Books
Predatory Prokaryotes - Biology, ecology, and evolution. 2007. Jurkevitch E. (ed.). Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.
The Ecology of Predation at the Microscale.2020. Jurkevitch E., and Mitchell, R.J., Editors. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
2024
Cohen, Y., Johnke, J., Abed-Rabbo, A., Pasternak, Z., Chatzinotas, A., and Jurkevitch, E. 2024. Unbalanced predatory communities and a lack of microbial degraders characterize the microbiota of a highly sewage-polluted Eastern-Mediterranean stream. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 100(6), fiae069.
Mookherjee, A., Mitra, M., Sason, G., Jose, P.A., Martinenko, M., Pietrokovski, S., Jurkevitch, E. 2024. Flagellar stator genes control a trophic shift from obligate to facultative predation and biofilm formation in a bacterial predator. mBio 0:e00715-24. https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.00715-24
Rosberg, A.K., Silva, M.R., Feidenhans, C.K., Cytryn, E., Jurkevitch, E., Lood, R. 2024. Regulation of antibiotic resistance genes on aricultural land Is dependent on both choice of organic amendment and prevalence of predatory bacteria. Antibiotics. 13(8), 750. https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics13080750
Sason, G., Chalegoua, E., Pun, M., Nussinovitch, A., Jurkevitch, E., Yedidia, I. 2024. Encapsulated predatory bacteria efficiently protect potato tubers from soft rot disease. Plant Disease. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-02-24-0487-RE.
2023
Sason, G., Yedidia, I., Nussinovitch, A., Chalegoua, E., Pun, M., and Jurkevitch, E. 2023. Self-demise of soft rot bacteria by activation of microbial predators by pectin-based carriers. Microbial Biotechnology.
16:1561–1576 DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.14271
Dror, B., Jurkevitch, E. and Cytryn, E. 2023. Global-scale analysis reveals distinct patterns of non-ribosomal peptide and polyketide synthase encoding genes in root and soil bacterial communities. Soil Ecology Letters 5:38-45.
Jose, P.A., Yuval, B. and Jurkevitch, E., 2023. Maternal and host effects mediate the adaptive expansion and contraction of the microbiome during ontogeny in a holometabolous, polyphagous insect. Functional Ecology. 28 January 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14286.
Sason, G., Jurkevitch, E. and Nussinovitch, A., 2023. Biological control of soft rot in potato by κ-carrageenan carriers encapsulated microbial predators. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 107:.81-96.
Dror, B., Amutuhaire, H., Frenkel, O., Jurkevitch, E. and Cytryn, E. 2022. Identification of Bacterial Populations and Functional Mechanisms Potentially Involved in Biochar-Facilitated Antagonism of the Soilborne Pathogen Fusarium oxysporum. Phytobiomes Journal, 6:139-150.
2022
Matan O, Jurkevitch E. Predation of antibiotic persister bacteria by the predatory bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. Environ Microbiol Rep. 2022 Mar 5. doi: 10.1111/1758-2229.13054.
Pasternak, Z., Chapnik, N., Yosef, R., Kopelman, N.M., Jurkevitch, E., and Segev, E. 2022. Identifying protein function and functional links based on large-scale co-occurrence patterns. PLOS ONE 17: e0264765.
Gopalakrishnan, V., Burdman, S., Jurkevitch, E. and Helman, Y., 2022. From the lab to the field: Combined application of plant-growth-promoting bacteria for mitigation of salinity stress in melon plants. Agronomy. 12:408.
Sivakala, K.K., Jose, P.A., Shamir, M., Wong, A. C-N., Jurkevitch, E., and B. Yuval. 2022. Effects of maternally transmitted and environmental bacteria on medfly larvae foraging behaviour. Animal Behaviour 183:169-176.
Mookherjee, A., and E. Jurkevitch. 2022. Interactions between Bdellovibrio and like organisms and bacteria in biofilms: beyond predator-prey dynamics. Environmental Microbiology, 24.3: 998-1011.
2021
Cohen, Y., Pasternak, Z., Müller, S., Hübschmann, T., Schattenberg, F., Sivakala, K.K., Abed-Rabbo, A., Chatzinotas, A., and E. Jurkevitch 2021. Community and single cell analyses reveal complex predatory interactions between bacteria in high diversity systems. Nature Communications, 12, 5481. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25824-9.
Sathyamoorthy, R., Kushmaro, Y., Rotem, O., Matan, O., Kadouri, D. E., Huppert, A., and Jurkevitch, E. 2021. To hunt or to rest: prey depletion induces a novel starvation survival strategy in bacterial predators. The ISME Journal, 15(1), 109-123.
Jose, P.A., Ben‐Yosef, M., Lahuatte, P., Causton, C.E., Heimpel, G.E., Jurkevitch, E. and Yuval, B. 2021. Shifting microbiomes complement life stage transitions and diet of the bird parasite Philornis downsi from the Galapagos Islands. Environmental Microbiology. doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15435.
Marano, R., Gupta,C.L., Cozer, T., Jurkevitch, E. and Cytryn, E. 2021. Hidden Resistome: Enrichment Reveals the Presence of Clinically Relevant Antibiotic Resistance Determinants in Treated Wastewater-Irrigated Soils. Environmental Science & Technology, doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c00612 .
Sathyamoorthy, R., Huppert, A., Kadouri,D.E., and E. Jurkevitch. 2021. Effects of the prey landscape on the fitness of the bacterial predators Bdellovibrio and like organisms. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiab047.
Slipko, K., Marano, R., Cytryn, E., Merkus, V., Wögerbauer, M., Krampe, J., Jurkevitch, E., and Kreuzinger, N., 2021. Effects of subinhibitory quinolone concentrations on functionality, microbial community composition, and abundance of antibiotic resistant bacteria and qnrS in activated sludge. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering 9:104783.
Sivakala, K. K., Arul Jose, P., Matan, O., Zohar‐Perez, C., Nussinovitch, A., and E. Jurkevitch. 2021. In vivo predation and modification of the Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) gut microbiome by the bacterial predator Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. Journal of Applied Microbiology. doi.org/10.1111/jam.15170.
Aharon, E., Mookherjee, A., Pérez-Montaño, F., Mateus da Silva, G., Sathyamoorthy, R., Burdman, S., and E. Jurkevitch. 2021. Secretion systems play a critical role in resistance to predation by Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. Research in Microbiology. doi.org/10.1016/j.resmic.2021.103878.
Sivakala K.K., Jose, P.A., Shamir, M., Wong, A. C-N., Jurkevitch, E., and B. Yuval. 2021. Effects of maternally transmitted and environmental bacteria on medfly larvae foraging behaviour. Animal Behaviour, in press.
2020
Dror, B., Wang, Z., Brady, S.F., Jurkevitch, E. and Cytryn, E., 2020. Elucidating the diversity and potential function of nonribosomal peptide and polyketide biosynthetic gene clusters in the root microbiome. Msystems, 5(6), pp.e00866-20
Youdkes, D., Helman, Y., Burdman, S., Matan, O., and Jurkevitch, E. 2020. Potential control of potato soft rot disease by the obligate predators Bdellovibrio and like organisms. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 86.6. doi:10.1128/AEM.02543-19.
Dror, B., Jurkevitch, E., and Cytryn E. 2020. State-of-the-art methodologies to identify antimicrobial secondary metabolites in soil bacterial communities-A review. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 107838
2019
Zaada, D.S.Y., Ben-Yosef, M., Yuval, B. and Jurkevitch, E., 2019. The host fruit amplifies mutualistic interactions between Ceratitis capitata larvae and associated bacteria. BMC Biotechnology. 19:92.
Habtom, H., Pasternak, Z., Matan, O., Azulay, C., Gafny, R., & Jurkevitch, E. 2019. Applying microbial biogeography in soil forensics. Forensic Science International: Genetics. 38: p. 195-203.
Gatica Arias, J., Jurkevitch, E., Cytryn, E. 2019. Comparative metagenomics and network analyses provide novel insights into the scope and distribution of β-lactamase homologues in the environment. Frontiers in Microbiology. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00146.
Cohen, Y., Pasternak, Z., Johnke, J., Abed-Rabbo, A., Kushmaro, A., Chatzinotas, A., and Jurkevitch, E. 2019. Bacteria and micro-eukaryotes are differentially segregated in sympatric wastewater microhabitats. Environmental Microbiology. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.14548.
Sathyamoorthy, R., Maoz, A., Pasternak, Z., Im, H., Huppert, A., Kadouri, D., and Jurkevitch, E. 2019. Bacterial predation under changing viscosities. Environmental Microbiology. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.1469.
Jose, P.A., Ben-Yosef, M., Jurkevitch, E., and Yuval, B. 2019. Symbiotic bacteria affect oviposition behavior in the olive fruit fly Bactrocera oleae. Journal of Insect Physiology. 117: p. 103917.
Yuval, B., Lahuatte, P., Polpass, A.J., Causton, C.E., Jurkevitch, E., Kouloussis, N., and Ben-Yosef, M. 2019. Behavioral responses of the invasive fly Philornis downsi to stimuli from bacteria and yeast in the laboratory and the field in the Galapagos Islands. Insects. 10(12), 431.
Akami, M., Andongma, A. A., Zhengzhong, C., Nan, J., Khaeso, K., Jurkevitch, E., Niu, C-Y, and Yuval, B. (2019). Intestinal bacteria modulate the foraging behavior of the oriental fruit fly Bactrocera dorsalis (Diptera: Tephritidae). PloS one, 14(1).
Petrenko, M., Friedman, S.P., Fluss, R., Pasternak, Z., Huppert, A., and Jurkevitch, E. 2019. Spatial heterogeneity stabilizes predator-prey interactions at the microscale while patch connectivity controls their outcome. Environmental Microbiology. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.14887. PMID: 31814273.
Marano, R. B., Zolti, A., Jurkevitch, E., and Cytryn, E. 2019. Antibiotic resistance and class 1 integron gene dynamics along effluent, reclaimed wastewater irrigated soil, crop continua: elucidating potential risks and ecological constraints. Water Research, 164, 114906.
2018
Pasternak, Z., Luchibia, A.O., Matan, O., Dawson, L., Gafny, R., Shpitzen, M., Avraham, S., and Jurkevitch, E. 2018. Mitigating temporal mismatches in forensic soil microbial profiles. Australian Journal of Forensics Sciences. 10.1080/00450618.2018.1450897.
Segev, E., Pasternak, Z., Ben Sasson, T., Jurkevitch, E., and Gonen, M., 2018. Automatic identification of optimal marker genes for phenotypic and taxonomic groups of microorganisms. PloSOne doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195537.
Kaplan, E., Marano R.B.M., Jurkevitch E., Cytryn, E., 2018. Enhanced bacterial fitness under residual fluoroquinolone concentrations is associated with increased gene expression in wastewater-derived qnr plasmid-harboring strains. Frontiers in Microbiology, 9:1176.
2017
Habtom, H., Demanèche, S., Dawson, L., Azulay, C., Matan O., Robe, P., Gafny, R., Simonet, P. Jurkevitch, E., and Pasternak, Z. 2017. Soil characterisation by bacterial community analysis for forensic applications: a quantitative comparison of environmental technologies. Forensic Science International: Genetics, 26: 21-29.
Dattner, I., Miller, E., Petrenko, M., Kadouri, D.E., Jurkevitch, E., and Huppert, A. 2017. Modelling and parameter inference of predator-prey dynamics in heterogeneous environments using the direct integral approach. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2016.0525.
Pavlidi, N., Gioti, A., Wybouw, N., Dermauw, W., Ben-Yosef, M., Yuval, B., Jurkevitch, E., Kampouraki, A., Van Leeuwen, T., and Vontas, J. 2017. Transcriptomic responses of the olive fruit fly Bactrocera oleae and its symbiont Candidatus Erwinia dacicola to olive feeding. Scientific Reports 7, 42633, doi:10.1038/srep42633.
Avidan, O., Petrenko, M., Becker, R., Beck, S., Linscheid, M., Pietrokovski, S., and Jurkevitch, E. 2017. Identification and characterization of differentially-regulated Type IVb pilin genes necessary for predation in obligate bacterial predators. Scientific Reports 7:1, Ben-Yosef, M., Zaada, D.S.Y., Dudaniec, R.Y.,
Pasternak, Z., Jurkevitch, E., Smith, R.J., Causton, C.E., Lincango, M.P., Tobe, S.S., Mitchell, J.G., Kleindorfer, S., and Yuval, B. 2017. Host-specific associations affect the microbiome of the parasitic fly Philornis downsi and Darwin’s finches. Molecular Ecology. 10.1111/mec.14219.1013. DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-00951-w.
Johnke, J. Baron, M., de Leeuw, M. , Kushmaro, A., Jurkevitch, E., Harms, H., and Chatzinotas, A. 2017. A generalist protist predator enables coexistence in multitrophic predator-prey systems containing a phage and the bacterial predator Bdellovibrio. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 5, doi:10.3389/fevo.2017.00124.
Makarovsky, D., Fadeev, L., Salam, B.B., Zelinger, E., Matan, O., Inbar, J,, Jurkevitch, E., Gozin, M., and Burdman, S. 2017. Silver nanoparticles in complex with bovine submaxillary mucin possess strong antibacterial activity and protect against seedling infection. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, doi:10.1128/aem.02212-17.
Jurkevitch, E., and Jacquet, S. 2017. Bdellovibrio et organismes apparentés : des prédateurs bactériens hors du commun ! Médecine/Science, 33: 519 – 527.
2016
Gatica, J., Tripathi, V., Green, S., Manaia, C.M., Berendonk, T., Cacace, D., Merlin, C., Kreuzinger, N., Schwartz, T., Fatta-Kassinos, D. and Rizzo, L., Schwermer, C.U., Garelick, H., Jurkevitch, E., Cytryn, E. 2016. High throughput analysis of integron gene cassettes in wastewater environments. Environmental Science and Technology, 50:11825-11836.
Rotem, O., Nesper, J., Borovok, I., Gorovits, R., Kolot, M., Pasternak, Z., and Jurkevitch, E. 2016. An extended cyclic di-GMP network in the predatory bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. Journal of Bacteriology, 1:127-137.
Hol, F.J., Rotem, O., Jurkevitch, E., Dekker, C. and Koster, D.A. 2016. Bacterial predator–prey dynamics in microscale patchy landscapes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 283: 20152154.
Martínez, V., Herencias, C., Jurkevitch, E., and Prieto, M. A. 2016. Engineering a predatory bacterium as a proficient killer agent for intracellular bio-products recovery: The case of the polyhydroxyalkanoates. Scientific reports, 6.
Blow F, Gioti A, Starns D, Ben-Yosef M, Pasternak Z, Jurkevitch E, Vontas J, Darby AC. 2016. Draft Genome Sequence of the Bactrocera oleae symbiont “Candidatus Erwinia dacicola”. Genome Announcements. 2016;4(5). doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00896-16.
Nesme J. et al. 2016. Back to the future of soil metagenomics. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7:73.
2015
Kaplan, E., Sela, N., Doron-Faigenboim, A., Navon-Venezia, S., Jurkevitch, E. and Cytryn, E., 2015. Genomic and functional characterization of qnr-encoding plasmids from municipal wastewater biosolid Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates. Frontiers in Microbiology, 6.
Gatica, J., Yang, K., Pagaling, E., Jurkevitch, E., Yan, T. and Cytryn, E., 2015. Resistance of undisturbed soil microbiomes to ceftriaxone indicates extended spectrum β-lactamase activity. Frontiers in Microbiology, 6.
Ben-Yosef, M., Pasternak, Z., Jurkevitch, E., Yuval, B. 2015. Symbiotic bacteria enable olive fly larvae to overcome host defences. Royal Society Open Science 2:7.
Rotem, O., Pasternak, Z., Shimoni, E., Belausov, E., Porat, Z., Pietrokovski, S., and Jurkevitch, E. 2015. Cell-cycle progress in obligate predatory bacteria is dependent upon sequential sensing of prey recognition and prey quality cues. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 112:E6028-6037.
Pasternak, Z., Ben Sasson, T., Cohen, Y., Segev, E., and Jurkevitch, E. 2015. A new comparative-genomics approach for defining phenotype-specific indicators reveals specific genetic markers in predatory bacteria. PloSOne, 10: e0142933.
2014
Pasternak, Z., Njagi, M., Chanyi, R., S, Rotem,, O., Lurie-Weinberger , M.N., Koval, S.F., Pietrokovski, S., Gophna , U., and E. Jurkevitch. 2014. In and out: an analysis of epibiotic vs. periplasmic bacterial predators. ISME Journal. 8:625-635.
Kandel, P.P., Pasternak, Z., van Rijn, J., Nahum, O., Jurkevitch, E. 2014. Abundance, diversity and seasonal dynamics of predatory bacteria in aquaculture zero discharge systems. FEMS Microbial Ecology. 89:149-161.
Ben‐Yosef, M., Pasternak, Z., Jurkevitch, E., and B. Yuval. 2014. Symbiotic bacteria enable olive flies (Bactrocera oleae) to exploit intractable sources of nitrogen. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 27.12: 2695-2705.
Johnke, J. Cohen, Y., DeLeuuw, M. Kushmaro, A., Jurkevitch, E., and Chazinotas, A. 2014. Multiple micro-predators controlling bacterial communities in the environment. Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 27, 185-190.
2013
Martinez, V., Jurkevitch, E., Garcia, J.L., and M.A. Prieto. 2013. Reward for Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus for preying on a polyhydroxyalkanoate producer. Environmental Microbiology. 15: 1204-1215.
Aharon, Y., Pasternak, Z., Ben Yosef, M., Behar, A., Lauzon, C., Yuval, B., and E. Jurkevitch. 2013. Phylogenetic, metabolic and taxonomic diversity shape the Mediterranean fruit fly microbiota across ontogeny. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 79: 303-513.
Karunker, I., Rotem, O., Dori-Bachash, M., Jurkevitch, E., Sorek, R. 2013. A global transcriptional switch between the attack and growth forms of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. PLoSOne. 8: e61850.
Pasternak, Z., Pietrokovski, S., Rotem, O., Gophna, U., Lurie-Weinberger, M.N., and E. Jurkevitch. 2013. By their genes ye shall know them: genomic signatures of predatory bacteria. ISME Journal. 7:756-769.
Kaplan, E., Offek, M., Jurkevitch, E., and Cytryn, E. 2013. Characterization of fluoroquinolone resistance and qnr diversity in Enterobacteriaceae from municipal biosolids. Frontiers in Antimicrobials, Resistance and Chemotherapy. 4: 144.
Pasternak, Z., Al-Ashhab, A., Gatica, J., Gafny, R., Avraham, S., Minz, D., Gillor, O., Jurkevitch, E. 2013. Spatial and temporal biogeography of soil microbial communities in arid and semi-arid regions. PLoSOne, 8:e69705.
2012
Qvit-Raz,N., Finkel, O. Al-Deeb, T., Malkawi, H., Hindiyeh, M.Y., Jurkevitch, E., Belkin, S. 2012. Biogeographical diversity of leaf-associated microbial communities from salt secreting Tamarix trees of the Dead Sea region. Research in Microbiology. 163:142-150.
Negreanu, Y., Pasternak, P., Jurkevitch, E., and Eddie Cytryn. 2012. Impact of treated wastewater irrigation on antibiotic resistance in agricultural soils. Environmental Science and Technology. 46:4800–4808.
Koval, S.F., Hynes, S.H., Flannagan, R.S., Pasternak, Z., Davidov, Y., and E. Jurkevitch. 2012. Bdellovibrio exovorus, sp. nov., a novel predator of Caulobacter crescentus. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 63: 146-151.
Pasternak Z., Al-Ashhab, A., Gatica, J., Gafny, R., Avraham, S., Frenk, S., Minz, D., Gillor, O., and E. Jurkevitch. 2012. Optimization of molecular methods and statistical procedures for forensic fingerprinting of microbial soil communities. International Research Journal of Microbiology. 3:363-372.
2011
Jurkevitch, E. 2011. Riding the Trojan horse: combating pest insects with their own symbionts. Microbial Biotechnology. 4, 620–627.
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. 135:564-573.
2010
Wurtzel, O., Dori-Bachash, M., Pietrokovski, S., Jurkevitch, E., and R. Sorek. 2010. Mutation detection with next-generation resequencing through a mediator genome. PLoS One. 5(12): e15628. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0015628.
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 auxin biosynthesis gene ipdC upon the diversity of the indigenous microbiota of the wheat rhizosphere. Research in Microbiology. 161:219-226.
Ben Yosef, M., Aharon, Y., Jurkevitch, E., and Yuval, B. 2010. Give us the toolsand 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 Ami, E., Yuval, B., and E. Jurkevitch. 2010. Manipulation of the microbiota of mass-reared Mediterranean fruit flies Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae) improves sterile male sexual performance. ISME Journal. 4:28–37.
Yuval, B., Ben Ami, E., Behar, A., Ben-Yosef, M., and Jurkevitch, E. 2010. The Mediterranean fruit fly and its bacteria – potential for improving sterile insect technique operations. Journal of Applied Entomology. 137 (s1):39-42.
2009
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.
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.
Davidov, Y., and Jurkevitch, E. 2009. Predation between prokaryotes and the origin of eukaryotes. BioEssay. 31:748-57.
Buée, M., De Boer, W., Martin, F., van Overbeek, L., and Jurkevitch, E. 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.
2008
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-Yosef, M., Jurkevitch, E., Yuval, B. 2008. Bacteria-diet interactions affect longevity in the medfly – Ceratitis capitata. Journal of Applied Entomology. 132: 690-694.
Behar, A., Jurkevitch, E., Yuval, B. 2008. Bringing back the fruit into fruit fly-bacteria interactions. Molecular Ecology. 17:1375–1386.
Behar, A., Yuval, B. and Jurkevitch, E. 2008. Community structure of the Mediterranean fruit fly microbiota: Seasonal and spatial sources of variation. Israel Journal of Ecology & Evolution. 54:181:191.
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. 54: 1377–1383.
Dori-Bachash, M., Dassa, B, Pietrokovski, S., and Jurkevitch, E. 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.
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.
Previous to 2008
Jurkevitch, E., Hadar, Y., and Y. Chen. 1986. The remedy of lime-induced chlorosis in peanuts by Pseudomonas sp. siderophores. Journal of Plant Nutrition. 9:535-545.
Jurkevitch, E., Hadar, Y., and Y. Chen. 1988. Involvement of bacterial siderophores in the remedy of lime-induced chlorosis in peanut. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 52:1032-1037.
Hofte, M., Seong, K.Y., Jurkevitch, E., and W. Verstraete. 1991. Pyoverdin production by the plant growth promoting Pseudomonas strain 7NSK2: ecological significance in soil. Plant and Soil. 130:249-258.
Jurkevitch, E., Hadar, Y., Chen,Y., Libman, J., and A. Shanzer. 1992. Iron uptake and molecular recognition in Pseudomonas putida: receptor mapping with ferrichrome and its biomimetic analogs. Journal of Bacteriology. 174:78-83.
Jurkevitch, E., Hadar, Y., and Y. Chen. 1992. Differential siderophore utilization and iron uptake by soil and rhizosphere bacteria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 58:119-124.
Jurkevitch, E., Hadar, Y., and Y. Chen. 1992. Utilization of the siderophores FOB and pseudobactin by rhizosphere microorganisms of cotton plants. Journal of Plant Nutrition.15: 2183-2192.
Jurkevitch, E., Hadar, Y., Chen, Y., Chino, M., and S. Mori. 1993. Indirect utilization of the phytosiderophore mugineic acid as an iron source by rhizosphere fluorescent pseudomonads. Biometals. 6:119-123.
Shanzer, A., Libman, J., Yakirevitch, P., Hadar, Y., Chen, Y., and E. Jurkevitch. 1993. Siderophore-Mediated microbial iron(III) uptake: An exercise in chiral recognition. Chirality. 5: 359–365.
Chen, Y., Jurkevitch, E., Bar-Ness, E., and Y. Hadar. 1994. Stability constants of pseudobactin complexes with transition metals. Soil Science Society America Journal. 58:390-396.
Jurkevitch, E., Hadar, Y., Chen, Y., Yakirevitch, P., Libman, J., and A. Shanzer. 1994. Iron uptake and molecular recognition in Pseudomonas putida: receptor mapping with ferrioxamine B, coprogen B and their biomimetic analogs. Microbiology. 140:1697-1703.
Crespi1, M., Jurkevitch1, E., Poiret, M., d'Aubenton-Carafa, Y., Petrovics, G., Kondorosi, E., and A. Kondorosi. 1994. enod40, a gene expressed during nodule organogenesis, codes for a non-translatable RNA involved in plant growth. EMBO Journal. 13:5099-5112. 1Equal contribution.
Shanzer, A., Libman, J., Weizman, H., Mester, B., Hadar, Y., Chen, Y., Jurkevitch, E., and O. Ardon. 1996. Molecular recognition and signaling. Pure and Applied Chemistry. 68:757-760.
McKahn, H.I., Frugier, F., Petrovics, G., Coba, T., Jurkevitch, E., Brown, S. Kondorosi, E., Kondorosi, A. and M. Crespi. 1997. Cloning of a WD-repeat-containing gene from alfalfa (Medicago sativa): A role in hormone-mediated cell division? Plant Molecular Biology. 34:771-780.
Burdman, S., Jurkevitch, E., Schwartsburd, B., Hampel, M. and Y. Okon. 1998. Aggregation in Azospirillum brasilense: effects of chemical and physical factors and involvement of extracellular components. Microbiology. 144:1989-1999.
Vedder-Weiss, D., Jurkevitch, E., Burdman, S., Weiss, D. and Y. Okon. 1999. Root growth, respiration and beta-glucosidase activity in maize (Zea mays) and common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) inoculated with Azospirillum brasilense. Symbiosis. 26:363-377.
Burdman, S., Jurkevitch, E., Schwartsburd, B. and Y. Okon. 1999. Involvement of outer membrane proteins in the aggregation of Azospirillum brasilense. Microbiology. 145:1145-1152.
Jurkevitch, E., and B. Ramati. 2000. Design and uses of Bdellovibrio 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotides. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 184:265-271.
Jurkevitch E., Minz, D., Ramati, B., and G. Barel. 2000. Prey range characterization, ribotyping, and diversity of soil and rhizosphere Bdellovibrio spp. isolated on phytopathogenic bacteria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 66:2365-2371.
Freeman, S., Minz, D., Jurkevitch, E., Maimon, M., and Shabi, E. 2000. Molecular analyses for differentiating Colletotrichum populations from almond and other hosts. Phytopathology. 90:608-614.
Jurkevitch, E. and Shapira, G.. 2000. Structure and colonization dynamics of epiphytic bacterial communities and of selected component strains on tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) leaves. Microbial Ecology. 40:300-308.
Burdman, S., De Mot, R., Vanderleyden, J., Okon, Y. and Jurkevitch, E. 2000. Identification and characterization of the omaA gene encoding the major outer membrane protein of Azospirillum brasilense. DNA Sequence. 11:225-237.
Burdman, S., Jurkevitch, E., Soria-Diaz, M. E., Gil Serrano, A. M. and Y. Okon. 2000. Extracellular polysaccharide composition of Azospirillum brasilense and its relation with cell aggregation. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 189:259-264.
Schallmach, E., Minz, D., and Jurkevitch, E. 2000. Culture-independent detection of changes in root-associated bacterial populations of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) following nitrogen depletion. Microbial Ecology. 40:309-316.
Burdman, S., Okon, Y., and Jurkevitch, E. 2000. Surface characteristics of Azospirillum brasilense in relation to cell aggregation and attachment to plant roots. Critical Reviews in Microbiology. 26:91-110.
Barel, G., and Jurkevitch, E. 2001. Analysis of phenotypic diversity among host-independent mutants of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus 109J. Archives of Microbiology. 176: 211-216.
Burdman, S., Dulguerova, G., Okon, Y. and Jurkevitch, E. 2001. Purification of the major outer membrane protein of Azospirillum brasilense, its affinity to plant roots and its involvement in cell aggregation. Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions. 14: 555-561.
Kadouri, D., Burdman, S., Jurkevitch, E., and Y. Okon. 2002. Identification and isolation of the genes involved in poly b-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) biosynthesis in Azospirillum brasilense and characterization of a mutant strain impaired in PHB production. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 68:2943-294.
Sinvany G ., Kapulnik Y., Wininger S. , Badani H., and Jurkevitch, E. 2002. The early nodulin enod40 is induced by, and also promotes arbuscular mycorrhizal root colonization. Physiological & Molecular Plant Pathology. 60:103-109.
Edelshtein, Z., Kadouri, D., Jurkevitch, E. , Vande Broek, A., Vanderleyden, J., and Y. Okon. 2003. Characterization of genes involved in poly-β-hydroxybutyrate metabolism in Azospirillum brasilense. Symbiosis.34:157-170.
Shemesh, Y., Davidov, Y., Koval, S., and Jurkevitch, E. 2003. Small eats big: ecology and diversity of Bdellovibrio and like organisms, and their dynamics in predator-prey interactions. Agronomie.
Kadouri, D., Jurkevitch, E., and Y. Okon. 2003. Involvement of the reserve material poly b-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) in Azospirillum brasilense in stress endurance and root colonization. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 69:3244-3250.
Kadouri, D., Jurkevitch, E., and Y. Okon. 2003. Poly-β-hydroxybutyrate depolymerase (PhaZ) in Azospirillum brasilense and characterization of a phaZ mutant. Archives of Microbiology. 180:309-318.)
Shemesh, Y.,and Jurkevitch, E. 2004. Plastic phenotypic resistance to predation by Bdellovibrio and like organisms in bacterial prey. Environmental Microbiology. 6:8-12.
Davidov, Y., and Jurkevitch, E. 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.
Herschkovitz, Y., Lerner, A., Davidov, Y., Okon, Y., and Jurkevitch, E. 2005. Azospirillum brasilense does not affect population structure of specific rhizobacterial communities of inoculated maize (Zea mays). Environmental Microbiology. 7:1847-1852.
Behar, A., Yuval, B., and Jurkevitch, E. 2005. Enterobacteria-mediated nitrogen fixation in natural populations of the fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata. Molecular Ecology. 14:2637-2643.
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.
Barel, G., Sirota, A., Volpin, H., and Jurkevitch, E. 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.
Herschkovitz, Y., Lerner, A., Davidov, Y., Rothballer, M., Hartmann, A., Okon, Y., and Jurkevitch, E. 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.
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.
Lerner, A., Herschkovitz, Y., Baudoin, E., Nazaret, S., Moenne-Loccoz, Y., Okon Y., and Jurkevitch, E. 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.
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.
Davidov, Y., Huchon, D., Koval, S.F., and Jurkevitch, E. 2006. A new α-proteobacterial clade of Bdellovibrio-like predators: implications for the mitochondrial endosymbiotic theory. Environmental Microbiology. 8:2179-2188.
Castro-Sowinski, S., Herschkovitz, Y., Okon, Y., and Jurkevitch, E. 2007. Effects of inoculation with plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria on resident rhizosphere microorganisms. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 276:1-11.
Jurkevitch, E. 2007. Predatory behaviors in bacteria- diversity and transitions. Microbe Magazine (The ASM News Magazine) 2:67-73.
Chapters in collections
Hadar, Y., Jurkevitch, E. and Y. Chen. 1986. The effect of Pseudomonas siderophores on iron nutrition of plants. In T.R. Swinburne (ed.) Iron, Siderophores and Plant Disease. Plenum Press, New York, pp. 43-48.
Burdman, S., Vedder, D., German, M., Itzigsohn, R., Kigel, J., Jurkevitch, E. and Y. Okon 1998. Legume crop yield promotion by inoculation with Azospirillum. In Elmerich C, Kondorosi A and Newton WE (eds.), Biological Nitrogen Fixation for the 21st Century. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. pp. 609-612.
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
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., 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. 2006. Isolation and classification of Bdellovibrio and like organisms. In Current Protocols in Microbiology. Coico, R., Kowalik, T., Quarles, J., Stevenson, B., and R. Taylor (eds). John Wiley and Sons. N.Y.
Jurkevitch, E. and Y. Davidov. 2007. Phylogenetic diversity and evolution of predatory prokaryotes. In Predatory Prokaryotes - Biology, ecology, and evolution. Jurkevitch E. (ed.). Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.
Jurkevitch E. 2007. A brief history of short bacteria: a chronicle of Bdellovibrio (and like organisms) research. In Predatory Prokaryotes - Biology, ecology, and evolution. 2007. Jurkevitch E. (ed.). Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.
Yuval, B., Ben-Yosef, M., Ben-Ami, E., Behar, A., and E. Jurkevitch, 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.
Jurkevitch, E. 2009. Predatory Behavior in Bacteria. In McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology 2009.McGraw-Hill, USA.
Behar, A., Ben-Yosef, M., Lauzon, C.R., Yuval, B., and Jurkevitch, E., 2009. Structure and function of the bacterial community associated with the Mediterranean fruit fly. Pp.251-271. In Insect Symbiosis. Bourtzis, K. and T. Miller (eds). CRC, Boca Raton.
Jurkevitch, E. 2010. Evolution and consequences 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.
Jurkevitch, E. 2011. Insect “symbiology” is coming of age, bridging between bench and field. In Beneficial Microorganisms in Multicellular Life Forms. Rosenberg, E., and U. Gophna (eds). Springer-Verlag.
Jurkevitch, E. 2012. Isolation and classification of Bdellovibrio and like organisms. In Current Protocols in Microbiology. Coico, R., Kowalik, T., Quarles, J., Stevenson, B., and R. Taylor (eds). John Wiley and Sons. N.Y.