Refereed publications:
Liron Levin and Dan Mishmar, “The genomic landscape of evolutionary convergence in mammals, birds and reptiles". (2017) Nature ecology & evolution 1 (3), 0041
Tal Cohen^, Liron Levin^ and Dan Mishmar, “Ancient out-of-Africa mitochondrial DNA variants associate with distinct mitochondrial gene expression patterns”. (2016) PLoS genetics 12 (11), e1006407. ^These authors contributed equally.
Liron Levin, Dan Bar-Yaacov, Amos Bouskila, Michal Chorev, Liran Carmel, Dan Mishmar. "LEMONS – A Tool for the Identification of Splice Junctions in Transcriptomes of Organisms Lacking Reference Genomes". (2015) PLoS ONE 10(11): e0143329. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0143329.
Levin, Liron, Ilia Zhidkov, Yotam Gurman, Hadas Hawlena, and Dan Mishmar. "Functional recurrent mutations in the human mitochondrial phylogeny: dual roles in evolution and disease." Genome biology and evolution 5, no. 5 (2013): 876-890.
Levin, Liron, Amit Blumberg, Gilad Barshad, and Dan Mishmar. "Mito-nuclear co-evolution: the positive and negative sides of functional ancient mutations." Frontiers in genetics 5 (2014). (Review)
Levin, Liron, and Dan Mishmar. "A Genetic View of the Mitochondrial Role in Ageing: Killing Us Softly." In Longevity Genes, pp. 89-106. Springer New York, 2015. (Book chapter)
Gershoni, Moran, Liron Levin, Ofer Ovadia, Yasmin Toiw, Naama Shani, Sara Dadon, Nir Barzilai et al. "Disrupting Mitochondrial–Nuclear Coevolution Affects OXPHOS Complex I Integrity and Impacts Human Health." Genome biology and evolution 6, no. 10 (2014): 2665-2680.
Bar-Yaacov, Dan, Gal Avital, Liron Levin, Allison L. Richards, Naomi Hachen, Boris Rebolledo Jaramillo, Anton Nekrutenko, Raz Zarivach, and Dan Mishmar. "RNA–DNA differences in human mitochondria restore ancestral form of 16S ribosomal RNA." Genome research 23, no. 11 (2013): 1789-1796.
Bar-Yaacov, Dan, Zena Hadjivasiliou, Liron Levin, Gilad Barshad, Raz Zarivach, Amos Bouskila, and Dan Mishmar. "Mitochondrial involvement in vertebrate speciation? The case of mito-nuclear genetic divergence in chameleons." Genome biology and evolution (2015): evv226.
Blumberg, Amit, Badi Sri Sailaja, Anshul Kundaje, Liron Levin, Sara Dadon, Shimrit Shmorak, Eitan Shaulian, Eran Meshorer, and Dan Mishmar. "Transcription factors bind negatively selected sites within human mtDNA genes." Genome biology and evolution 6, no. 10 (2014): 2634-2646.
