Scientific Publications

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• How to reduce waste using black soldier fly larvae and produce a high-quality product
  Ben-Mordechai, T., Gutman, R., Shaltiel-Harpaz, L., & Opatovsky, I
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  Journals of Insects as Food and Feed, 2024

• Effect of entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana on the growth characteristics and metabolism of black soldier fly larvae
  Mani, K., Vitenberg, T., Khatib, S., & Opatovsky, I
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  Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology, 2023

• A review on nutritional and non-nutritional interactions of symbiotic and associated fungi with insect.
  Kannan, M., & Opatovsky, I.
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  Symbiosis, 2023

• Effect of yeast supplementation on growth parameters and metabolomics of black soldier fly larvae, Hermetia illucens (L.) (Diptera: Stratiomyidae).
  Kannan, M., Vitenberg, T., Ben-Mordechai, L., Khatib, S., & Opatovsky
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  Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, 2023

• Comparative untargeted metabolic analysis of natural-and laboratory-reared larvae of black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens (L.)(Diptera: Stratiomyidae).
  Mani, K., Vitenberg, T., Ben-Mordechai, L., Schweitzer, R., & Opatovsky, I. 
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  Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, 2023

• Assessing fungal diversity and abundance in the black soldier fly and its environment.
  Vitenberg T., Opatovsky I.
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  Journal of insect Science, 2022

• Does consumption of baker’s yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) by black soldier fly (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) Larvae affect their fatty acid composition?. Opatovsky I., Vitenberg T., Jonas-Levi A., Gutman R.
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  Journal of Insect Science, 2021

• Tomato cultivars resistant or susceptible to spider mites differ in their biosynthesis and metabolic profile of the monoterpenoid pathway.
  Weinblum N., Cna'ani A., Yaakov B., Sadeh A., Avraham L., Opatovsky I. and Vered Tzin.
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  Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021

• Control of lettuce big‐vein by application of fungicides and crop covers.
  Opatovsky I., Elbaz M., Dori I., Avraham L., Mordechai-Lebiush S., Dombrovsky A. and Tsror (Lahkim) L.
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  Plant Pathology, 2019

• First Report of Lettuce Big Vein Disease Caused by Olpidium spp., Mirafiori Lettuce Big-Vein Virus, and Lettuce Big-Vein Associated Virus in Israel.
  Opatovsky I., Elbaz M., Tsror (Lahkim) L. and Dombrovsky A.
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  Plant Disease, 2019

• Modeling trophic dependencies and exchanges among insects’ bacterial symbionts in a host-simulated environment.
  Opatovsky I., Santos-Garcia D., Lahav T., Ofaim S., Zchori-Fein E. and Freilich S.
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  BMC Genomics, 2018

• Crop pests and predators exhibit inconsistent responses to surrounding landscape composition.
  Karp D.S., Chaplin-Kramer R., Meehan T.D., Martin E.A., DeClerck F.,  Grab H., et al.
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  PNAS, 2018

• Use of alternative habitats by spiders in a desert agroecosystem.
  Opatovsky I., Musli I., Weintraub P.G. and Lubin Y.
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  Journal of Arachnology, 2017

• Various competitive interactions explain niche separation in crop-dwelling web spiders.Opatovsky I., Gavish-Regev E., Weintraub P.G. and Lubin Y.
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  Oikos, 2016

• Effects of non-native Eucalyptus plantations on epigeal spider communities in the northern Negev desert, Israel.
  Herrmann J.D., Opatovsky I., Lubin Y., Entling M.H., Pluess T. and Gavish-Regev E.
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  Journal of Arachnology, 2015

• Coping with abrupt decline in habitat quality: effects of harvest on spider abundance and movement.
  Opatovsky I. and Lubin Y.
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  Acta Oecologia, 2012

• Molecular characterization of the differential role of immigrant and agrobiont generalist predators in pest suppression.
  Opatovsky I., Chapman E.G., Weintraub P.G., Lubin Y. and Harwood J.D.
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  Biological Control, 2012

• Non-crop habitats in the landscape enhance spider diversity in wheat fields of a desert agroecosystem.
  Pluess T., Opatovsky I., Gavish-Regev E., Lubin Y. and Schmidt M.H.
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  Agriculture, Ecosystem and Environment, 2010

• Are spider assemblages in fragmented, semi-desert habitat affected by increasing cover of agricultural crops?
  Opatovsky I., Pluess T., Gavish-Regev E., Schmidt M.H. and Lubin Y.
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  Agriculture, Ecosystem and Environment, 2010

• Species richness and densities of spiders in wheat fields and semi-desert in the Negev (Israel)
  Pluess T., Opatovsky I., Gavish-Regev E., Lubin Y. and Schmidt M.H.
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  Journal of Arachnology, 2008