HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM

The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment

DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY

Boaz Yuval, Ph.D

Professor of Entomology

Department Of Entomology
The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment
P.O Box 12, Rehovot 76100, ISRAEL
Tel: 972-8-9489419
Fax: 972-8-9466768
e-mail address: yuval@agri.huji.ac.il

Research Areas:

Current teaching activities:

Undergraduate

Introduction to Entomology

Introduction to Entomology (laboratory)

Soil Biology

Undergraduate Seminar

Graduate

Reproductive Behavior of Insects

Plant Protection Seminar

Current Research Projects:

Manipulation of the post teneral environment to increase sexual competitiveness and survival of male Mediterranean fruit flies.

Bacteria - Fruit fly interactions

Functional and evolutionary aspects of sperm storage in Mediterranean Fruit flies.

Current Graduate Students:

Yael Aharon
Michael Ben-Yosef
Sagi Gavriel
Tal Paran

Past Graduate Students:

Adi Bechar
Eyal Ben-Ami
Sigal Blay
Hadass Cohen
Daniel Glicksman
Roy Kaspi
Karmit Levy
Meyrav Maor
Sigalit Mossinson
Yair Perry
Liora Shaaltiel-Harpaz
Eyal Twig
Meyrav Warburg
Amit Yigal

Representative Publications:

a. Book Chapters and Review Articles:

Yuval B. 1992. The other habit- sugar feeding by mosquitoes. Bulletin of the Society for Vector Ecology 17:150-156.

Yuval, B., & J. Hendrichs. 2000. Behavior of flies in the genus Ceratitis. pp. 429-456. In: Fruit Flies (Tephritidae): Phylogeny and Evolution of Behavior. (Aluja, M. & A. Norrbom, eds), CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.

Yuval, B., R. Kaspi, S.A. Field, S. Blay, and P. Taylor. 2002. Effects of post-teneral nutrition on reproductive success of male Mediterranean fruit flies. Florida Entomologist 85: 165-170.

Yuval, B. Mating systems of blood feeding flies. 2006. Annual Review of Entomology 51: 413-440.

Yuval, B., M. Maor, K. Levy, R Kaspi, P Taylor and T.E. Shelly. 2007. Breakfast of champions or kiss of death - survival and sexual performance of protein fed sterile Mediterranean fruit flies. Florida Entomologist 90: 115-122.

b. Research articles:

Yuval B. & A. Spielman. 1990. Duration and regulation of the developmental cycle of Ixodes dammini (Acari: Ixodidae). Journal of Medical Entomology 27:196-201.

Yuval B. & A. Bouskila. 1993. Temporal dynamics of mating and predation in mosquito swarms. Oecologia 95:65-69.

Blay, S., & B. Yuval. 1997. Nutritional correlates of reproductive success of male Mediterranean fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae). Animal Behaviour 54:59-66.

Yuval, B., R. Kaspi, S. Shloush & M.S. Warburg. 1998. Nutritional reserves regulate male participation in Mediterranean fruit fly leks. Ecological Entomology 23:211-215.

Kaspi, R. & B. Yuval. 1999. Mediterranean fruit fly leks: factors affecting male location. Functional Ecology 13: 539-545.

Taylor P.W. & B. Yuval. 1999. Post-copulatory sexual selection in the Mediterranean fruit fly: advantages for large and protein fed males. Animal Behaviour 58: 247-254.

Mossinson, S. and B. Yuval. 2003. Regulation of sexual receptivity of female Mediterranean fruit flies: old hypotheses revisited and a new synthesis proposed. Journal of Insect Physiology 49: 561-567.

Twig, E. & B.Yuval. 2005. Function of multiple sperm storage organs in female Mediterranean fruit flies (Ceratitis capitata, Diptera: Tephritidae). Journal of Insect Physiology 51: 67-74.

Behar, A., E. Jurkevitch & B. Yuval. 2008. Bringing back the fruit to fruit fly-bacteria interactions. Molecular Ecology, 17, 1375-1386.

Ben-Yosef, M., Jurkevitch, E. & Yuval B. 2008. Effect of bacteria on nutritional status and reproductive success of the Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata. Physiological Entomology 33, 145-154.

Ben-Ami, E., B. Yuval & E. Jurkevitch. 2010. Manipulation of the microbiota of mass-reared Mediterranean fruit flies Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae) improves sterile male sexual performance. The ISME Journal 4: 28-37.

Ben-Yosef, M., Jurkevitch, E. Aharon, Y & 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.