Marine Center Publications 2019

Halász, C. S. McFadden, R. Toonen, Y. Benayahu (2019). Re-description of type material of Xenia Lamarck, 1816 (Octocorallia: Xeniidae) DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.2.1 Zootaxa  4652 (2): 201–239

M. Quattrini, T. Wu, K. Soong, M.-S. Jeng, Y. Benayahu, C. S. McFadden (2019). A next generation approach to species delimitation reveals the role of hybridization in a cryptic species complex of corals DOI: 10.1186/s12862-019-1427-y BMC Evolutionary Biology  19: 116

A.-F. A. Trompeta, I. Preiss, F. Ben-Ami, Y. Benayahu, C. A. Charitidis (2019). Toxicity testing of MWCNTs to aquatic organisms DOI: 10.1039/c9ra06672a RSC Advances 9, 36707

S. McFadden, A. Gonzalez, R. Imada, S. S. Shi, P. Hong, M. Ekins, Y. Benayahu (2019). Molecular operational taxonomic units reveal restricted geographic ranges and regional endemism in the Indo-Pacific octocoral family Xeniidae DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13543 J. Biogeography

Gutner-Hoch, R. Martins, F. Maia, T. Oliveira, M. Shpigel, M. Weis, J. Tedim, Y. Benayahu Toxicity of engineered micro- and nanomaterials with antifouling properties of the brine shrimp Artemia salina and embryonic stages of the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2019.05.031 Environ. Poll. 2019 (pp. 530-537)

Nikolaivits, A. Agrafiotis, A. Termentzi, K. Machera, G. Le Goff, P. Alvarez, S. Chavanich, Y. Benayahu, J. Ouazzani, N. Fokialakis, E. Topakas (2019). Unraveling the detoxification mechanism of 2,4-dichlorophenol by marine-derived mesophotic symbiotic fungi isolated from marine invertebrates DOI: 10.3390/md17100564  Marine Drugs  17(10): 564

Shoham, T. Prohaska, Z. Barkai, A. Zitek, Y. Benayahu (2019). Soft corals form aragonite-precipitated columnar spiculite in mesophotic reefs DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-37696-z Scientific Reports

Le Goff, P. Lopez, G. Arcile, E. Van-Elslande, P. Retailleau, J.-F. Gallard, P. Vlachou, M. Weis, Y. Benayahu, N. Fokialakis, J. Ouazzani (2019). Impact of the cultivation technique on the production of secondary metabolites by Chrysosporium lobatum TM-237-S5, isolated from the sponge Acanthella cavernosa DOI:10.3390/md17120678 17, 678; Marine Drugs

Freire, E. Gutner-Hoch, A. Muras, Y. Benayahu, A. Otero (2019). The effect of bacteria on planula-larvae settlement and metamorphosis in the octocoral Rhytisma fulvum fulvum DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223214 PLOS ONE

D. Reimer, H. Kise1, M. E. A. Santos1 D. J. Lindsay, R. L. Pyle, J. M. Copus, B. W. Bowen, M. Nonaka, T. Higashiji, Y. Benayahu (2019). Exploring the Biodiversity of Understudied Benthic Taxa at Mesophotic and Deeper Depths:  Examples from the Order Zoantharia (Anthozoa: Hexacorallia) DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00305 Frontiers | Marine Science

M.H. Schleyer, N. J. Downey-Breedt, Y. Benayahu (2019). Species composition of Alcyonacea (Octocorallia) on coral reefs at Europa Island and associated connectivity across the Mozambique Channel DOI: 10.1007/s12526-019-00975-7 Marine Biodiversity

Denis, D. Soto, S. De Palmas, Y. T. V. Lin, Y. Benayahu, Y. M. Huang, S.-L. Liu, J.-W. Chen, Q. Chen, N Sturaro, M.-J. Ho, Y. Su, C. F. Dai, C. A. Chen   (2019). Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems in Taiwan Mesophotic coral ecosystems of the World (Loya Y., Puglise K., Bridge T. eds)  Springer, New York.

Benayahu, T. Bridge, P. L. Colin, R. Liberman, C. McFadden, O. Pizarro, M. H Schleyer, E. Shoham, B. Reijnen, M. Weis, J. Tanaka (2019). Octocorals of the Indo-Pacific Mesophotic coral ecosystems of the World (Loya Y., Puglise K., Bridge T. eds) DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-92735-0_38   Springer, New York.

Bronstein O., Kroh A. (2019). The first mitochondrial genome of the model echinoid Lytechinus variegatus and insights on Odontophoran phylogenomics. Genomics, 111(4):710-718.

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. (2019). The first complete mitochondrial genome of the sand dollar Sinaechinocyamus mai (Echinoidea: Clypeasteroida). Genomics, 112(2):1686-1693.

Saitoh M., Kroh A., Bronstein O., Nakachi S.H.U., Obuchi M., Kiyono Y., Kanazawa K.I. (2019). The echinoid fauna from middle and southern Japan: a preliminary report. Zoosymposia 15(1):123-128.

Bronstein O., Kroh A., Miskelly A.D., Smith S.D.A., Dworjanyn S.A., Mos B., Byrne M. (2019). Implications of range overlap in the commercially important sea urchin genus Tripneustes. Marine Biology, 166(3):34.

Bar-Oz, G., Weissbrod, L., Erickson-Gini, T., Tepper, Y., Malkinson, D., Benzaquen, M., Langgut, D., Dunseth, Z.C., Butler, D.H., Shahack-Gross, R., Roskin, J., Fuks, D., Weiss, E., Marom, N., Ktalav, I., Blevis, R., Zohar, I., et al. (2019). Ancient trash mounds unravel urban collapse a century before the end of Byzantine hegemony in the southern Levant. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1900233116: 1-10.

Sisma-Ventura G., Tütken T., Peters S., Bialik, O. M., Zohar I., and Pack A. (2019).  Past aquatic environments in the Levant inferred from stable isotope compositions of carbonate and phosphate in fish teeth.  Past aquatic environments in the Levant inferred from stable isotope compositions of carbonate and phosphate in fish teeth, PLoS ONE 14, e0220390.

Zohar I. and Cooke, R. (2019) The role of dried fish: A multivariate model for identifying fish long-term preservation in the past. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 26, 101864.

Zohar, I. and Artzy, M. (2019). The role of preserved fish: Evidence of fish exploitation, processing and long-term preservation at the Eastern Mediterranean, during the Late Bronze Age (14th-13th Centuries BCE). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 23: 900-909

 Levitt-Barmats Y, Yanai Z, Magory-Cohen T, Shenkar N (2019) Life-history traits and ecological characteristics of the ornamental shrimp Neocaridina denticulata (De Haan, 1844), recently introduced into the freshwater systems of Israel. Aquat Inv 14: 684-702

 Tzafriri-Milo R, Benaltabet T, Torfstein A,  Shenkar N (2019) The potential use of invasive ascidians for biomonitoring heavy-metal pollution. Front Mar Sci doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00611

Vered G, Kaplan A, Avisar D, Shenkar N (2019) Using solitary ascidians to assess microplastic and phthalate plasticizers pollution among marine biota: A case study of the Eastern Mediterranean and Red Sea. Mar Pollut Bull 138: 618-625

Avisar D, Kaplan A,Ronen-Eliraz G, Vered G, Shenkar N, Gozlan I (2019) Validated method for the detection of three phthalates derived from marine invertebrates. Am J Anal Chem 10:445-458

Gilbert P, Porter SM, Sun CY, Xiao S, Gibson BM, Shenkar N, Knoll AH (2019) Biomineralization by particle attachment in early animals. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1902273116

Gordon T, Manny L, Shenkar N (2019) Regeneration ability in four stolidobranch ascidians: Ecological and evolutionary implications. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 519 151184 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2019.151184

Kuplik Z, Novak L, Shenkar N (2019) Proteomic profiling of ascidians as a tool for biomonitoring marine environments. PLoS One 14(4): e0215005.

Vidan E, Bauer A, Hererra FC, Chirio L,  Nogueira C, Doan T, Lewin A, Meirte D, Nagy Z, Novosolov M, Pincheira-Donoso D, Tallowin O, Torres-Carvajal O, Uetz P, Wagner P, Wang Y,  Belmaker J, Meiri S (2019). The global biogeography of lizard functional groups. Journal of Biogeography, 46 (10), 2147-2158 

Buba Y, Belmaker J (2019).  Native-exotic diversity relationships for Eastern Mediterranean fishes reveal weak pattern of interactions. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 611, 215-220

Shapiro Goldberg D, van Rijn I, Kiflawi M, Belmaker J (2019). Decreases in length at maturation of Mediterranean fishes associated with higher sea temperatures.  ICES Journal of Marine Science, 76 (4), 946-959

Frid O, Belmaker J (2019). Catch dynamics of set net fisheries in Israel in relation to mesh size . Fisheries Research, 213, 1-11 

DeLong JP, Belmaker J (2019). Ecological pleiotropy and indirect effects alter the potential for evolutionary rescue . Evolutionary applications, 12(3), 636-654

Rice A, Šmarda P, Novosolov M, Drori M, Glick L, Sabath N, Meiri S, Belmaker J, Mayrose I. (2019). The global biogeography of polyploid plants. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 3, 265–273

Cabezas, M.P., Ros, M., Dos-Santos A.M., Martínez-Laiz, G., Xavier, R., Montelli, L., Hoffman, R., Fersi, A., Dauvin J.C. and Guerra-García J.M. )2019(. First molecular insight into the introduction pathways of the non-indigenous caprellid Paracaprella pusilla Mayer, 1890 (Crustacea: Amphipoda) in the Mediterranean Sea and adjacent waters. Biological Invasions 47: 43-80

Hoffman, R. (2019). On reproduction in Crouania pumila, (Callithamniaceae, Rhodophyta) a new record for the Red Sea. Botanica Marina. 62: 595–598

Hoffman, R. (2019). Dr. Yaacov Lipkin (1935-2019). Phycological Newsletter 55(2): 43-44

Haubrock P., Innocenti G., Mueller S.A., Rothman S. B.-S., Galil B.S. and Goren M. (2019). Prey availability and community composition: diet analysis of the black angler fish Lophius budegassa Spinola, 1807 in the southeastern Mediterranean Sea. Regional Studies in Marine Science. On line 10/11/2019. 1-9.

Galil B.S. and Goren, M. (2019) Rosh-Hanikra Grottoes, Israel – A refuge for the critically endangered and for opportunistic invasives. In Öztürk, B. (Ed.) Marine Caves of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Biodiversity, Threats and Conservation. Turkish Marine Research Foundation. Publication No: 53, Istanbul, 159-166.

Goren M., Danovaro R., Rothman S., Mienis H.K., and Galil B.S. (2019) Snapshot of the upper slope macro- and megafauna of the southeastern Mediterranean Sea: ecological diversity and protection. Vie et Milieu/Life & Environment. 69 (4): 233-248

Mae Goder-Goldberger, Ron Lavi, Liora Kolska Horwitz, Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer and Lotan Edeltin, (2019). The Besor Basin Prehistoric Survey: Initial Results. Mitekufat Haeven, Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 49: 63-79.

Ekshtain, R., Ariel Malinsky-Buller, Noam Greenbaum, Netta Mitki, Nuha Aga, Nadav Nir, Reuven Yeshurun, Ella Been, Yoel Rak, Naomi Porat, Masha Krakovsky, Ariel Vered, Polina Spivak, Micka Ullman, Lena Brailovsky, Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, et al. (2019). Persistent Neanderthal occupation of the open-air site of ‘Ein Qashish, Israel. PLoS ONE 14(6): e0215668. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215668

Bar-Yosef Mayer, Daniella E. and Marjolein D. Bosch. (2019). Humans’ Earliest Personal Ornaments: An Introduction. PaleoAnthropology 2019:19-23. doi:10.4207/PA.2019.ART121

Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. (2019), Upper Palaeolithic explorers: The geographic sources of shell beads in Early Upper Palaeolithic assemblages in Israel. PaleoAnthropology 2019: 105−115. doi:10.4207/PA.2019.ART126

Birkenfeld, Michal, Liora Kolska Horwitz, Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, Jerry Bond, Erika Guttmann-Bond, Linda S. Cummings, Hadas Goldgeier, Maria Krakovsky, Filipe Natalio, et al. (2019). Investigations at Naḥal Roded 110: a Late Neolithic ritual site in the southern Negev. Antiquity 93 367, e4: 1–8. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2019.6

Bar-Yosef Mayer, D. E. (2019). Mollusk Shells at Kebara Cave, in The Upper and Middle Paleolithic Archaeology of Kebara Cave, Mt. Carmel, Part II.  Edited by L. Meignen and O. Bar-Yosef. Peabody Museum Publications, Cambridge MA. pp. 403-412.

Bar-Yosef Mayer, D. E., S. Paz and Y. Paz, (2019), Conus ornaments from Tel Bareqet in an Early Bronze Age Near East context. In: Studies in Archaeology and Ancient Cultures in Honor of Isaac Gilead, edited by Haim Goldfus, Mayer I. Gruber, Shamir Yona and Peter Fabian. Oxford: Archaeopress. pp. 210-215.