Laloum E*., E. Cattan-Tsaushu*, D.A. Schwartz*, H. Shaalan, H. Enav, D. Kolan, and S. Avrani (2022) Isolation and characterization of a novel Lambda-like phage infecting the bloom-forming cyanobacteria Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii.

Environ Microbiol doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15908. *equal contribution.

 

Avrani S. and D. Sher (2021) Viruses – agents of change in the oceans. Front Young Minds 9:569372.

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Borin J.M., S. Avrani, J.E. Barrick, K.L. Petrie, and J.R. Meyer (2021) Coevolutionary phage training leads to greater bacterial suppression and delays the evolution of phage resistance. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 118(23): e2104592118.

 

Katz S*., S. Avrani*, M. Yavneh, S. Hilau, J. Gross, and R. Hershberg (2021) Dynamics of mutation accumulation and adaptation during three years of evolution under long-term stationary phase. Mol Biol Evol msab067. *equal contribution.

 

Gross J., S. Avrani, S. Katz, S. Hilau, and R. Hershberg (2020) Culture volume influences the dynamics of adaptation under long-term stationary phase. Genome Biol Evol 12(12): 2292–2301.

 

​​Avrani S*., S. Katz*, and R. Hershberg (2020) Adaptations accumulated under prolonged resource exhaustion are highly transient. ​mSphere 5(4): e00388-20. *equal contribution.

 

Avrani S., E. Bolotin, S. Katz, and R. Hershberg (2017) Rapid genetic adaptation during the first four months of survival under resource exhaustion. Mol Biol Evol 34 (7): 1758-1769.

 

Avrani S. and D. Lindell (2015) Convergent evolution towards an improved growth rate and a reduced resistance range in Prochlorococcus strains resistant to phage. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 112: 2191– 2200.

 

Dekel-Bird N.P., S. Avrani, G. Sabehi, I. Pekarsky, M.F. Marston, S. Kirzner, and D. Lindell (2013) Diversity and evolutionary relationships of T7-like podoviruses infecting marine cyanobacteria. Environ Microbiol 15(5): 1476-1491.

 

Avrani* S., D.A. Schwartz*, and D. Lindell (2012) Virus-host swinging party in the oceans: Incorporating biological complexity into paradigms of antagonistic coexistence. Mob Genet Elements 2(2): 88-95. *equal contribution.

 

Avrani S., R. Ben-Shlomo and M. Inbar (2012) Cryptic speciation along the fragmented Irano-Turanian distribution zone: Phylogeography of Pistacia atlantica and its galling aphids. Tree Gen Genomes 8(4): 811-820.

 

Avrani S., O. Wurtzel, I. Sharon, R. Sorek, and D. Lindell (2011) Genomic island variability facilitates Prochlorococcus-virus coexistence. Nature 474: 604-608.

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