Publications (2008)
Almuly, R., Skopal, T., Funkenstein, B.   2008. Regulatory regions in the promoter and first intron of Sparus aurata growth hormone gene: repression of gene activity by a polymorphic minisatellite. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. (D)., 3(1):43-50.

Amar, K.O., Chadwick, N.E., Rinkevich, B. 2008. Coral kin aggregations exhibit mixed allogeneic reactions and enhanced fitness during early ontogeny. BMC Evol. Biol., 8:126

Amar, K.O., Douek, J., Rabinowitz, C., Rinkevich, B. 2008. Employing of the amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) methodology as an efficent population genetic tool for symbiotic cnidarians. Mar. Biotechnol., 10(4):350-357

Atanasova, N., Gal, G., Kompare, B.  2008.  Modelling dinoflagellate dynamics in Lake Kinneret. Verh. Int. Ver. Limnol., 30(1):100-104

Auslander, M., Yudkovski, Y., Chalifa-Caspi, V., Herut, B., Ophir, R., Reinhardt, R., Neumann, P.M., Tom, M. 2008. Pollution-affected fish hepatic transcriptome and its expression patterns on exposure to cadmium. Mar. Biotechnol., 10(3):250-261

Ben-Shlomo, R., Motro, U., Paz, G., Rinkevich, B.   2008. Pattern of settlement and natural chimerism in the colonial urochordate Botryllus schlosseri. Genetica, 132(1):51-58

Cohen, A., Shmoish, M., Levi, L., Cheruti, U., Levavi-Sivan, B. , Lubzens, E. 2008. Alterations in micro-ribonucleic acid expression profiles reveal a novel pathway for estrogen regulation. Endocrinology, 149(4):1687-1695

Colorni, A., Ullai, A., Heinisch, G., Noga, E.J. 2008. Activity of the antimicrobial polypeptide piscidin 2 against fish ectoparasites. J. Fish Dis., 31 (1): 423- 432

Cuadrado, M., Marques, A., Diamant, A., Sitja-Bobadilla, A., Palenzuela, O., Alvarez-Pellitero, P., Padros, F., Crespo, S.  2008. Ultrastructure of Enteromyxum leei (Diamant, Lom, Dykova , 1994) (Myxozoa), an enteric parasite infecting gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) and sharpsnout sea bream (Diplodus puntazzo). J. Euk. Microbiol., 55(3):178-184

Eckert, W., Yacobi, Y.Z. 2008. Nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics during Peridinium gatunense (Dinoflagellata) blooms in Lake Kinneret. Verh. Int. Ver. Limnol., 30(1):42-45

Gordon, N., Colorni, A. 2008.  Prymnesium parvum, an ichthyotoxic alga in an ornamental fish farm in southern Israel. Isr. J. Aquacult. Bamidgeh, 60(1):5-8

Junier, P., Kim, O.-K., Witzel, K.-P., Imhoff, J.F., Hadas, O.   2008. Habitat partitioning of denitrifying bacterial communities carrying nirS or nirK genes in the stratified water column of Lake Kinneret, Israel. Aquat. Microbial. Ecol., 51:129-140

Kamenir, Y., Winder, M., Dubinsky, Z., Zohary, T., Schladow, G. 2008. Lake Tahoe vs. Lake Kinneret phytoplankton: comparison of long-term taxonomic size structure consistency. Aquat. Sci., 70:195-203

Kvitt, H., Heinisch, G., Diamant, A. 2008. Detection and phylogeny of Lymphocystivirus in sea bream Sparus aurata based on the DNA polymerase gene and major capsid protein sequences. Aquaculture, 275:58-63

Litaor, M.I., Eshel, G., Sade, R., Rimmer, A., Shenker, M. 2008. Hydrogeological characterization of an altered wetland. J. Hydrol., 349(3-4):333-349

Ostrovsky, I., McGinnis, D.F., Lapidus, L., Eckert, W. 2008. Quantifying  gas ebullition with echosounder: the role of methane transport by bubbles in a medium-sized lake. Limnol. Oceanogr. Methods, 6:105-118

Ostrovsky, I., Sukenik, A.  2008. Spatial heterogeneity of biogeochemical parameters in a subtropical lake. In: Mohanty, P.K., (Ed.), Monitoring and modelling lakes and coastal environments. Springer, pp. 79-90

Patruno, M., Sivieri, S., Poltronieri, C., Sacchetto, R., Maccatrozzo, L., Martinello, T., Funkenstein, B., Radaelli, G. 2008.  Real-time polymerase chain reaction, in situ hybridization and immunohistochemical localization of insulin-like growth factor-I and myostatin during development of Dicentrarchus labrax (Pisces: Osteichthyes). Cell Tissue Res., 331(3):643-658

Perlberg, S.T., Diamant, A., Ofir, R., Zilberg, D. 2008. Characterization of swim bladder non-inflation (SBN) in angelfish, Pterophyllum scalare (Schultz), and the effect of exposure to methylene blue. J. Fis Dis., 31(3):215-228

Radaelli, G., Poltronieri, C., Bertotto, D., Funkenstein, B., Simontacci, C. 2008.  Cellular localization of insulin-like growth factor II protein in the sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) from hatching to adult. Histol. Histopathol., 23(5):523-530

Shafir, S., Gur, O., Rinkevich, B.  2008.  A Drupella cornus outbreak in the northern Gulf of Eilat and changes in coral prey. Coral Reefs, 27(2):379

Shaish, L., Levy, G., Gomez, E., Rinkevich, B. 2008. Fixed and suspended coral nurseries in the Philippines: establishing the first step in the “gardening concept” of reef restoration. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol., 358:86-97

Shalev-Malul, G., Lieman-Hurwitz, J., Viner-Mozzini,Y., Sukenik, A., Gaathon, A., Lebendiker, M., Kaplan, A. 2008. An AbrB-like protein might be involved in the regulation of cylindrospermopsin production by Aphanizomenon ovalisporum. Environ. Microbiol., 10(4):988-999

Yacobi, Y.Z., Nishri, A.  2008. Cellular phosphorus charging: the distinctive case of the bloom-forming dinoflagellate Peridinium gatunense (Dinophyceae). Verh. Int. Ver. Limnol., 30(1):46-49

Yudkovski,Y., Rogowska-Wrzesinska, A., Yankelevich, I., Shefer, E.,  Herut, B., Tom, M. 2008. Quantitative immunochemical evaluation of fish metallothionein upon exposure to cadmium. Mar. Environ. Sci., 65:427-436