Publications
2022
Dormant phages communicate via arbitrium to control exit from lysogeny
Nitzan Aframian, Shira Omer Bendori, Stav Kabel, Polina Guler, Avigail Stokar-Avihail, Erica Manor, Kholod Msaeed, Valeria Lipsman, Ilana Grinberg, Alaa Mahagna & Avigdor Eldar
Biophysical aspects underlying the swarm to biofilm transition
Vasco M. Worlitzer, Ajesh Jose, Ilana Grinberg, Markus Bär, Sebastian Heidenreich, Avigdor Eldar, Gil Ariel & Avraham Be’er
2021
Jordi van Gestel, Tasneem Bareia, Bar Tenennbaum, Alma Dal Co, Polina Guler, Nitzan Aframian, Shani Puyesky, Ilana Grinberg, Glen G D’Souza, Zohar Erez, Martin Ackermann, Avigdor Eldar
A mobile genetic element increases bacterial host fitness by manipulating development
Joshua M Jones, Ilana Grinberg, Avigdor Eldar, Alan D Grossman
See a Research Highlight of the work in Nature Reviews Microbiology
2020
A Bacterial Tower of Babel: Quorum-Sensing Signaling Diversity and Its Evolution
Nitzan Aframian, Avigdor Eldar
Annual Review of Microbiology
Moran Meir, Noam Harel, Danielle Miller, Maoz Gelbart, Avigdor Eldar, Uri Gophna, Adi Stern
Science advances
2018
Clonality and non-linearity drive facultative-cooperation allele diversity
Ishay Ben-Zion, Shaul Pollak and Avigdor Eldar
Selection for increased quorum-sensing cooperation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa through the shut-down of a drug resistance pump
Ron D. Oshri+, Keren S. Zrihen+, Itzhak Shner, Shira Omer Bendori and Avigdor Eldar
2017
Self-sensing in Bacillus subtilis quorum-sensing systems
Tasneem Bareia, Shaul Pollak, Avigdor Eldar
2016
Transient Duplication-Dependent Divergence and Horizontal Transfer Underlie the Evolutionary Dynamics of Bacterial Cell–Cell Signaling
Eran Even-Tov, Shira Omer Bendori, Shaul Pollak, Avigdor Eldar
Social evolution selects for redundancy in bacterial quorum sensing
Eran Even-Tov, Shira Omer Bendori, Julie Valastyan, Xiaobo Ke, Shaul Pollak, Tasneem Bareia, Ishay Ben-Zion, Bonnie L. Bassler and Avigdor Eldar.
Facultative cheating supports the co-existence of multiple quorum-sensing pherotypes
Shaul Pollak, Shira Omer Bendori, Eran Even-Tov, Valeria Lipsman, Tasneem Bareia, Ishay Ben-Zion, Avigdor Eldar.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 113(8):2152-7 (2016) Download
(See also a commentary on this work by Pérez-Escudero and Gore on the same journal issue)
2015 and earlier
A complex path for domestication of B. subtilis sociality
Shaul Pollak, Shira Omer Bendori, Avigdor Eldar
The RapP-PhrP quorum sensing system of Bacillus subtilis strain NCIB3610 affect biofilm formation through multiple targets, due to an atypical signal-insensitive allele of RapP
Bendori Omer Shira, Pollak Shaul, Hizi Dorit, Eldar Avigdor.
From Dusk till Dawn: One-Plasmid Systems for Light-Regulated Gene Expression
Ohlendorf, R., R. Vidavski, Eldar A, Moffat K, Möglich A.
Macromotives and microbehaviors: the social dimension of bacterial phenotypic variability
Peter Reuven and Avigdor Eldar (Review)
Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, 21 (6): 759-767 (2011) Download
Social conflict drives the evolutionary divergence of quorum sensing
Avigdor Eldar.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 108 (33): 13635-13640 (2011) Download