Selected & recent publications

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Ben-Yosef M, Aharon, Y, Jurkevitch E, Yuval, B. (2010). Give us the tools and we will do the job: symbiotic bacteria affect olive fly fitness in a diet-dependent fashion. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277: 1545-1552.

Ben-Yosef M, Pasternak Z, Jurkevitch E, Yuval B. (2014). Symbiotic bacteria enable olive flies (Bactrocera oleae) to exploit intractable sources of nitrogen. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 27: 2695-2705.

Ben-Yosef M, Pasternak Z, Jurkevitch E, Yuval B. (2015). Symbiotic bacteria allow olive fly larvae to overcome host defences. Royal Society Open Science 2: 150170.

Ben-Yosef M*, Zaada DSY*, Dudaniec RY, Pasternak Z, Jurkevitch E, Smith RJ, Causton CE, Lincango PM, Tobe SS, Mitchell JG., Kleindorfer S, Yuval B. (2017). Host-specific associations affect the microbiome of Philornis downsi, an introduced parasite to the Galápagos Islands. Molecular Ecology 26: 4644–4656.

Polpass AJ, Ben-Yosef M, Jurkevitch E, Yuval B. (2019). Symbiotic bacteria affect oviposition behavior in the olive fruit fly Bactrocera oleae. Journal of insect physiology, 117, 103917.

Ben-Yosef M, Rot A, Mahagna M, Kapri E, Behar A, Gottlieb Y. (2020). Coxiella-like endosymbiont of Rhipicephalus sanguineus is required for physiological processes during ontogeny. Frontiers in microbiology, 11, 493.

Polpass AJ, Ben‐Yosef M, Lahuatte P, Causton CE, Heimpel GE, Jurkevitch E, Yuval B. (2021). Shifting microbiomes complement life stage transitions and diet of the bird parasite Philornis downsi from the Galapagos Islands. Environmental microbiology.