Search Results - "SZITENBERG, Amir"
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Dissecting the factors shaping fish skin microbiomes in a heterogeneous inland water system
Published in Microbiome (31-01-2020)“…Fish skin microbiomes are rarely studied in inland water systems, in spite of their importance for fish health and ecology. This is mainly because fish species…”
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Temporal and spatial variation in distribution of fish environmental DNA in England’s largest lake
Published in Environmental DNA (Hoboken, N.J.) (01-05-2019)“…Environmental DNA offers great potential as a biodiversity monitoring tool. Previous work has demonstrated that eDNA metabarcoding provides reliable…”
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Comparative Genomics of Apomictic Root-Knot Nematodes: Hybridization, Ploidy, and Dynamic Genome Change
Published in Genome biology and evolution (01-10-2017)“…The root-knot nematodes (genus Meloidogyne) are important plant parasites causing substantial agricultural losses. The Meloidogyne incognita group (MIG) of…”
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Isolation and Characterization of Live Yeast Cells from Ancient Vessels as a Tool in Bio-Archaeology
Published in mBio (30-04-2019)“…Ancient fermented food has been studied based on recipes, residue analysis, and ancient-DNA techniques and reconstructed using modern domesticated yeast. Here,…”
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Skin Microbiome Compositional Changes in Atopic Dermatitis Accompany Dead Sea Climatotherapy
Published in Photochemistry and photobiology (01-11-2019)“…Dead Sea climatotherapy (DSC) is a well‐established therapeutic modality for the treatment of several diseases, including atopic dermatitis. Skin microbiome…”
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Bacterial Community Structure Dynamics in Meloidogyne incognita-Infected Roots and Its Role in Worm-Microbiome Interactions
Published in mSphere (15-07-2020)“…Plant parasitic nematodes such as Meloidogyne incognita have a complex life cycle, occurring sequentially in various niches of the root and rhizosphere. They…”
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Teasing apart the host-related, nutrient-related and temperature-related effects shaping the phenology and microbiome of the tropical seagrass Halophila stipulacea
Published in Environmental microbiome (15-04-2022)“…Halophila stipulacea seagrass meadows are an ecologically important and threatened component of the ecosystem in the Gulf of Aqaba. Recent studies have…”
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ReproPhylo: An Environment for Reproducible Phylogenomics
Published in PLoS computational biology (01-09-2015)“…The reproducibility of experiments is key to the scientific process, and particularly necessary for accurate reporting of analyses in data-rich fields such as…”
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Diversity of sponge mitochondrial introns revealed by cox 1 sequences of Tetillidae
Published in BMC evolutionary biology (20-09-2010)“…Animal mitochondrial introns are rare. In sponges and cnidarians they have been found in the cox 1 gene of some spirophorid and homosclerophorid sponges, as…”
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The evolution of tyrosine-recombinase elements in Nematoda
Published in PloS one (08-09-2014)“…Transposable elements can be categorised into DNA and RNA elements based on their mechanism of transposition. Tyrosine recombinase elements (YREs) are…”
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Eukaryotic Adaptation to Years-Long Starvation Resembles that of Bacteria
Published in iScience (27-09-2019)“…The Growth Advantage in Stationary Phase (GASP) phenomenon, described in bacteria, reflects the genetic adaptation of bacteria to stress, including starvation,…”
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Isolation and Characterization of Live Yeast Cells from Ancient Clay Vessels
Published in Bio-protocol (05-01-2020)“…Ancient fermented food has been studied mainly based on residue analysis and recipes and reconstruction attempts were performed using modern domesticated…”
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Mitochondrial and morphological variation of Tilapia zillii in Israel
Published in BMC research notes (02-04-2012)“…Tilapia zillii is widespread in the East Levant inland aquatic systems as well as in artificial water reservoirs. In this study we explore the genetic and…”
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Diversity of sponge mitochondrial introns revealed by cox 1sequences of Tetillidae
Published in BMC evolutionary biology (20-09-2010)“…Background Animal mitochondrial introns are rare. In sponges and cnidarians they have been found in the cox 1 gene of some spirophorid and homosclerophorid…”
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Patch-scale to hillslope-scale geodiversity alleviates susceptibility of dryland ecosystems to climate change: insights from the Israeli Negev
Published in Current opinion in environmental sustainability (01-06-2021)“…Notes: In homogeneous hillslopes, the thick soil layer enables shrubby and herbaceous vegetation to develop deep root systems, which compete for water…”
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A matter of choice: Understanding the interactions between epiphytic foraminifera and their seagrass host Halophila stipulacea
Published in Marine environmental research (01-04-2024)“…In sub/tropical waters, benthic foraminifera are among the most abundant epiphytic organisms inhabiting seagrass meadows. This study explored the nature of the…”
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Widespread prevalence but contrasting patterns of intragenomic rRNA polymorphisms in nematodes: Implications for phylogeny, species delimitation and life history inference
Published in Molecular ecology resources (01-01-2020)“…Ribosomal RNA genes have long been a favoured locus in phylogenetic and metabarcoding studies. Within a genome, rRNA loci are organized as tandem repeated…”
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Genetic Drift, Not Life History or RNAi, Determine Long-Term Evolution of Transposable Elements
Published in Genome biology and evolution (01-09-2016)“…Transposable elements (TEs) are a major source of genome variation across the branches of life. Although TEs may play an adaptive role in their host's genome,…”
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Mitochondrial group I and group II introns in the sponge orders Agelasida and Axinellida
Published in BMC evolutionary biology (12-12-2015)“…Self-splicing introns are present in the mitochondria of members of most eukaryotic lineages. They are divided into Group I and Group II introns, according to…”
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Skin Microbiome Compositional Changes in Atopic Dermatitis Accompany Dead Sea Climatotherapy
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