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Biology and Biochemistry
Israel
2026

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
123
Citations
63192
World Ranking
548
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Israel Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Israel Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Israel Leader Award
  • 2000 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1985 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Eviatar Nevo is affiliated with the University of Haifa in Israel and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a strong emphasis on agricultural and biological sciences. Their research spans molecular biology, ecology, evolution, behavior, systematics, genetics, and paleontology.

Their primary research topics focus on evolution and paleontology studies, genetic diversity and population structure, bat biology and ecology studies, genomics and phylogenetic studies, physiological and biochemical adaptations, high altitude and hypoxia, and chromosomal and genetic variations.

Nevo has co-authored multiple publications with several frequent collaborators, including:

  • Kexin Li
  • Zhuoran Kuang
  • Na Wan
  • Xi Liu
  • Yinjia Wang

Their work has been published in a variety of venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Molecular Ecology
  • Animal Models and Experimental Medicine

Recent papers by Nevo cover topics related to genomics and adaptation in subterranean rodents and high-altitude environments. Selected papers include:

  • "Genomic insights into zokors' phylogeny and speciation in China," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Genome evolution of blind subterranean mole rats: Adaptive peripatric versus sympatric speciation," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Phenotypic and genomic adaptations to the extremely high elevation in plateau zokor (Myospalax baileyi)," 2021, Molecular Ecology
  • "Adaptation of mammals to hypoxia," 2021, Animal Models and Experimental Medicine
  • "Genomic structural variation is associated with hypoxia adaptation in high-altitude zokors," 2024, Nature Ecology & Evolution

Nevo holds distinctions including membership in the National Academy of Sciences since 2000 and fellowship at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1985.

Best Publications

  • Microsatellites: genomic distribution, putative functions and mutational mechanisms: a review.

    You-Chun Li;Abraham B. Korol;Tzion Fahima;Avigdor Beiles

  • Genetic variation in natural populations: patterns and theory.

    Eviatar Nevo

  • Microsatellites Within Genes: Structure, Function, and Evolution

    You-Chun Li;Abraham B. Korol;Tzion Fahima;Eviatar Nevo

  • The Evolutionary Significance of Genetic Diversity: Ecological, Demographic and Life History Correlates

    Eviatar Nevo;Avigdor Beiles;Rachel Ben-Shlomo

  • High-molecular-mass hyaluronan mediates the cancer resistance of the naked mole rat

    Xiao Tian;Jorge Azpurua;Christopher Hine;Christopher Hine;Amita Vaidya

  • Adaptive Convergence and Divergence of Subterranean Mammals

    Eviatar Nevo

  • Genome evolution of wild barley (Hordeum spontaneum) by BARE-1 retrotransposon dynamics in response to sharp microclimatic divergence

    Ruslan Kalendar;Jaakko Tanskanen;Sirkka Immonen;Eviatar Nevo

  • Horizontal gene transfer of Fhb7 from fungus underlies Fusarium head blight resistance in wheat

    Hongwei Wang;Silong Sun;Wenyang Ge;Lanfei Zhao

  • MULTILOCUS STRUCTURE OF NATURAL POPULATIONS OF HORDEUM SPONTANEUM

    A. H. D. Brown;M. W. Feldman;E. Nevo

  • Drought-tolerance of wheat improved by rhizosphere bacteria from harsh environments: enhanced biomass production and reduced emissions of stress volatiles.

    Salme Timmusk;Islam A. Abd El-Daim;Lucian Copolovici;Triin Tanilas

  • Evolution of genome–phenome diversity under environmental stress

    Eviatar Nevo

  • Triticum dicoccoides: An important genetic resource for increasing zinc and iron concentration in modern cultivated wheat

    İsmail Çakmak;A. Torun;E. Millet;M. Feldman

  • Fluctuating Asymmetry: Methods, Theory, and Applications

    John H. Graham;Shmuel Raz;Hagit Hel-Or;Eviatar Nevo

  • Drought and salt tolerances in wild relatives for wheat and barley improvement.

    Eviatar Nevo;Guoxiong Chen

  • Mosaic Evolution of Subterranean Mammals: Regression, Progression, and Global Convergence

    Eviatar Nevo

  • Retrotransposon BARE-1 and Its Role in Genome Evolution in the Genus Hordeum.

    Carlos M. Vicient;Annu Suoniemi;Kesara Anamthawat-Jonsson;Jaakko A. Tanskanen

  • GENETIC DIVERSITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATIONS OF WILD BARLEY, HORDEUM SPONTANEUM, IN ISRAEL.

    Eviatar Nevo;Daniel Zohary;A. H. D. Brown;Michael Haber

  • Biochemical diversity and evolution in the genus Mus.

    François Bonhomme;Josette Catalan;Janice Britton-Davidian;Verne M. Chapman

  • Domestication evolution, genetics and genomics in wheat

    Junhua H. Peng;Junhua H. Peng;Dongfa Sun;Eviatar Nevo

  • Corrigendum: Genome-wide adaptive complexes to underground stresses in blind mole rats Spalax.

    Xiaodong Fang;Eviatar Nevo;Lijuan Han;Erez Y. Levanon

Frequent Co-Authors

Avigdor Beiles
Avigdor Beiles University of Haifa
Tzion Fahima
Tzion Fahima University of Haifa
Giora Heth
Giora Heth University of Haifa
Abraham B. Korol
Abraham B. Korol University of Haifa
Junhua Peng
Junhua Peng Colorado State University
You-Liang Zheng
You-Liang Zheng Sichuan Agricultural University
Aharon Oren
Aharon Oren Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Zhong-Hua Chen
Zhong-Hua Chen University of Adelaide
Yu-Ming Wei
Yu-Ming Wei Sichuan Agricultural University
Yitzhak Hadar
Yitzhak Hadar Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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