Publications (2006)
Ahyong, S.T., Galil, B.S.  2006.  First Mediterranean record of the Indo-West Pacific mantis shrimp, Clorida albolitura Ahyong & Naiyanetr, 2000 (Stomatopoda, Squillidae) Aquat. Invasions, 1(3):191-193

Ahyong,S.T., Galil, B.S.  2006.  Polychelidae from the southern and western Pacific (Decapoda,Polychelida). Zoosystema, 28(3):757-767

Alster, A., Dubinsky, Z., Zohary,T.  2006.  Encystment of Peridinium gatunense: occurrence, favourable environmental conditions and its role in the dinoflagellate life cycle in a subtropical lake. Freshw. Biol., 51(7):1219-1228

Alster,A., Zohary, T., Dubinsky, Z.  2006.  Peridinium gatunense cyst type, abundance and germination in Lake Kinneret. Verh. Int. Ver. Limnol., 29(4):2083-2086

Appelbaum, L., Vallone, D., Anzulovich, A., Ziv, L., Tom, M., Foulkes, N.S., Gothilf, Y.  2006.  Zebrafish arylalkylamine-N-acetyltransferase genes – targets for regulation of the circadian clock. J. Mol. Endocrinol., 36:337-347

Arvanitidis, C., Valavanis, V.D., Eleftheriou, A., Costello, M.J., Faulwetter, S., Gotsis, P., Kitsos, M.S., Kirmtzoglou, I., Zenetos, A., Petrov, A., Galil, B., Papageorgiou, N.  2006.  MedOBIS: biogeographic information system for the eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser., 316:225-230

Ben-Shlomo, R., Paz, G., Rinkevich, B.  2006. Postglacial-period and recent invasions shape the population genetics of botryllid ascidians along European Atlantic coasts. Ecosystems, 9:1118-1127

Beresovsky, D., Hadas, O., Livne, A., Sukenik, A., Kaplan, A., Carmeli, S.
2006. Toxins and biologically active secondary metabolites of Microsystis sp. isolated from Lake Kinneret. Isr. J. Chem., 46(1):79-87

Blum, S., Aviram, M., Ben-Amotz, A., Levy, Y. 2006.  Effect of a Mediterranean meal on postprandial carotenoids, paraoxonase activity and C-reactive protein levels. Ann. Nutr. Metab., 50(1):20-24

Bruce, L.C., Hamilton, D., Imberger, J., Gal, G., Gophen, M., Zohary, T., Hambright, K.D.  2006.  A numerical simulation of the role of zooplankton in C , N and P cycling in Lake Kinneret, Israel. Ecol. Model., 193(3-4):412-436

Cannicci, S., Galil, B.S.  2006.  Racing across the Mediterranean – first record of Percnon gibbesi (Crustacea: Decapoda: Grapsidae) in Greece. JMBA2 – Biodiversity Records, 2 p:

Carnevali, O., Cionna, C., Tosti, L., Lubzens, E., Maradonna, F.  2006.  Role of cathepsins in ovarian follicle growth and maturation. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol., 146(3):195-203

Diamant, A., Bartholomew, J.  2006.  Myxozoan parasites and diseases. Bull. Eur. Ass. Pathol., 26(1):50-52

Diamant, A., Ram, S , Paperna, I. 2006. Experimental transmission of Enteromyxum leei to freshwater fish. Dis. Aquat. Org., 72(2):171-178

Eshchar, M., Lahav, O., Mozes, N., Peduel, A., Ron, B.  2006.  Intensive fish culture at high ammonium and low pH. Aquaculture, 255:301-313

Fabra, M., Raldua, D., Bozzo, M.G., Deen, P.M.T., Lubzens, E., Cerda,J.  2006.  Yolk proteolysis and aquaporin-1o play essential roles to regulate fish oocyte hydration during meiosis resumption. Dev. Biol., 295(1):250-262

Forsman, Z.H., Rinkevich, B., Hunter, C.L.  2006. Investigating fragment size for culturing reef-building corals (Porites lobata and P. compressa) in ex situ nurseries. Aquaculture, 261:89-97

Friedlander, M., Kosov, Y., Keret, G., Dawes, C.  2006.  Production of rhizoids by Caulerpa prolifera in culture. Aquat. Bot., 85(3):263-266

Fuchs, Y., Douek, J., Rinkevich, B., Ben-Shlomo, R.  2006.  Gene diversity and mode of reproduction in the brooded larvae of the coral Heteroxenia fuscescens. J. Hered., 97(5):493-498

Funkenstein, B., 2006. Production of recombinant hormones and growth factors for use in aquaculture. Isr. J. Aquacult. Bamidgeh, 58(4):320-322

Funkenstein, B., Balas, V., Skopal, T., Radaelli, G., Rowlerson, A. 2006. Long-term culture of muscle explants from Sparus aurata. Tissue Cell, 38(6):399-415

Gal, G., Rudstam, L.G., Mills, E.L., Lantry, J.R., Johannsson, O.E., Greene, C.H.   2006. Mysid and fish zooplanktivory in Lake Ontarion: quantification of direct and indirect effects Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci., 63(12):2734-2747

Galil, B.S.  2006.  Contributions to the knowledge of Leucosiidae V. Soceulia gen. nov. (Crustacea: Brachyura). Zool. Med. Leiden, 80-4(5):55-69

Galil, B.S.  2006.  Contributions to the knowledge of Leucosiidae VI. Soceulia gen. nov. (Crustacea: Brachyura). Zool. Med. Leiden, 80-4(6):71-79

Galil, B.S.  2006.  Shipwrecked: shipping impacts on the biota of the Mediterranean Sea. In: Davenport, J.L., Davenport, J. (Eds.), The ecology of transportation: managing mobility for the environment. (Environmental pollution, 10). Springer, pp. 39-69

Galil, B.S., Clark, P.F., Ng, P.K.L., Falciai, L.  2006. Actumnus globulus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pilumnidae) – another Erythrean pilumnid in the Mediterranean. JMBA2 – Biodiversity Records, 4 p

Galil, B.S., Minchin, D.  2006.  Snakes and ladders: navigable waterways as invasive corridors. In: Davenport, J.L., Davenport, J. (Eds.), The ecology of transportation: managing mobility for the environment. (Environmental pollution, 10). Springer, pp. 71-75

Gertman, I., Murashkovsky, A., Levin, V., Kallos, G., Rosen, D.S.  2006.  Wave monitoring and wind input as key issues in operational wave forecasting systems. In: Dahlin, H., Flemming, N.C., Marchand, P., Petersson, S.E. (Eds.), European operational oceanography: present and future. EuroGOOS and European Commission, pp. 743-749

Gertman, I., Pinardi, N., Popov, Y., Hecht, A.  2006.  Aegean Sea water masses during the early stages of the Eastern Mediterranean Climatic Transient (1988-90). J. Phys. Oceanogr., 36(9):1841-1859

Gollasch, S., Galil, B.S., Cohen, A.N.  2006.  Bridging divides: maritime canals as invasion corridors. (Monographiae Biologicae, 83). Springer, 315 p.

Gordon, N., Neori, A., Shpigel, M., Lee, J., Harpaz, S. 2006.  Effect of diatom diets on growth and survival of the abelone Haliotis discus hannai postlarvae. Aquaculture, 252:225-233

Goren, M., Galil, B.S.  2006.  Additional records of Bregmaceros atlanticus in the eastern Mediterranean – an invasion through the Suez Canal or in ballast water? JMBA2 – Biodiversity Records, 2 p

Goren, M., Mienis, H.K., Galil, B.S.  2006.  Not so poor – more deep-sea records from the Levant Sea, Eastern Mediterranean JMBA2 – Biodiversity Records, 4 p

Hambright, D., Zohary, T.  2006.  Lake Kinneret and water supply in Israel: ecological limits to operational supply. In: Hambright, D., Ragep, F.J., Ginat, J. (Eds.), Water in the Middle East: cooperation and technological solutions in the Jordan Valley. Sussex Academic Press, pp. 111-124

Israel, A., Levy, Y., Friedlander, M.  2006.  Experimental tank cultivation of Porphyra in Israel. J. Appl. Phycol., 18(3-5):235-240

Kalikhman, I.L., Yudanov, K.I.  2006.  Acoustic fish reconnaissance. (Marine science, 32). CRC, 272 p.

Kamenir, Y., Dubinsky, Z., Zohary, T.  2006.  The long-term patterns of phytoplankton taxonomic size-structure and their sensitivity to perturbation: a Lake Kinneret case study. Aquat. Sci., 68(4):490-501

Klas, S., Mozes, N., Lahav, O.  2006.  A conceptional, stoichiometry-based model for single-sludge denitrification in recirculating aquaculture systems. Aquaculture, 259:328-341

Klas, S., Mozes, N., Lahav,O.  2006.  Development of a single-sludge denitrification method for nitrate removal from RAS effluents: Lab-scale results vs. model predictition. Aquaculture, 259:342-353

Kunstmann, H., Heckl, A., Rimmer, A.  2006.  Physically based distributed hydrological modelling of the Upper Jordan catchment and investigation of effective model equations. Adv. Geosci., 9:123-130

Lai, J.C.Y., Galil, B.  2006.  A new species of Mursia Desmarest, 1823 (Crustacea: Decapoda:Calappidae) from the Andaman Sea. Zootaxa, 1255:57-61

Lapidot, Z., Rinkevich, B.  2006.  Development of monoclonal antibodies specific to urochordate intracellular epitopes. Cell Biol. Int., 30(2):190-195

Levy, O., Achituv, Y., Yacobi, Y.Z., Dubinsky, Z., Stambler, N.  2006.  Diel ‘tuning’ of coral Metabolism: physiological responses to light cues. J. Exp. Biol., 209:273-283

Levy, O., Achituv, Y., Yacobi, Y.Z., Stambler, N., Dubinsky, Z.  2006.  The impact of spectral composition and light periodicity on the activity of two antioxidant enzymes (SOD and CAT) in the coral Favia favus. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol., 328:35-46

Morais, S., Torten, M., Nixon, O., Lutzky, S., Conceicao, L.E.C., Dinis, M.T., Tandler, A., Koven, W.  2006.  Food intake and absorption are affected by dietary lipid level and lipid source in seabream (Sparus aurata L.) larvae. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol., 331:51-63

Ostrovsky, I., Rimmer,A., Agnon, Y., Koren, N.,  2006.  Sedimentation rates in the hypolimnion of Lake Kinneret(Israel): the impact of water level reduction. Verh.  Int.  Ver.  Limnol., 29(3):1625-1629

Parparov, A., Hambright, K.D., Hakanson, L., Ostapenia, A.  2006.  Water quality quantification: basics and implementation. Hydrobiologia, 560:227-237

Patruno, M., Maccatrozzo, L., Funkenstein, B., Radaelli, G.  2006.  Cloning and expression of insulin-like growth factors I and II in the shi drum (Umbrina cirrosa). Comp. Biochem. Physiol. B:Biochem. Mol. Biol., 144(2):137-151

Quesada, A., Moreno, E., Carrasco, D., Paniagua, T., Wormer, L., de Hoyos, C., Sukenik, A.  2006.  Toxicity of Aphanizomenon ovalisporum (Cyanobacteria) in a Spanish water reservoir. Eur. J. Phycol., 41(1):39-45

Rabinowitz, C., Douek, J., Weisz, R., Shabtay, A., Rinkevich, B.  2006. Isolation and characterization of four novel thraustochytrid strains from a colonial tunicate. Indian J. Mar. Sci., 35(4):341-350

Ranger, B.S., Mahrous, E.A., Mosi, L., Adusumilli, S., Lee, R.E., Colorni, A., Rhodes, M., Small, P.L.C.  2006.  Globally distributed mycobacterial fish pathogens produce a novel plasmid-encoded toxic macrolide, mycolactone F. Infect. Immun., 74(11):6037-6045

Raz-Bahat, M., Erez, J., Rinkevich, B.  2006.  In vivo light-microscopic documentation for primary calcification processes in the hermatypic coral Stylophora pistillata. Cell Tissue Res., 325(2):361-368

Rimmer, A.  2006.  Empirical classification of stratification patterns in warm monomictic lakes. Verh. Int. Ver Limnol., 29(4):1773-1776

Rimmer, A., Boger, M., Aota, Y., Kumagai, M.  2006.  A lake as a natural integrator of linear processes: application to Lake Kinneret (Israel) and Lake Biwa (Japan). J. Hydrol., 319:(1-4):163-175

Rimmer, A., Eckert, W., Nishri, A., Agnon, Y.  2006.  Evaluating hypolimnetic diffusion parameters in thermally stratified lakes. Limnol.Oceanogr., 51(4):1906-1914

Rimmer, A ., Salingar, Y.  2006. Modelling precipitaion-stream flow processes in karst basin: The case of the Jordan River sources, Israel.  J. Hydrol., 331(3-4):524-542

Rinkevich, B. 2006. The coral gardening concept and the use of underwater nurseries: lessons learned from silvics and silviculture. In: Precht, W.F. (ed.), Coral reef restoration handbook. CRC, pp. 291-300

Ron, B.  2006.  Effects of genetic and environmental factors on sex differentiation in the European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax). Isr. J. Aquacult. Bamidgeh, 58(4):366-372

Rosner, A., Paz, G., Rinkevich, B.  2006.  Divergent roles of the DEAD-box protein BS-PL10, the urochordate homologue of human DDX3 and DDX3Y proteins, in colony astogeny and ontogeny. Dev. Dyn., 235(6):1508-1521

Segev, A., Rybakov, M., Lyakhovsky, V., Hofstetter, A., Tibor, G., Goldshmidt, V., Ben Avraham, Z.  2006.  The structure, isostasy and gravity field of the Levant continental margin and the southeast Mediterraean area. Tectonophysics, 425(1-4):137-157

Shafir, S., Van Rijn, J., Rinkevich, B. 2006  A mid-water coral nursery. In: Proceedings of the 10^th International Coral Reef Symposium, pp. 1674-1679

Shafir, S., Van Rijn,J., Rinkevich, B.  2006.  Coral nubbins as a source material for coral biological research: a prospectus. Aquaculture, 259:444-448

Shafir, S., Van Rijn, J., Rinkevich, B.  2006.  Steps in the construction of underwater coral nursery, an essential component in reef restoration acts. Mar.Biol.,149(3):679-687

Shaish, A., Harari, A., Hananshvili, L., Cohen, H., Bitzur, R., Luvish, T., Ulman, E., Golan, M., Ben-Amotz, A. Gavish, D., Rotstein, Z., Harats, D.  2006.   9-cisb-carotene-rich powder of the alga Dunaliella bardawil increases plasma HDL-cholesterol in fibrate-treated patients. Atherosclerosis, 189(1):215-221

Shaish, L., Abelson, A., Rinkevich, B.  2006.  Branch to colony trajectory in a modular organism: Pattern formation in the Indo-Pacific coral Stylophora pistillata. Dev.Dyn.,235(8):2111-2121

Shpigel, M., Schlosser, S.C., Ben-Amotz, A., Lawrence, A.L., Lawrence, J.M. 2006.  Effects of dietary carotenoid on the gut and the gonad of the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus. Aquaculture, 261:1269-1280

Silphaduang, U., Colorni, A ., Noga, E.J.  2006.   Evidence for widespread distribution of piscidin antimicrobial peptides in teleost fish.
Dis. Aquat. Org., 72:241-252

Simon-Blecher, N., Hanania, J., Achituv, Y., Rinkevich, B.  2006.  Fine structure of naive and allogeneic challenged ampullae in Botrylloides subpopulation I from the Mediterranean coast of Israel. Mar. Biol., 148(5):987-996

Sukenik, A., Reisner, M., Carmeli, S., Werman, M.  2006.  Oral toxicity of the cyanobacterial toxin cylindrospermopsin in mice: long-term exposure to low doses. Environ. Toxicol., 21(6):575-582

Thingstad, T.F., Law, C.S., Krom, M.D., Mantoura, R.F.C., Pitta, P., Psarra, S.,  Rassoulzadegan, F., Tanaka, T., Wassman, P., Wexels Riser, C., Zohary, T. 2006.  Response to comment on “nature of phosphorus limitation in the ultraoligotrophic Eastern Mediterranean”. Science, 312:1748d

Usvyatsov, S., Zohary, T.  2006.  Lake Kinneret continuos time-depth chlorophyll record highlights major phytoplankton events.
Verh.  Int.  Ver.  Limnol., 29(3):1131-1134

Weinstein, Y., Less, G., Kafri, U., Herut, B.  2006.  Submarine groundwater discharge in the southeastern Mediterranean (Israel). In: International Conference on Isotopes and Environmental Studies, Aquatic Forum, Monaco, October 25-29, 2004.(Radioactivity in the environment, 8). Elsevier, pp. 360-372

Yacobi,Y.Z.  2006.  Temporal and vertical variation of chlorophyll a concentration, phytoplankton photosynthetic activity and light attenuation in Lake Kinneret: possibilities and limitations for simulation by remotesensing.
J. Plankton Res., 28(8):725-736

Yokes, B., Galil, B.S.  2006.  New records of alien decapods (Crustacea) from the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, with a description of a new palaemonid species. Zoosystema, 28(3):747-755

Yokes, B., Galil, B.S.  2006.  Touchdown - first record ofPercnon gibbesi (H. Milne Edwards, 1853) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Grapsidae) from the Levantine coast. Aquat. Invasions, 1(3):130-132

Yokes, B., Galil, B.S.  2006.  The first record of the needle-spined urchin Diadema setosum (Leske, 1778) (Echinodermata: Echinoidea: Diadematidae) from the Mediterranean Sea. Aquat. Invasions,1(3):188-190

Zilberman-Peled, B., Ron, B., Gross, A., Finberg, J.P.M., Gothilf, Y.  2006.  A possible new role for fish retinal serotonin-N-acetyltransferase-1 (AANAT1): dopamine metabolism. Brain Res., 1073-1074:220-228

Zmora, O., Shpigel, M.  2006.  Intensive mass production of Artemia in a recirculated system. Aquaculture,255:488-494