Area of research
Paleontology · Molecular Biology
Research interest
Research interests include Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, and Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies.
Shedding light on the embryogenesis and eye development of the troglophile cave spider Tegenaria pagana C. L. Koch, 1840 (Araneae: Agelenidae)
Vestigial organs alter fossil placements in an ancient group of terrestrial chelicerates
The Evolutionary Biology of Chelicerata
The Rediscovery of a Relict Unlocks the First Global Phylogeny of Whip Spiders (Amblypygi)
Neglected no longer: Phylogenomic resolution of higher-level relationships in Solifugae
In the land of the blind: Exceptional subterranean speciation of cryptic troglobitic spiders of the genus Tegenaria (Araneae: Agelenidae) in Israel
Phylogenomic data reveal three new families of poorly studied Solifugae (camel spiders)
Pseudoscorpions of Israel: Annotated Checklist and Key, with New Records of Two Families (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones)
Comprehensive Species Sampling and Sophisticated Algorithmic Approaches Refute the Monophyly of Arachnida
Phylogenomics of Scorpions Reveal Contemporaneous Diversification of Scorpion Mammalian Predators and Mammal-Active Sodium Channel Toxins
Recent speciation and phenotypic plasticity within a parthenogenetic lineage of levantine whip spiders (Chelicerata: Amblypygi: Charinidae)
Taxonomic Sampling and Rare Genomic Changes Overcome Long-Branch Attraction in the Phylogenetic Placement of Pseudoscorpions
Phylogenomic Resolution of Sea Spider Diversification through Integration of Multiple Data Classes
Systemic paralogy and function of retinal determination network homologs in arachnids
Ordered phylogenomic subsampling enables diagnosis of systematic errors in the placement of the enigmatic arachnid order Palpigradi
The anatomy of an unstable node: a Levantine relict precipitates phylogenomic dissolution of higher-level relationships of the armoured harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones: Laniatores)
The house spider genome reveals an ancient whole-genome duplication during arachnid evolution
Pan-arthropod analysis reveals somatic piRNAs as an ancestral defence against transposable elements
First global molecular phylogeny and biogeographical analysis of two arachnid orders (Schizomida and Uropygi) supports a tropical Pangean origin and mid‐Cretaceous diversification
A premeiotic function for <i>boule</i> in the planarian <i>Schmidtea mediterranea</i>
Phylogenomic Interrogation of Arachnida Reveals Systemic Conflicts in Phylogenetic Signal
Investigating the Bivalve Tree of Life – an exemplar-based approach combining molecular and novel morphological characters