The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History

Research output

Research output per year 2006 2015 2016 2017 2020 2021 2022 2023

• 1582 Citations
• 18 h-index
• 85 Article
• 4 Review article
• 2 Comment/debate
• 2 Letter
• 2 More
  • 1 Conference article
  • 1 Editorial

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2023

  Ancient DNA from a lost Negev Highlands desert grape reveals a Late Antiquity wine lineage

  Cohen, P., Bacilieri, R., Ramos-Madrigal, J., Privman, E., Boaretto, E., Weber, A., Fuks, D., Weiss, E., Erickson-Gini, T., Bucking, S., Tepper, Y., Cvikel, D., Schmidt, J., Gilbert, M. T. P., Wales, N., Bar-Oz, G. & Meiri, M., 25 Apr 2023, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 120, 17, p. e2213563120

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

  Open Access

  • Ancient DNA 100%
  • Vitis 81%
  • Wine 76%
  • Byzantium 67%
  • Radiometric Dating 61%

• Confronting the ‘nocturnal problem’ in coral reefs: sleeping site selection and cocoon formation in parrotfishes

  Pickholtz, R., Kiflawi, M., Buba, Y., Chaikin, S., Gavriel, T., Lapid, G., Lazarus, M., Malamud, S., Marom, N., Marom, S., Nieger-Rachmilevitz, M., Olsson, K., Perevolotsky, T., Rothman, S. B. S., Salingrè, S., Shapira, N., Sternbach, B., Wandel, H. & Belmaker, J., 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Coral Reefs.

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

  • Scaridae 100%
  • cocoon 94%
  • coral reefs 74%
  • site selection 73%
  • cocoons 73%

• How many valid Pleurosicya (Teleostei: Gobiidae) species are known from the Red Sea?

  Goren, M., Bogorodsky, S. V. & Rothman, S. B. S., 27 Mar 2023, In: Zootaxa. 5258, 1, p. 113-129 17 p.

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

  • Pleurosicya 100%
  • Indian Ocean 65%
  • Gobiidae 59%
  • Red Sea 55%
  • Teleostei 48%

• Meet the Medicines—A Crowdsourced Approach to Collecting and Communicating Information about Essential Medicines Online

  Golumbic, Y. N., Scroggie, K. R., Kenneally, C. R., Lin, J., Blyth, M. T., Firmer, G., Rutledge, P. J. & Motion, A., Mar 2023, In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20, 5, 4242.

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

  Open Access

  • Crowdsourcing 100%
  • Medicine 62%
  • medicine 61%
  • Citizen Science 58%
  • Communication 56%

• The Delimitation of Geographic Distributions of Gobius bucchichi and Gobius incognitus (Teleostei: Gobiidae)

  Kovačić, M., Renoult, J. P., Pillon, R., Bilecenoglu, M., Tiralongo, F., Bogorodsky, S. V., Engin, S., Kovtun, O., Louisy, P., Patzner, R. A., Rothman, S. B. S., Soldo, A. & Yokes, M. B., Mar 2023, In: Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 11, 3, 516.

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

  Open Access

  • Ecology 100%
  • Black Sea 33%
  • Mediterranean Sea 32%
  • distribution 28%
  • sea 26%
• 2022

  Animal Remains from Tel Reḥov Economy and Culture in the Iron Age Settlement

  Marom, N., Tamar, K. & Harding, S., Jun 2022, In: Near Eastern Archaeology. 85, 2, p. 164-169 6 p.

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

  • Iron Age 100%
  • Animals 94%
  • animal 76%
  • Economy 64%
  • economy 58%

• CropPol: A dynamic, open and global database on crop pollination

  Allen-Perkins, A., Magrach, A., Dainese, M., Garibaldi, L. A., Kleijn, D., Rader, R., Reilly, J. R., Winfree, R., Lundin, O., McGrady, C. M., Brittain, C., Biddinger, D. J., Artz, D. R., Elle, E., Hoffman, G., Ellis, J. D., Daniels, J., Gibbs, J., Campbell, J. W., Brokaw, J., & 167 othersWilson, J. K., Mason, K., Ward, K. L., Gundersen, K. B., Bobiwash, K., Gut, L., Rowe, L. M., Boyle, N. K., Williams, N. M., Joshi, N. K., Rothwell, N., Gillespie, R. L., Isaacs, R., Fleischer, S. J., Peterson, S. S., Rao, S., Pitts-Singer, T. L., Fijen, T., Boreux, V., Rundlöf, M., Viana, B. F., Klein, A. M., Smith, H. G., Bommarco, R., Carvalheiro, L. G., Ricketts, T. H., Ghazoul, J., Krishnan, S., Benjamin, F. E., Loureiro, J., Castro, S., Raine, N. E., de Groot, G. A., Horgan, F. G., Hipólito, J., Smagghe, G., Meeus, I., Eeraerts, M., Potts, S. G., Kremen, C., García, D., Miñarro, M., Crowder, D. W., Pisanty, G., Mandelik, Y., Vereecken, N. J., Leclercq, N., Weekers, T., Lindstrom, S. A. M., Stanley, D. A., Zaragoza-Trello, C., Nicholson, C. C., Scheper, J., Rad, C., Marks, E. A. N., Mota, L., Danforth, B., Park, M., Bezerra, A. D. M., Freitas, B. M., Mallinger, R. E., Oliveira da Silva, F., Willcox, B., Ramos, D. L., D. da Silva e Silva, F., Lázaro, A., Alomar, D., González-Estévez, M. A., Taki, H., Cariveau, D. P., Garratt, M. P. D., Nabaes Jodar, D. N., Stewart, R. I. A., Ariza, D., Pisman, M., Lichtenberg, E. M., Schüepp, C., Herzog, F., Entling, M. H., Dupont, Y. L., Michener, C. D., Daily, G. C., Ehrlich, P. R., Burns, K. L. W., Vilà, M., Robson, A., Howlett, B., Blechschmidt, L., Jauker, F., Schwarzbach, F., Nesper, M., Diekötter, T., Wolters, V., Castro, H., Gaspar, H., Nault, B. A., Badenhausser, I., Petersen, J. D., Tscharntke, T., Bretagnolle, V., Willis Chan, D. S., Chacoff, N., Andersson, G. K. S., Jha, S., Colville, J. F., Veldtman, R., Coutinho, J., Bianchi, F. J. J. A., Sutter, L., Albrecht, M., Jeanneret, P., Zou, Y., Averill, A. L., Saez, A., Sciligo, A. R., Vergara, C. H., Bloom, E. H., Oeller, E., Badano, E. I., Loeb, G. M., Grab, H., Ekroos, J., Gagic, V., Cunningham, S. A., Åström, J., Cavigliasso, P., Trillo, A., Classen, A., Mauchline, A. L., Montero-Castaño, A., Wilby, A., Woodcock, B. A., Sidhu, C. S., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Vogiatzakis, I. N., Herrera, J. M., Otieno, M., Gikungu, M. W., Cusser, S. J., Nauss, T., Nilsson, L., Knapp, J., Ortega-Marcos, J. J., González, J. A., Osborne, J. L., Blanche, R., Shaw, R. F., Hevia, V., Stout, J., Arthur, A. D., Blochtein, B., Szentgyorgyi, H., Li, J., Mayfield, M. M., Woyciechowski, M., Nunes-Silva, P., Halinski de Oliveira, R., Henry, S., Simmons, B. I., Dalsgaard, B., Hansen, K., Sritongchuay, T., O'Reilly, A. D., Chamorro García, F. J., Nates Parra, G., Magalhães Pigozo, C. & Bartomeus, I., Mar 2022, In: Ecology. 103, 3, e3614.

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

  • Pollination 100%
  • pollination 74%
  • crop 41%
  • Databases 34%
  • Fruit 32%

• First exact record and phylogenetic position of the gecko Ptyodactylus hasselquistii (Squamata: Phyllodactylidae) from Lebanon

  Tamar, K. & Moravec, J., 1 Nov 2022, In: Zootaxa. 5200, 5, p. 449-469 21 p.

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

  • Lebanon 100%
  • Lizards 99%
  • Gekkonidae 89%
  • Egypt 87%
  • Squamata 81%

• Growth and survival dynamics of mesophotic coral juveniles in shallow reefs

  Kramer, N., Eyal, G., Tamir, R. & Loya, Y., 2022, In: Marine Ecology - Progress Series. 682, p. 237-242 6 p.

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

  • reefs 100%
  • corals 99%
  • coral 85%
  • reef 81%
  • transplantation 26%

• Lessons From the Western Atlantic Lionfish Invasion to Inform Management in the Mediterranean

  Ulman, A., Ali, F. Z., Harris, H. E., Adel, M., Mabruk, S. A. A. A., Bariche, M., Candelmo, A. C., Chapman, J. K., Çiçek, B. A., Clements, K. R., Fogg, A. Q., Frank, S., Gittings, S. R., Green, S. J., Hall-Spencer, J. M., Hart, J., Huber, S., Karp, P. E., Kyne, F. C., Kletou, D., & 5 othersMagno, L., Rothman, S. B. S., Solomon, J. N., Stern, N. & Yildiz, T., 20 Apr 2022, In: Frontiers in Marine Science. 9, 865162.

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

  Open Access

  • stakeholders 100%
  • Fish 99%
  • removal 95%
  • Mediterranean Sea 89%
  • Conservation 87%

• Morpho-functional traits of the coral Stylophora pistillata enhance light capture for photosynthesis at mesophotic depths

  Kramer, N., Guan, J., Chen, S., Wangpraseurt, D. & Loya, Y., Dec 2022, In: Communications Biology. 5, 1, 861.

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

  Open Access

  • Photosynthesis 100%
  • Anthozoa 95%
  • corals 70%
  • photosynthesis 50%
  • Light 47%

• Parasites of pufferfish, Lagocephalus spp. and Torquigener flavimaculosus of the Israeli Mediterranean: A new case of Lessepsian endoparasites

  Gabel, M., Unger, P., Theisen, S., Palm, H. W., Rothman, S. B. S., Yitzhak, N., Morov, A. R. & Stern, N., Dec 2022, In: International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife. 19, p. 211-221 11 p.

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

  Open Access

  • Torquigener 100%
  • Lagocephalus 92%
  • Tetraodontiformes 78%
  • Tetraodontidae 68%
  • endoparasites 64%

• Revision of the montane New Guinean skink genus Lobulia (Squamata: Scincidae), with the description of four new genera and nine new species

  Slavenko, A., Tamar, K., Tallowin, O. J. S., Kraus, F., Allison, A., Carranza, S. & Meiri, S., 1 May 2022, In: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 195, 1, p. 220-278 59 p.

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

  • herpetofauna 100%
  • Scincidae 86%
  • Squamata 76%
  • new genus 70%
  • new species 60%

• Taxonomic revision of the Tropiocolotes nattereri (Squamata, Gekkonidae) species complex, with the description of a new species from Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia

  Ribeiro-Júnior, M. A., Tamar, K., Maza, E., Flecks, M., Wagner, P., Shacham, B., Calvo, M., Geniez, P., Crochet, P. A., Koch, C. & Meiri, S., May 2022, In: Zoologica Scripta. 51, 3, p. 288-309 22 p.

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

  Open Access

  • Lizards 100%
  • species complex 97%
  • Jordan 95%
  • Gekkonidae 89%
  • neotypes 88%

• The politics of Artificial Intelligence regulation and governance reform in the European Union

  Justo-Hanani, R., Mar 2022, In: Policy Sciences. 55, 1, p. 137-159 23 p.

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

  • Governance reform 100%
  • politics 85%
  • artificial intelligence 84%
  • Artificial Intelligence 76%
  • policy reform 70%

• The Stoneflies (Insecta: Plecoptera) of Israel: Past, Present, Future…?

  Yanai, Z., Feb 2022, In: Diversity. 14, 2, 80.

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

  Open Access

  • stonefly 100%
  • Plecoptera 83%
  • Israel 74%
  • Insecta 72%
  • Oceans and Seas 51%

• Twenty-five new species of mining bees (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae: Andrena) from Israel and the Levant

  Pisanty, G., Scheuchl, E., Martin, T., Cardinal, S. & Wood, T. J., 13 Sep 2022, In: Zootaxa. 5185, 1, p. 1-109 109 p.

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

  • Andrenidae 100%
  • Andrena 99%
  • Hymenoptera 94%
  • Bees 84%
  • bee 78%

• Two new species of Alainites (Ephemeroptera, Baetidae) from the Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot

  Yanai, Z., Sroka, P. & Gattolliat, J. L., 2022, In: ZooKeys. 2022, 1118, p. 73-95 23 p.

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

  Open Access

  • Ephemeroptera 100%
  • Baetidae 69%
  • Biodiversity 65%
  • Israel 53%
  • Italy 45%

• Under the radar: co-introduced monogeneans (Polyopisthocotylea: Gastrocotylinea) of the invasive fish Scomberomorus commerson in the Mediterranean Sea

  Rothman, S. B. S., Diamant, A. & Goren, M., Aug 2022, In: Parasitology Research. 121, 8, p. 2275-2293 19 p.

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

  • Mediterranean Sea 100%
  • Scomberomorus 89%
  • radar 75%
  • Monogenea 74%
  • Gills 71%
• 2021

  Are we ready to track climate-driven shifts in marine species across international boundaries? - A global survey of scientific bottom trawl data

  A. Maureaud, A., Frelat, R., Pécuchet, L., Shackell, N., Mérigot, B., Pinsky, M. L., Amador, K., Anderson, S. C., Arkhipkin, A., Auber, A., Barri, I., Bell, R. J., Belmaker, J., Beukhof, E., Camara, M. L., Guevara-Carrasco, R., Choi, J., Christensen, H. T., Conner, J., Cubillos, L. A., & 55 othersDiadhiou, H. D., Edelist, D., Emblemsvåg, M., Ernst, B., Fairweather, T. P., Fock, H. O., Friedland, K. D., Garcia, C. B., Gascuel, D., Gislason, H., Goren, M., Guitton, J., Jouffre, D., Hattab, T., Hidalgo, M., Kathena, J. N., Knuckey, I., Kidé, S. O., Koen-Alonso, M., Koopman, M., Kulik, V., León, J. P., Levitt-Barmats, Y., Lindegren, M., Llope, M., Massiot-Granier, F., Masski, H., McLean, M., Meissa, B., Mérillet, L., Mihneva, V., Nunoo, F. K. E., O'Driscoll, R., O'Leary, C. A., Petrova, E., Ramos, J. E., Refes, W., Román-Marcote, E., Siegstad, H., Sobrino, I., Sólmundsson, J., Sonin, O., Spies, I., Steingrund, P., Stephenson, F., Stern, N., Tserkova, F., Tserpes, G., Tzanatos, E., van Rijn, I., van Zwieten, P. A. M., Vasilakopoulos, P., Yepsen, D. V., Ziegler, P. & T. Thorson, J., Jan 2021, In: Global Change Biology. 27, 2, p. 220-236 17 p.

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

  Open Access

  • bottom trawling 100%
  • trawl nets 93%
  • Climate 89%
  • Sampling 64%
  • climate 62%

• Contribution to the knowledge of the genus Takobia Novikova & Kluge, 1987 (Ephemeroptera, Baetidae) in Central Asia

  Sroka, P., Yanai, Z., Palatov, D. & Gattolliat, J. L., 2021, In: ZooKeys. 1071, p. 127-154 28 p.

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

  Open Access

  • Ephemeroptera 100%
  • Nymph 74%
  • Central Asia 73%
  • Baetidae 69%
  • phylogenetics 39%

• Elevation is a stronger predictor of morphological trait divergence than competition in a radiation of tropical lizards

  Slavenko, A., Allison, A. & Meiri, S., Apr 2021, In: Journal of Animal Ecology. 90, 4, p. 917-930 14 p.

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

  Open Access

  • New Guinea 100%
  • Lizards 82%
  • Scincidae 75%
  • lizard 70%
  • lizards 56%

• Macrofauna Inhabiting Massive Demosponges From Shallow and Mesophotic Habitats Along the Israeli Mediterranean Coast

  Goren, L., Idan, T., Shefer, S. & Ilan, M., 18 Jan 2021, In: Frontiers in Marine Science. 7, 612779.

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

  Open Access

  • Hotels 100%
  • Coastal zones 90%
  • Ecosystems 88%
  • sponge 84%
  • coasts 64%

• Rare crested rat subfossils unveil Afro-Eurasian ecological corridors synchronous with early human dispersals

  Lazagabaster, I. A., Rovelli, V., Fabre, P. H., Porat, R., Ullman, M., Davidovich, U., Lavi, T., Ganor, A., Klein, E., Weiss, K., Nuriel, P., Meiri, M. & Marom, N., 3 Aug 2021, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118, 31, e2105719118.

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

  Open Access

  • Oceans and Seas 100%
  • Ecosystem 96%
  • Caves 63%
  • Climate Change 60%
  • Eastern Africa 58%

• Respiration rates, metabolic demands and feeding of ephyrae and young medusae of the rhizostome rhopilema nomadica

  Kuplik, Z., Kerem, D. & Angel, D. L., Jul 2021, In: Diversity. 13, 7, 320.

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

  Open Access

  • Respiratory Rate 100%
  • Ctenophora 86%
  • respiration 83%
  • Plankton 81%
  • breathing 79%

• Sponge-Associated Polychaetes: Not a Random Assemblage

  Goren, L., Idan, T., Shefer, S. & Ilan, M., 31 May 2021, In: Frontiers in Marine Science. 8, 695163.

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

  Open Access

  • Polychaeta 100%
  • sponge 95%
  • polychaete 66%
  • Substrates 32%
  • Sampling 32%
• 2020

  Can electrostatic fields limit the take-off of tiny whiteflies (Bemisia tabaci)?

  Lapidot, O., Bechar, A., Ronen, B. & Ribak, G., 1 Nov 2020, In: Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology. 206, 6, p. 809-817 9 p.

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

  • whitefly 100%
  • Hemiptera 90%
  • Static Electricity 64%
  • Bemisia tabaci 63%
  • Aleyrodidae 59%

• Does Depth Matter? Reproduction Pattern Plasticity in Two Common Sponge Species Found in Both Mesophotic and Shallow Waters

  Idan, T., Goren, L., Shefer, S., Brickner, I. & Ilan, M., 8 Dec 2020, In: Frontiers in Marine Science. 7, 610565.

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

  Open Access

  • sponge 100%
  • plasticity 93%
  • Plasticity 90%
  • shallow water 81%
  • reproductive strategy 65%

• First report of the non-native freshwater polychaete namalycastis hawaiiensis (Johnson, 1903) (nereididae: Namanereidinae) in israel

  Goren, L., Feldstein, T. & Hershkovitz, Y., Jun 2020, In: BioInvasions Records. 9, 2, p. 303-309 7 p.

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

  Open Access

  • Nereididae 100%
  • aquarium 76%
  • polychaete 75%
  • aquariums 67%
  • Polychaeta 67%

• Population dynamics and range shifts of moose (Alces alces) during the Late Quaternary

  Meiri, M., Lister, A., Kosintsev, P., Zazula, G. & Barnes, I., 1 Oct 2020, In: Journal of Biogeography. 47, 10, p. 2223-2234 12 p.

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

  Open Access

  • Alces alces 100%
  • population dynamics 71%
  • Last Glacial Maximum 39%
  • Last Glacial 28%
  • history 21%

• Sponges in a Changing Climate: Survival of Agelas oroides in a Warming Mediterranean Sea

  Idan, T., Goren, L., Shefer, S. & Ilan, M., 8 Dec 2020, In: Frontiers in Marine Science. 7, 603593.

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

  Open Access

  • Mediterranean Sea 100%
  • sponge 89%
  • climate change 73%
  • warming 67%
  • climate 46%

• The first complete mitochondrial genome of the sand dollar Sinaechinocyamus mai (Echinoidea: Clypeasteroida)

  Lin, J. P., Tsai, M. H., Kroh, A., Trautman, A., Machado, D. J., Chang, L. Y., Reid, R., Lin, K. T., Bronstein, O., Lee, S. J. & Janies, D., Mar 2020, In: Genomics. 112, 2, p. 1686-1693 8 p.

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

  Open Access

  • Sea Urchins 100%
  • Mitochondrial Genome 93%
  • Phylogeny 22%
  • Base Pairing 19%
  • Genomics 18%

• To be or not to be tchernovi: A taxonomic revision of the snake genus Micrelaps (Squamata: Serpentes), in Israel

  JAMISON, SIMON., MAZA, EREZ., SINAIKO, GUY., TAMAR, KARIN., SLAVENKO, ALEX. & MEIRI, SHAI., 19 Nov 2020, In: Zootaxa. 4881, 2, p. 290-306 17 p.

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

  • Serpentes 100%
  • Snakes 95%
  • snake 87%
  • Squamata 83%
  • Israel 82%
• 2019

  Mobility and trade in Mediterranean antiquity: Evidence for an ‘Italian connection’ in Mycenaean Greece revealed by ancient DNA of livestock

  Meiri, M., Stockhammer, P. W., Morgenstern, P. & Maran, J., Feb 2019, In: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 23, p. 98-103 6 p.

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

  • Italian Connection 100%
  • Mycenaean Greece 92%
  • Ancient DNA 77%
  • antiquity 73%
  • Livestock 62%

• Proteomic profiling of ascidians as a tool for biomonitoring marine environments

  Kuplik, Z., Novak, L. & Shenkar, N., Apr 2019, In: PLoS ONE. 14, 4, e0215005.

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

  Open Access

  • Urochordata 100%
  • Biological Monitoring 92%
  • Proteomics 65%
  • Indian Ocean 52%
  • Mediterranean Sea 30%

• SNAPSHOT OF THE UPPER SLOPE MACRO- AND MEGAFAUNA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA: ECOLOGICAL DIVERSITY AND PROTECTION

  Goren, M., Danovaro, R., Rothman, SBS., Mienis, HK. & Galil, BS., 2019, In: Vie et Milieu. 69, 4, p. 233-248 16 p.

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

  • Mediterranean Sea 100%
  • organisms 50%
  • biota 47%
  • oil fields 35%
  • anthropogenic activities 30%

• Zooarchaeology of the social and economic upheavals in the Late Antique-Early Islamic sequence of the Negev Desert

  Marom, N., Meiri, M., Tepper, Y., Erickson-Gini, T., Reshef, H., Weissbrod, L. & Bar-Oz, G., 1 Dec 2019, In: Scientific Reports. 9, 1, 6702.

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

  Open Access

  • Ownership 100%
  • Accidental Falls 66%
  • Economics 64%
  • Animals 41%
• 2018

  Initiating the DNA barcoding of Eastern Mediterranean deep-sea biota

  Paz, G., Yudkovsky, Y., Shaish, L., Stern, N., Lubinevski, H., Mienis, HK., Douek, J., Galil, B., Goren, M. & Rinkevich, B., 2018, In: Mediterranean Marine Science. 19, 3, p. 416-429 14 p.

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

  • Biota 100%
  • DNA barcoding 64%
  • Fish 64%
  • DNA 61%
  • deep sea 55%

• Mediterranean fruit fly subplot hot spots prediction by experts' experience

  Mendelsohn, O., Dayan, T., Aidlin-Harari, S., Silberstein, M., Orlov, V. & Blank, L., May 2018, In: Journal of Applied Entomology. 142, 4, p. 371-379 9 p.

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

  • Ceratitis capitata 100%
  • prediction 54%
  • orchards 34%
  • pests 29%
  • expert opinion 26%

• Subspecies dynamics in space and time: A study of the red deer complex using ancient and modern DNA and morphology

  Meiri, M., Kosintsev, P., Conroy, K., Meiri, S., Barnes, I. & Lister, A., 1 Feb 2018, In: Journal of Biogeography. 45, 2, p. 367-380 14 p.

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

  • subspecies 100%
  • Cervus elaphus 97%
  • space and time 93%
  • deer 89%
  • DNA 69%

• Taxonomic review of the subgenus Andrena (Poecilandrena) (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae) in Israel and the Levant

  Pisanty, G., Scheuchl, E. & Dorchin, N., 18 Jan 2018, In: Zootaxa. 4374, 2, p. 151-188 38 p.

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

  • Andrenidae 100%
  • Andrena 99%
  • Hymenoptera 94%
  • Middle East 77%
  • Israel 70%

• Taxonomy of baetis leach in Israel (Ephemeroptera, Baetidae)

  Yanai, Z., Gattolliat, J. L. & Dorchin, N., 2018, In: ZooKeys. 2018, 794, p. 45-84 40 p.

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

  Open Access

  • Ephemeroptera 100%
  • Baetis 70%
  • Baetidae 69%
  • Israel 53%
  • taxonomy 34%

• Tropical bird species have less variable body sizes

  Read, Q. D., Baiser, B., Grady, J. M., Zarnetske, P. L., Record, S. & Belmaker, J., 1 Jan 2018, In: Biology Letters. 14, 1, 20170453.

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  • tropical birds 100%
  • Body Size 78%
  • Birds 72%
  • niches 58%
  • body size 56%
• 2017

  Alien facelinid nudibranchs in the Eastern Mediterranean: First report of Phidiana militaris (Alder and Hancock, 1864) and report of Caloria indica (Bergh, 1896) 30 years after its previous sighting

  Rothman, S. B. S., Mienis, H. K. & Galil, B. S., 2017, In: BioInvasions Records. 6, 2, p. 125-128 4 p.

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

  Open Access

  • Alnus 100%
  • Pacific Ocean 98%
  • Israel 86%
  • coasts 65%
  • coast 49%

• Allometry of wing twist and camber in a flower chafer during free flight: How do wing deformations scale with body size?

  Meresman, Y. & Ribak, G., 18 Oct 2017, In: Royal Society Open Science. 4, 10, 171152.

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  • allometry 100%
  • flight 71%
  • body size 71%
  • flowers 59%
  • Coleoptera 22%

• Cotylorhiza erythraea Stiasny, 1920 (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae: Cepheidae), yet another erythraean jellyfish from the Mediterranean coast of Israel

  Galil, B. S., Gershwin, L. A., Zorea, M., Rahav, A., Rothman, S. B. S., Fine, M., Lubinevsky, H., Douek, J., Paz, G. & Rinkevich, B., 1 Mar 2017, In: Marine Biodiversity. 47, 1, p. 229-235 7 p.

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

  • Rhizostomeae 100%
  • jellyfish 75%
  • Scyphozoa 73%
  • Israel 58%
  • canal 52%

• Eastern Mediterranean Mobility in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages: Inferences from Ancient DNA of Pigs and Cattle

  Meiri, M., Stockhammer, P. W., Marom, N., Bar-Oz, G., Sapir-Hen, L., Morgenstern, P., MacHeridis, S., Rosen, B., Huchon, D., Maran, J. & Finkelstein, I., 1 Dec 2017, In: Scientific Reports. 7, 1, 701.

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

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  • Ancient DNA 100%
  • Iron 52%
  • Cattle 50%
  • Swine 49%
  • Greece 24%

• Egyptian imperial economy in Canaan: Reaction to the climate crisis at the end of the Late Bronze Age

  Finkelstein, I., Langgut, D., Meiri, M. & Sapir-Hen, L., 2017, In: Agypten und Levante. 27, p. 249-259 11 p.

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

  • Canaan 100%
  • Late Bronze Age 84%
  • agricultural product 76%
  • Egyptians 63%
  • Climate 63%

• Like a pig out of water: Seaborne spread of domestic pigs in Southern Italy and Sardinia during the Bronze and Iron Ages

  Lega, C., Fulgione, D., Genovese, A., Rook, L., Masseti, M., Meiri, M., Cinzia Marra, A., Carotenuto, F. & Raia, P., 1 Feb 2017, In: Heredity. 118, 2, p. 154-159 6 p.

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

  Open Access

  • Sus scrofa 100%
  • Italy 70%
  • Iron 62%
  • Swine 59%
  • Water 49%

• Molecular phylogeny and morphological analysis resolve a long-standing controversy over generic concepts in Ecdyonurinae mayflies (Ephemeroptera: Heptageniidae)

  Yanai, Z., Sartori, M., Dor, R. & Dorchin, N., 1 Jan 2017, In: Systematic Entomology. 42, 1, p. 182-193 12 p.

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

  • Heptageniidae 100%
  • mayfly 85%
  • Ephemeroptera 73%
  • phylogeny 61%
  • phylogenetics 25%