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Ido Izhaki
Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary
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Open AccessThe novel Orshina Rhythm in a colonial urochordate signifies the display of recurrent aging/rejuvenation sequels
When it comes to aging, some colonial invertebrates present disparate patterns from the customary aging phenomenon in unitary organisms, where a single senescence phenomenon along ontogeny culminates in their ...
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Open AccessBacterial detoxification of plant defence secondary metabolites mediates the interaction between a shrub and frugivorous birds
Many plants produce fleshy fruits, attracting fruit-eating animals that disperse the seeds in their drop**s. Such seed dispersal results in a conflict between the plant and the animal, as digestion of seeds ...
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Open AccessFission in a colonial marine invertebrate signifies unique life history strategies rather than being a demographic trait
Each of the few known life-history strategies (e.g., r/K and parity [semelparity and iteroparity]), is a composite stratagem, signified by co-evolved sets of trade-offs with stochastically distributed variatio...
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Open AccessGreat cormorants (Phalacrocorax carbo) as potential vectors for the dispersal of Vibrio cholerae
Vibrio cholerae is the cause of cholera, a devastating epidemic and pandemic disease. Despite its importance, the way of its global dissemination is unknown. V. cholerae is abundant in aq...
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Open AccessMultidimensional differentiation in foraging resource use during breeding of two sympatric top predators
Ecologically-similar species were found to develop specific strategies to partition their resources, leading to niche differentiation and divergence, in order to avoid interspecific competition. Our study dete...
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Open AccessPyridine-type alkaloid composition affects bacterial community composition of floral nectar
Pyridine-type alkaloids are most common in Nicotiana species. To study the effect of alkaloid composition on bacterial community composition in floral nectar, we compared the nicotine-rich wild type (WT) N. atten...
