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The Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Publications
Books and Book Chapters
Jurkevitch, E. 2011. Insect "symbiology" is coming of age, bridging between bench and field. In Benefici Microorganisms in Multicellular Life Forms. Rosenberg, E., and U. Gophna (eds).Springer-Verlag.
Jurkevitch,E. 2010. Evolution andconsequences of nutrition-based symbioses in insects: more than food stress. In Symbiosis and Stress. Seckbach, J.,and M. Grube(eds). Series:Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology. Springer, Dordrecht,The Netherlands.
Buée, M., De Boer, W., Martin, F., van Overbeek, L., and E. Jurkevitch. 2009. The rhizosphere zoo: An overview of plant-associated communities of microorganisms, including phages, bacteria, archaea, and fungi, and of some of their structuring factors. Plant and Soil. 321:189-212 . doi 10.1007/s11104-009-9991-3.
Jurkevitch, E. 2009. Predatory Behavior in Bacteria. In: McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology 2009.McGraw-Hill, USA.
Yuval, B., Ben-Yosef, M., Ben-Ami, E., Behar, A., and E. Jurkevich, E. 2008. The role of microorganisms in enhancing reproductive success of the Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae). In: 7th meeting of the working group on fruit flies of the Western hemisphere (eds P.M. Montoya Gerardo, F. Diaz Fleischer & S. Flores Breceda), pp. 90-92, Mazatlan, Mexico.
Behar, A., Ben-Yosef, M., Lauzon, C.R., Yuval, B., and E. Jurkevich. Structure and function of the bacterial community associated with the Mediterranean fruit fly. In Insect Symbiosis. Bourtzis, K. and T. Miller (eds). CRC., Boca Raton.
Predatory Prokaryotes - Biology, Ecology, and Evolution. 2007. Jurkevitch E. (ed.). Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.
Jurkevitch, E. Isolation and classification of Bdellovibrio and like organisms. 2006. In Current Protocols in Microbiology. Coico, R., Kowalik, T., Quarles, J., Stevenson, B., and R. Taylor (eds). John Wiley and Sons. N.Y.
Burdman, S., Kadouri, D., Jurkevitch, E. and Y. Okon. 2001. Bacterial phytostimulators in the rhizosphere: from research to application. In G. Bitton (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Environmental Microbiology. Wiley & Sons, New York
Jurkevitch, E. 2000. The genus Bdellovibrio. In: Dworkin, M., Flakow, S., Rosenberg, E. Schleifer, K.H., and E. Stackebrandt (eds.). The Prokaryotes. Springer-Verlag, New York
Burdman, S., Jurkevitch, E. and Y. Okon. 2000. Involvement of extracellular components in the aggregation of Azospirillum brasilense. pp. 415-416. In F.O. Pedrosa et al. (eds.), Nitrogen Fixation: From Molecules to Crop Productivity. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Burdman, S., Jurkevitch, E. and Y. Okon. 2000. Recent advances in the use of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) in agriculture. pp. 227-248. In N. S. Subba Rao and Y. R. Dommergues (eds.). Microbial Interactions in Agriculture and Forestry, Vol. 2. Science Publishers, Enfield, US
Peer-Reviewed (since 2003) (a complete list is available here)
Jurkevitch, E. 2011. Riding the Trojan horse: combating pest insects with their own symbionts. Microbial Biotechnology. Microbial Biotechnology.4, 620-627 pdf
Gavriel, S., Jurkevitch, E., Gazit. Y., and Yuval,B. 2011. Bacterially enriched diet improves sexual performance of sterile male Mediterranean fruit flies. Journal of Applied Entomology doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0418.2010.01605.x (J Appl Entomol 2011) pdf
Yuval, B., Ben-Ami, E., Behar, A., Ben-Yosef, M., and E. Jurkevitch. 2010. The Mediterranean fruit fly and its bacteria – potential for improving sterile insect technique operations. Journal of Applied Entomology. doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0418.2010.01555.x (J Appl Entomol 2010) pdf
Wurtzel, O., Dori-Bachash,M., Pietrokovski, S., Jurkevitch, E., and R. Sorek. 2010. Mutation detectionwith next-generation resequencing through a mediator genome. PLoS One. 5(12): e15628.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0015628. (PLoS One 2010) pdf
Baudoin, E., Lerner, A., Sajjat, M., El Zemrany, H., Prigent-Combaret, C., Jurkevitch, E., Spaepen, S., Vanderleyden, J., Nazaret, S., Okon, Y., and Y., Moenne-Loccoz. 2010. Effets of Azospirillum brasilense with genetically modified auxing biosynthes is gene ipdC upon the diversity of the indigenous microbiota of the wheat rhizosphere. Research in Microbiology. 161:219-226 (Res Microbiol 2010). pdf
Ben-Yosef, M., Aharon, Y., Jurkevitch, E., and 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.(Proc. R. Soc. 2010) pdf
Ben Ami, E., Yuval, B., and E. Jurkevitch. 2009. Manipulation of the microbiota of mass-reared Mediterranean fruit flies Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae) improves sterile male sexual performance. ISME Journal. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2009.82 4:28-37. pdf
Van Essche, M., Sliepen, I., Loozen, G., Van Eldere, J., Quirynen, M., Davidov, Y., Jurkevitch, E., and Teughels, W. 2009. Development and performance of a quantitative PCR for the enumeration of Bdellovibrionaceae. Environmental Microbiology Reports.4: 228-233. pdf
Davidov, Y., and Jurkevitch, E. Predation between prokaryotes and the origin of eukaryotes. BioEssay. 31:748-57 pdf
Dori-Bachash, M., Dassa, B, Pineiro, S., Jurkevitch, E. and Pietrokovski, S. 2009. Bacterial intein-like domains specific to predatory bacteria: a new domain type characterized in Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. Functional and Integrative Genomics. 9:153-166 pdf
Behar, A., Yuval, B. and E. Jurkevitch. 2008. Community structure of the Mediterranean fruit fly microbiota: Seasonal and spatial sources of variation. Israel Journal of Ecology & Evolution. 54:181:191. pdf
Ben-Yosef, M., Behar, A., Jurkevitch, E., and Yuval, B. 2008. Bacteria-diet interactions affect longevity in the medfly Ceratitus capitata. Journal of Applied Entomology. 132:690–694. pdf
Dori-Bachash, M., Dassa, B, Pietrokovski, S., and E. Jurkevitch. 2008. Proteome-based comparative analyses of growth stages reveal new cell-cycle dependent functions in the predatory bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 74:7152-7162. pdf
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Behar, A., Yuval, B and Jurkevitch, E. 2008. Gut bacterial communities in the Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata) and their impact on host longevity. Journal of Insect Physiology :1377-1383. pdf
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Qvit-Raz,N., Jurkevitch, E., Belkin, 2008. S. Drop-size Soda Lakes: Transient microbial habitats on a salt-secreting desert tree. Genetics. 178:1615-1622. pdf
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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 pdf
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Behar, A., Jurkevitch, E., Yuval, B. 2008. Bringing back the fruit into fruit fly-bacteria interactions. Molecular Ecology. 17:1375-1386 pdf
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Castro-Sowinski, S., Herschkovitz, Y., Okon, Y., and E. Jurkevitch. 2007. Effects of inoculation with plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria on resident rhizosphere microorganisms. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 276:1-11. pdf
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Jurkevitch, E. 2007. Predatory behaviors in bacteria - Diversity and transitions. Microbe Magazine (The ASM News Magazine). 2:67-73. pdf
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Davidov, Y., Friedjung, A., and E. Jurkevitch. 2006. Structure analysis of a soil community of predatory bacteria using culture-dependent and culture independent methods reveals a hitherto undetected diversity of Bdellovibrio-and-like organisms. Environmental Microbiology. 8: 1667-1673. pdf
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Davidov, Y., Huchon, D., Koval, S.F.and E. Jurkevitch. 2006. A new alpha-proteobacterial clade of Bdellovibrio-like predators: implications for the mitochondrial endosymbiotic theory. Environmental Microbiology. 8:2179-2188. pdf
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Lerner, A., Shor, Y., Vinokurov, A., Okon, Y., and E. Jurkevitch. 2006. Can denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) analysis of amplified 16S rDNA of soil bacterial populations be used in forensic investigations? Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 38:1188-1192. pdf
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Lerner, A., Herschkovitch, Y., Baudoin, E., Nazaret, S., Moenne-Loccoz, Y., Okon, Y., and E. Jurkevich. 2006. Effect of Azospirillum brasilense inoculation on rhizobacterial communities analyzed by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis and automated ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 38:1212-1218. pdf
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Herschkovitz, Y., Lerner, A., Davidov, Okon, Y., and E. Jurkevitch. 2005. Azospirillum brasilense does not affect population structure of specific rhizobacterial communities of inoculated maize (Zea mays). Environmental Microbiology. 7:1847-1852. pdf
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Herschkovitz, Y., Lerner, A., Davidov, Y., Rothballer, M., Hartmann, A., Okon, Y., and E. Jurkevitch. 2005. Inoculation with the plant growth promoting rhizobacterium Azospirillum brasilense causes little disturbance in the rhizosphere and rhizoplane of maize (Zea mays). Microbial Ecology. 50:277-288. pdf
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Behar, A., Yuval, B., and E. Jurkevitch. 2005. Nitrogen fixation in natural populations of the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata. Molecular Ecology. 14:2637-2643. (Fast track publication) pdf
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Kadouri, D., Castro-Sowinski, S., Jurkevitch, E., and Y. Okon. 2005. Ecological and agricultural significance of bacterial polyhydroxyalkanoates. Critical Reviews in Microbiology. 31:55-67. pdf
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Barel, G., Sirota, A., Volpin, H, and E. Jurkevitch. 2005. Fate of predator and prey proteins during the growth of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus on Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas syringae prey. Journal of Bacteriology.187:329-335. pdf
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Davidov, Y., and E. Jurkevitch. 2004. Diversity and evolution of Bdellovibrio-and-like organisms (BALOs), reclassification of Bacteriovorax starrii as Peredibacter starrii gen. nov., comb. nov., and description of the Bacteriovorax Peredibacter clade as Bacteriovoracaceae fam. nov. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 54:1439:1452. pdf
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Shemesh, Y., and E. Jurkevitch. 2004. Plastic phenotypic resistance to predation by Bdellovibrio and like organisms in bacterial prey. Environmental Microbiology. 6:8-12. pdf
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Kadouri, D., Jurkevitch, E., and Y. Okon. 2003. Poly-beta-hydroxybutyrate depolymerase (PhaZ) in Azospirillum brasilense and characterization of a phaZ mutant. Archives of Microbiology. 180:309-318. pdf
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Edelshtein, Z., Kadouri, D., Jurkevitch, E., Vande Broek, A., Vanderleyden , J., and Y. Okon. 2003. Characterization of genes involved in poly-beta-hydroxybutyrate metabolism in Azospirillum brasilense. Symbiosis.34:157-170. pdf
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Shemesh, Y., Davidov, Y., Koval, S., and E. Jurkevitch. 2003. Small eats big: ecology and diversity of Bdellovibrio and like organisms, and their dynamics in predator-prey interactions. Agronomie. 23:433-439. pdf
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Kadouri, D., Jurkevitch, E., and Y. Okon. 2003. Involvement of the reserve material poly-beta-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) in Azospirillum brasilense in stress endurance and root colonization. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 69:3244-3250. pdf