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Birds

PUBLICATIONS

2025

A Levi, O Meir, O Vilk, R Nathan, S Toledo, O Kolodny, Y Vortman

Homing through ecological barriers in Balkan pond turtles

Biology Letters

2024

Y Lavner, R Melamed, M Bashan, Y Vortman

Corrigendum to “The bioacoustic soundscape of a pandemic: Continuous annual monitoring using a deep learning system in Agmon Hula Lake Park”

Ecological Informatics

2024

G Sherf, A Levi, E Natan, Y Vortman

Short-term antibiotics, induced magnetic field, and magnetic sensitivity in a migratory songbird

bioRxiv

2024

D Zinßmeister, M Leibovitch, E Natan, S Turjeman, O Koren, M Travisano, Y Vortman

Detecting life by behavior, the overlooked sensitivity of behavioral assays

Scientific Reports

2024

A Yael, R Fishman, D Matas, T Doniger, Y Vortman, L Koren

Fetal endocrine axes mRNA expression levels are related to sex and intrauterine position

Biology of Sex Differences

2024

M Avdeev, S Tal, R Fishman, Y Vortman, U Shanas

THE EFFECT OF 4-VINYLCYCLOHEXENE DIEPOXIDE ON FEMALE NUTRIA (MYOCASTOR COYPUS) FERTILITY IN CAPTIVITY—A PILOT STUDY

Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine

2024

R Fishman, S Kralj-Fišer, S Marglit, L Koren, Y Vortman

Fathers and sons, mothers and daughters: Sex-specific genetic architecture for fetal testosterone in a wild mammal

Hormones and Behavior

2024

Y Lavner, R Melamed, M Bashan, Y Vortman

The bioacoustic soundscape of a pandemic: Continuous annual monitoring using a deep learning system in Agmon Hula Lake Park

Ecological Informatics

2023

R Fishman, L Koren, R Ben-Shlomo, U Shanas, Y Vortman

Paternity share predicts sons’ fetal testosterone

Scientific Reports

2023

D Sela-Klein, Y Lavner, Y Vortman

Breeding biology of the White-throated Kingfisher Halcyon smyrnensis smyrnensis, with emphasis on color and vocalization

Journal of Ornithology

2022

A Lotem, Y Vortman, RJ Safran

The evidence for divergent sexual selection among closely related barn swallow populations is strong

Evolution

2022

S Toledo, S Mendel, A Levi, Y Vortman, W Ullmann, LR Scherer, ...

Vildehaye: A family of versatile, widely-applicable, and field-proven lightweight wildlife tracking and sensing tags

ACM/IEEE Int. Conf. on Information Processing in Sensor Networks

2022

Y Werber, E Natan, Y Lavner, Y Vortman

Antibiotics affect migratory restlessness orientation

Journal of Ethology

2022

R Fishman, S Kralj-Fišer, S Marglit, L Koren, Y Vortman

Quantitative genetic study suggests sex-specific genetic architecture for fetal testosterone in a wild mammal

BioRxiv

2022

A Marck, Y Vortman, O Kolodny, Y Lavner

Identification, Analysis and Characterization of Base Units of Bird Vocal Communication

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

2020

AK Hund, JK Hubbard, T Albrecht, Y Vortman, P Munclinger, S Krausová, ...

Divergent sexual signals reflect costs of local parasites

Evolution

2020

E Natan, RR Fitak, Y Werber, Y Vortman

Symbiotic magnetic sensing: raising evidence and beyond

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

2019

Y Kiat, Y Vortman, N Sapir

Feather moult and bird appearance are correlated with global warming over the last 200 years

Nature Communications

2019

H Barmatz, D Klein, Y Vortman, S Toledo, Y Lavner

A method for automatic segmentation and parameter estimation of bird vocalizations

International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing

2019

R Fishman, Y Vortman, U Shanas, L Koren

Non-model species deliver a non-model result: Nutria female fetuses neighboring males in utero have lower testosterone

Hormones and Behavior

2018

H Barmatz, D Klein, Y Vortman, S Toledo, Y Lavner

Segmentation and analysis of bird trill vocalizations

IEEE Int. Conf. on Science of Electrical Engineering

2018

R Fishman, Y Vortman, U Shanas, L Koren

Cortisol advantage of neighbouring the opposite sex in utero

Royal Society Open Science

2017

E Natan, Y Vortman

The symbiotic magnetic-sensing hypothesis

Movement Ecology

2016

MR Wilkins, H Karaardıç, Y Vortman, TL Parchman, T Albrecht, ...

Phenotypic differentiation is associated with divergent sexual selection among closely related barn swallow populations

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

2016

RJ Safran, Y Vortman, BR Jenkins, JK Hubbard, MR Wilkins, RJ Bradley, ...

The maintenance of phenotypic divergence through sexual selection

Evolution

2016

RJ Safran, ESC Scordato, MR Wilkins, JK Hubbard, BR Jenkins, ...

Genome‐wide differentiation in closely related populations

Molecular Ecology

2015

Y Vortman, RJ Safran, T Reiner Brodetzki, R Dor, A Lotem

Expression of multiple sexual signals by fathers and sons

PLoS One

2014

S Toledo, O Kishon, Y Orchan, Y Bartan, N Sapir, Y Vortman, R Nathan

Lightweight low-cost wildlife tracking tags using integrated transceivers

European Embedded Design in Education and Research Conference

2013

Y Vortman, A Lotem, R Dor, I Lovette, RJ Safran

Multiple sexual signals and behavioral reproductive isolation

The American Naturalist

2013

Y Vortman

The evolution of multiple sexual signals in the East-Mediterranean barn swallow

Tel-Aviv University

2013

T Laskemoen, T Albrecht, A Bonisoli-Alquati, J Cepak, F de Lope, ...

Variation in sperm morphometry and sperm competition among barn swallow populations

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

2012

R Dor, RJ Safran, Y Vortman, A Lotem, A McGowan, MR Evans, IJ Lovette

Population genetics and morphological comparisons of migratory and sedentary barn swallows

Journal of Heredity

2011

R Dor, IJ Lovette, RJ Safran, SM Billerman, GH Huber, Y Vortman, ...

Low Variation in the Polymorphic Clock Gene Poly-Q Region

PLoS One

2011

Y Vortman, A Lotem, R Dor, IJ Lovette, RJ Safran

The sexual signals of the East-Mediterranean barn swallow

Behavioral Ecology

2010

Y Vortman, A Lotem, I Lovette, RJ Safran

The unique sexual signals of the East-Mediterranean barn swallow

Israel Journal of Ecology & Evolution

2006

A Ben-Dov, Y Vortman, A Lotem

First documentation of sibling cannibalism in a small passerine species

Ibis

Where Can

You Find Us

Hula Research Center, The Agamon Hula-JNF Nature and Ornithology Park, Hula Valley

Department of Animal Sciences,

Faculty of Sciences and Technology,

Tel-Hai Academic College

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