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  1. 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). 

  2. 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).

  3. 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).

  4. Sapir, Y. and A. Shmida. (2002) Species concepts and ecogeographical divergence of Oncocyclus irises. Israel Journal of Plant Sciences 50:S119-S127 (PDF).

  5. 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).

  6. 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). 

  7. 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).

  8. 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).

  9. 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)

  10. 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).

  11. 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).

  12. 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).

  13. 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). 

  14. Sapir, Y. (2009) Effects of floral traits and plant genetic composition on pollinator behavior. Arthropod-Plant Interactions 3: 115-129 (PDF).

  15. 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).

  16. 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).

  17. 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).

  18. 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).

  19. 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).

  20. 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).

  21. 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).

  22. 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).

  23. 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).

  24. 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).

  25. 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).

  26. 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).

  27. 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).

  28. 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).

  29. 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).

  30. 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).

  31. 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). 

  32. 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). 

  33. 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).

  34. 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).

  35. 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).

  36. 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).

  37. 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).

  38. 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).

  39. 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).

  40. 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).

  41. 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).

  42. 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. 

  43. 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).

  44. 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).

  45. Sapir, Y., M. K. Gallagher*, and E. Senden*. (2021) What maintains flower colour variation within populations? Trends in Ecology and Evolution (PDF).

  46. Penner*, S. and Y. Sapir. (2021). Foliar endophytic fungi inhabiting an annual grass along an aridity gradient. Current Microbiology 78:2080-2090.

  47. 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).

  48. 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).

  49. 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).

  50. 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).

  51. The Herbivory Variability Network. 2023. Plant size, latitude, and phylogeny explain within-population variability in herbivory. Science 382:679-683 (PDF; Supplementary).

  52. 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

  53. 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).

  54. 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:

  1. 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).

  2. 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.

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