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Sapir, Y., A. Shmida and H. P. Comes. (2001) Iris bismarckiana in Israel and Jordan - new findings and taxonomic remarks. Israel Journal of Plant Sciences 49(3):229-235 (PDF).
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Arafeh, R. M. H., Y. Sapir, A. Shmida, N. Iraki, O. Fragman and H. P. Comes. (2002) Patterns of genetic and phenotypic variation in Iris haynei and I. atrofusca (Iris sect. Oncocyclus=the Royal Irises) along an environmental gradient in Israel and the West Bank. Molecular Ecology. 11: 39-53 (PDF).
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Sapir, Y., A. Shmida, O. Fragman and H. P. Comes. (2002) Morphological variation of the Oncocyclus Irises in the southern Levant. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 139: 369-382 (PDF).
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Sapir, Y. and A. Shmida. (2002) Species concepts and ecogeographical divergence of Oncocyclus irises. Israel Journal of Plant Sciences 50:S119-S127 (PDF).
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Shmida, A., O. Fragman, R. Nathan, Z. Shamir and Y. Sapir. (2002) The Red Plants of Israel: a proposal of updated and revised list of plant species protected by the law. Ecologia Mediterranea. 28(1):55-64 (PDF).
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Sapir, Y., A. Shmida and O. Fragman. (2003) Constructing Red Numbers for endangered plant species - Israeli flora as a test case. Journal for Nature conservation 11(2):91-108 (PDF).
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Sapir, Y., A. Shmida and G. Ne’eman. (2005) Pollination of the Oncocyclus irises (Iris: Iridaceae) by night-sheltering male bees. Plant Biology. 7(4):417-424. (PDF + Cover).
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Sapir, Y., A. Shmida and G. Ne’eman. (2006) Morning floral heat as reward to the pollinators of the Oncocyclus irises. Oecologia. 147:53-59. (PDF).
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Segal, B., Y. Sapir, and Y. Carmel. (2007) Fragmentation and pollination crisis in the self-incompatible Iris bismarckiana (Iridaceae), with implications for conservation. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution. 52: 111-122. (PDF)
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Sapir, Y., M. L. Moody, L. C. Brouillette, L. A. Donovan, and L. H. Rieseberg. (2007) Patterns of genetic variation and heterozygosity and candidate genes for ecological divergence in a homoploid hybrid sunflower, Helianthus anomalus. Molecular Ecology 16: 5017-5029 (PDF).
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Baack, E. J., Y. Sapir, M. A. Chapman, J. M. Burke, and L. H. Rieseberg. (2008) Selection on domestication traits and QTLs in crop-wild sunflower hybrids. Molecular Ecology 17:666-677 (PDF).
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Martin, N. H, Y. Sapir, and M. L. Arnold. (2008) The genetic architecture of reproductive isolation in Louisiana Irises: pollination syndromes and pollinator preferences. Evolution 62: 740-752 (PDF).
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Arnold, M. L., Y. Sapir, and N. H. Martin. (2008) Genetic exchange and the origin of adaptation – prokaryotes to primates. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 363(1505):2813-2820 (PDF).
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Sapir, Y. (2009) Effects of floral traits and plant genetic composition on pollinator behavior. Arthropod-Plant Interactions 3: 115-129 (PDF).
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Dorman, M.*, Y. Sapir, and S. Volis. (2009) Local adaptation in four Iris species tested in a common garden experiment. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 98: 267-277 (PDF).
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Sapir, Y. (2009) Pollination genetics: Using molecular genetic underlying floral traits to study pollination ecology in an evolutionary context. Israel Journal of Plant Sciences 57(3): 141-149 (PDF).
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Dorman, M.*, P. Melnik, Y. Sapir, and S. Volis. (2009) Factors affecting dormancy of Oncocyclus iris seeds. Israel Journal of Plant Sciences 57(4):329-333 (PDF).
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Volis, S., M. Blecher, and Y. Sapir. (2010) Application of complex conservation strategy to Iris atrofusca of the Northern Negev, Israel. Biodiversity and Conservation 19:3157-3169 (PDF).
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Volis, S., M. Dorman, M.* Blecher, Y. Sapir and L. Burdeniy. (2011) Variation partitioning in canonical ordination reveals no effect of soil but an effect of co-occuring species on translocation success in Iris atrofusca. Journal of Applied Ecology 48:265-273 (PDF).
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Sapir, Y. and R. Mazzucco. (2012) Post-zygotic reproductive isolation among populations of Iris atropurpurea: the effect of spatial distance among crosses and the role of inbreeding and outbreeding depression in determining niche width. Evolutionary Ecology Research 14: 425–445 (PDF).
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Golodets, C., J. Kigel, Y. Sapir, and M. Sternberg. (2013) Quantitative versus qualitative vegetation sampling methods: a lesson from a grazing experiment in a Mediterranean grassland. Applied Vegetation Science 16:502-508 (PDF).
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Watts, S., Y. Sapir, B. Segal and A. Dafni. (2013) The endangered Iris atropurpurea (Iridaceae) in Israel: honeybees, night-sheltering male bees and female solitary bees as pollinators. Annals of Botany 111:395-407 (PDF).
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Lavi, R.* and Y. Sapir. (2015) Are pollinators the agents of selection for the extreme large size and dark color in Oncocyclus irises? The New Phytologist 205: 369-377 (PDF).
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Sapir Y., Dorchin, A. and Y. Mandelik (2015) Indicators of Pollinator Decline and Pollen Limitation. Ch. 8 In: Armon, R. H. and O. Hänninen (eds.) Environmental Indicators: Springer Netherlands, pp. 103-115 (PDF).
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Tessler, N., Sapir, Y., Wittenberg, L. and Greenbaum, N. (2016). Recovery of Mediterranean Vegetation after Recurrent Forest Fires: Insight from the 2010 Forest Fire on Mount Carmel, Israel. Land Degradation & Development. 27: 1424-1431 DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2419 (PDF).
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Wilson, C. A., J. Padiernos and Y. Sapir (2016) The royal irises (Iris subg. Iris sect. Oncocyclus): Plastid and low-copy nuclear data contribute to an understanding of their phylogenetic relationships. Taxon, 65:35-46 (PDF).
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Bigio, L.*, M. Lebel* and Y. Sapir (2016) Do different measures of maternal fitness affect estimation of natural selection on floral traits? A lesson From Linum pubescens (Linaceae). Journal of Plant Ecology, 10:406-413 (PDF).
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Yardeni, G.*, N. Tessler, E. Imbert, and Y. Sapir. (2016) Reproductive isolation between populations of Iris atropurpurea is associated with ecological differentiation. Annals of Botany 118:971-982 (PDF).
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Perry, O., Y. Sapir, G. Perry, H. ten Hove, and M. Fine. (2017) Substrate selection of Spirobranchus in the Gulf of Eilat. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 98(4): 791-799 (PDF).
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Sapir, Y., K. Karoly, V. Koelling, H. F. Sahli, F. N. Knapczyk, and J. K. Conner. (2017) Effect of expanded variation in anther position on pollinator visitation to wild radish, Raphanus raphanistrum. Annals of Botany 120: 665-672 (PDF).
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Sapir, Y. and M. Ghara* (2017) The (relative) importance of pollinator-mediated selection for evolution of flowers. American Journal of Botany. 104 (12): 1787 – 1789 (PDF).
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Dorchin, A., A. Dafni, I. Izhaki, Y. Sapir and N. J. Vereecken. (2018) Patterns and drivers of wild bee community assembly in a Mediterranean IUCN Important Plant Area. Biodiversity and Conservation. 27: 695-717 (PDF).
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Souto-Vilarós, D., A. Vuleta, S. Manitasević Jovanović, S. Radović, H. Wang, Y. Sapir and E. Imbert (2018) A test for pollinator-mediated selection on flower colour and size in two deceptive- pollinated dwarf bearded Iris species. Oikos. 127: 834-846 (PDF).
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Lebel, M.*, U. Oboloski, L. Hadany and Y. Sapir (2018) Pollinator-mediated selection on floral size and tube color in Linum pubescens: can differential behavior and preference in different times of the day maintain dimorphism? Ecology and Evolution 8:1096–1106. (PDF).
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Nguyen, H. M.*, Y. Sapir and G. Winters (2018) Differences in flowering sex ratios between native and invasive populations of the seagrass Halophila stipulacea. Botanica Marina DOI: 10.1515/bot-2018-0015 (PDF).
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Shemesh, H., G. Shani*, Y. Carmel, R. Kent and Y. Sapir (2018) To mix or not to mix the sources of relocated plants? The case of the endangered Iris lortetii. Journal of Nature Conservation 45: 41-47 (PDF).
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Galili, E., D. Cvikel, J. Benjamin, D. Langgut, J. McCarthy, M. Cavanagh, Y. Sapir, M. Weinstein-Evron, S. Chaim, B. Rosen and L. Kolska Horwitz. (2018) The archaeology and paleoenvironment of the submerged Pottery Neolithic settlement of Kfar Samir (Israel). Paléorient 44(2): 113–132 (PDF).
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Sapir, Y., Y. Sapir and A. Faust (2019) Use of floristic characteristics of contemporary vegetation for identifying archaeologically relevant sites: Tel ‘Eton archaeological site as a test case. Israel Journal of Plant Sciences 66: 60-68 (PDF).
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Penner*, S., Dror*, B., Aviezer*, I., Bar-Lev*, Y., Salman-Minkov, A., Mandakova, T., Šmarda, P., Mayrose, I. and Sapir, Y. (2019) Phenology and polyploidy in annual Brachypodium species (Poaceae) along the aridity gradient in Israel. Journal of Systematics and Evolution: DOI: 10.1111/jse.12489 (PDF).
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Veits*, M., U. Ben-Dor*, P. Estlein, A. Kabat, U. Obolski, A. Boonman, E. Zinger, T. Khait, D. A. Chamovitz, Y. Sapir, Y. Yovel, and L. Hadany (2019). Plants can hear: flowers respond to pollinator sound within minutes by producing sweeter nectar. Ecology Letters. 22: 1483-1492 (PDF).
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Nguyen, H. M.*, I. Savva, P. Kleitou, D. Kletou, F. P. Lima, Y. Sapir, and G. Winters (2020) Seasonal dynamics of native and invasive Halophila stipulacea populations—A case study from the northern Gulf of Aqaba and the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Aquatic Botany 162:103205 (PDF).
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Nguyen, H. M.*, N. S. Yadav, S. Barak, F. P. Lima, Y. Sapir, and G. Winters. (2020) Responses of invasive and native populations of the seagrass Halophila stipulacea to simulated climate change. Frontiers in Marine Science 6:812.
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Roguz*, K., M. K. Gallagher*, E. Senden*, Y. Bar-Lev*, M. Lebel*, R. Heliczer*, and Y. Sapir. (2020). All the Colors of the Rainbow: Diversification of Flower Color and Intraspecific Color Variation in the Genus Iris. Frontiers in Plant Science 11:1519 (PDF).
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Sapir, Y., S. Pariente, Y. Sapir, H. Katz, and A. Faust. (2021) Topsoil formation processes as indicated from geoarchaeological investigations at Tel 'Eton, Israel, and its environment. Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 21:85-107 (PDF).
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Sapir, Y., M. K. Gallagher*, and E. Senden*. (2021) What maintains flower colour variation within populations? Trends in Ecology and Evolution (PDF).
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Penner*, S. and Y. Sapir. (2021). Foliar endophytic fungi inhabiting an annual grass along an aridity gradient. Current Microbiology 78:2080-2090.
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Bar-Lev, Y.*, E. Senden*, M. Pasmanik-Chor, and Y. Sapir. (2021) De novo Transcriptome Characterization of Iris atropurpurea (the Royal Iris) and Phylogenetic Analysis of MADS-box and R2R3-MYB Gene Families. Scientific Reports 11:16246 (PDF).
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Osmolovsky, I.* M. Shifrin*, I. Gamliel, J. Belmaker, and Y. Sapir. (2022) Eco-Geography and Phenology Are the Major Drivers of Reproductive Isolation in the Royal Irises, a Species Complex in the Course of Speciation. Plants 11, 3306. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11233306 (PDF).
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Lozada-Gobilard, S.*, A. Motter*, and Y. Sapir. (2023) Among-years rain variation is associated with flower size, but not with signal patch size in Iris petrana. Ecology 104:e3839 (PDF).
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Lozada-Gobilard, S.*, N. Nielsen*, and Y. Sapir. 2023. Flower Size as an Honest Signal in Royal Irises (Iris Section Oncocyclus, Iridaceae). Plants 12:2978 (PDF).
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The Herbivory Variability Network. 2023. Plant size, latitude, and phylogeny explain within-population variability in herbivory. Science 382:679-683 (PDF; Supplementary).
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Phukela, B., Leonard, H., & Sapir, Y. (2024). In silico analysis of R2R3-MYB transcription factors in the basal eudicot model, Aquilegia coerulea. 3 Biotech, 14(11), 284. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13205-024-04119-y
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Saabna*, N., T. Keasar, & Y. Sapir. 2024. The Roles of Florivory and Herbivory in Maintaining Intra-population Flower Color Variation in Anemone coronaria. Plant Biology (accepted).
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Lebel Vine*, M., M. Walczak, G. Lebel Vine, O. Fragman-Sapir, H. Leschner, Y. Ur, M. Ron, D. Ben-Natan, B. Shemesh, A. Singer and Y. Sapir .2024. Are local species prioritization lists sufficient for protecting endangered plants? Israeli red list as a test case. Conservation Science and Practice (accepted).
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Preprints:
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Ghara, M.*, C. Ewerhardy*, G. Yardeni*, M. Matzliach*, and Y. Sapir (2017) Does floral herbivory reduce pollination-mediated fitness in shelter rewarding Royal Irises? bioRxiv: DOI: 10.1101/184382 (PDF).
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Penner S.* and Y. Sapir (2019) Local adaptation to abiotic and biotic stresses and phenotypic selection on flowering time in annual brachypodium spp. Along an aridity gradient. BioRxiv: DOI: 10.1101/783779.