M., Landau, M., Padan, E. & Ben-Tal, N., 27 May 2011, In: Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286, 21, p. le9

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

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11 Scopus citations

2010

Life in science. Lab family feud.

Chamovitz, D. A., 26 Nov 2010, In: Science. 330, 6008, p. 1177 1 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

Minimum information about a protein affinity reagent (MIAPAR)

Bourbeillon, J., Orchard, S., Benhar, I., Borrebaeck, C., De Daruvar, A., Dübel, S., Frank, R., Gibson, F., Gloriam, D., Haslam, N., Hiltker, T., Humphrey-Smith, I., Hust, M., Juncker, D., Koegl, M., Konthur, Z., Korn, B., Krobitsch, S., Muyldermans, S. & Nygren, P. Å. & 14 others, Palcy, S., Polic, B., Rodriguez, H., Sawyer, A., Schlapshy, M., Snyder, M., Stoevesandt, O., Taussig, M. J., Templin, M., Uhlen, M., Van Der Maarel, S., Wingren, C., Hermjakob, H. & Sherman, D., Jul 2010, In: Nature Biotechnology. 28, 7, p. 650-653 4 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

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38 Scopus citations

Models of mania: From facets to domains and from animal models to model animals

Flaisher-Grinberg, S., Kronfeld-Schor, N. & Einat, H., Mar 2010, In: Journal of Psychopharmacology. 24, 3, p. 437-438 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

21 Scopus citations

On otter spraints, the advancement of science, and analogies: A reply to Calzada et al.

Guter, A., Dolev, A., Saltz, D. & Kronfeld-Schor, N., Mar 2010, In: Ecological Indicators. 10, 2, p. 562-563 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

1 Scopus citations

Reptilian all the way?

Meiri, S. & Raia, P., 23 Feb 2010, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 107, 8, p. E27

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

Open Access

15 Scopus citations

2009

Unsung hero Robert C. Gallo

Abbadessa, G., Accolla, R., Aiuti, F., Albini, A., Aldovini, A., Alfano, M., Antonelli, G., Bartholomew, C., Bentwich, Z., Bertazzoni, U., Berzofsky, J. A., Biberfeld, P., Boeri, E., Buonaguro, L., Buonaguro, F. M., Bukrinsky, M., Burny, A., Caruso, A., Cassol, S. & Chandra, P. & 86 others, Ceccherini-Nelli, L., Chieco-Bianchi, L., Clerici, M., Colombini-Hatch, S., Morghen, C. D. G., De Maria, A., De Rossi, A., Dierich, M., Della-Favera, R., Dolei, A., Douek, D., Erfle, V., Felber, B., Fiorentini, S., Franchini, G., Gershoni, J. M., Gotch, F., Green, P., Greene, W. C., Hall, W., Haseltine, W., Jacobson, S., Kallings, L. O., Kalyanaraman, V. S., Katinger, H., Khalili, K., Klein, G., Klein, E., Klotman, M., Klotman, P., Kotler, M., Kurth, R., Lafeuillade, A., La Placa, M., Lewis, J., Lillo, F., Lisziewicz, J., Lomonico, A., Lopalco, L., Lori, F., Lusso, P., Macchi, B., Malim, M., Margolis, L., Markham, P. D., Mcclure, M., Miller, N., Mingari, M. C., Moretta, L., Noonan, D., O'Brien, S., Okamoto, T., Pal, R., Palese, P., Panet, A., Pantaleo, G., Pavlakis, G., Pistello, M., Plotkin, S., Poli, G., Pomerantz, R., Radaelli, A., Robert-Guroff, M., Roederer, M., Sarngadharan, M. G., Schols, D., Secchiero, P., Shearer, G., Siccardi, A., Stevenson, M., Svoboda, J., Tartaglia, J., Torelli, G., Tornesello, M. L., Tschachler, E., Vaccarezza, M., Vallbracht, A., Van Lunzen, J., Varnier, O., Vicenzi, E., Von Melchner, H., Witz, I., Zagury, D., Zagury, J. F., Zauli, G. & Zipeto, D., 9 Jan 2009, In: Science. 323, 5911, p. 206-207 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

3 Scopus citations

2008