Scientific Publications 2012-2015:
Refereed articles in scientific journals:
1) Bachar A., Soares M.I.M. and Gillor O. (2012). The effect of resource islands on abundance and diversity of bacteria in arid soils. Microbial Ecology. 63:694-700.
2) Pasternak Z., Al-Ashhab A., Gatica J., Gafny R., Avraham S., Frenk S., Minz D., Gillor O. and Jurkevitch E. (2012). Optimization of molecular methods and statistical procedures for forensic fingerprinting of microbial soil communities. International Research Journal of Microbiology. 3: 363-372.
3) Inglis R.F., Bayramoglu B., Gillor O. and Ackermann M. (2013). The role of bacteriocins as selfish genetic elements. Biology Letters. 2013 9: 20121173.
4) Majeed H., Lampert A., Ghazaryan L. and Gillor O. (2013). Dominance of the weak: bacteriocin mediated interactions in bacterial populations. PLoS ONE. 8: e63837.
5) Benami M., Vonshak A., Gross A., Herzberg M., Orlofsky E. and Gillor O. (2013). Assessment of pathogenic bacteria in treated graywater and irrigated soils. Science of the Total Environment. 458:298-302.
6) Orlofsky E., Gillor O., Melli A., Miller W., Wuertz S., Bernstein N. and Shapiro K. (2013). Simultaneous detection of Giardia lambliaandCryptosporidium parvum(oo) cysts in soil using immunomagnetic separation and direct fluorescent antibody staining. Journal of Microbiological Methods. 94: 375-377.
7) Angel R., Pasternak Z., Soares M. I. M., Conrad R. and Gillor O. (2013). Active and total prokaryotic communities in dryland soils. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 86: 130-8.
8) Pasternak Z., Al-Ashhab A., Gatica J., Gafny R., Avraham S., Minz D., Gillor O. and Jurkevitch E. (2013). Spatial and Temporal Biogeography of Soil Microbial Communities in Arid and Semiarid Regions. 8: e69705.
9) Sklarz M. Y., Zhou M., Ferrando Chavez D. L., Yakirevich A., Gillor O., Gross A. and Soares M. I. M. (2013). Effect of Treated Domestic Wastewater on Soil Physicochemical and Microbiological Properties. Journal of Environmental Quality. 42: 1226-123.
10) Al Ashhab A., Herzberg M., Gillor O. (2014). Biofouling of reverse-osmosis membranes during tertiary wastewater desalination: microbial community composition. Water research, 50: 341-349.
11) Ghazaryan L., Soares I.M., Gillor O. (2014). Auto-regulation of DNA degrading bacteriocins: molecular and ecological aspects. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 105 (5): 823-834.
12) Al Ashhab A., Gillor O., Herzberg M. (2014). Biofouling of reverse-osmosis membranes under different shear rates during tertiary wastewater desalination: Microbial community composition. Water research, 67: 86-95.
13) Majeed H., Ghazaryan L., Herzberg M., Gillor O. (2014). Bacteriocin expression in sessile and planktonic populations of Escherichia coli. The Journal of antibiotics, 68: 52–55.
14) Ghazaryan L., Tonoyan L., Al Ashhab A, Soares I.M., Gillor O. (2014). The role of stress in colicin regulation. Archives of microbiology, 196 (11): 753-764.
15) Benami M., Gillor O., Gross A. (2015). The question of pathogen quantification in disinfected graywater. Science of the Total Environment, 506: 496-504.
16) Orlofsky E., Benami M., Gross A., Dutt M., Gillor O. (2015). Rapid MPN-Qpcr Screening for Pathogens in Air, Soil, Water, and Agricultural Produce. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 226 (9): 1-10.
17) Orlofsky E., Bernstein N., Sacks M., Vonshak A., Benami M., Kundu A., Maki M., Smith W., Wuertz S., Shapiro K., Gillor O. (2015). Comparable levels of microbial contamination in soil and on tomato crops after drip irrigation with treated wastewater or potable water. Agricultural Ecosystems and Environment, 215: 140-150.
18) Livne-Luzon S., Shemesh H., Gillor O., Ovadia O. (in press 2015). The effect of temporal variation in soil carbon inputs on interspecific plant competition. Journal of Plant Ecology.