User profiles for S. Shafir

Sharoni Shafir

- Verified email at mail.huji.ac.il - Cited by 8272

Shira Shafir

- Verified email at g.ucla.edu - Cited by 1094

Nutritional physiology and ecology of honey bees

GA Wright, SW Nicolson, S Shafir - Annual review of entomology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
… Hendriksma & Shafir (58) conducted experiments with colonies in which bees were confined
to forage from artificial diets in a netted enclosure. Foragers passively balanced colony …

[HTML][HTML] The biology and economics of coral growth

…, S Shafir, S Henard, M Taruffi, C Gili, S Lavorano - Marine …, 2011 - Springer
… It has been estimated that approximately 10% of the world’s population is directly or
indirectly … Both in our study on S. caliendrum and in the study by Houlbrèque et al. (2004) on …

Current issues and considerations regarding trichomoniasis and human immunodeficiency virus in African-Americans

SC Shafir, FJ Sorvillo, L Smith - Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
Trichomonas vaginalis has long been recognized as one of the most prevalent sexually
transmitted infections. However, it is only in recent years that it has been appreciated that …

Predicting risk sensitivity in humans and lower animals: risk as variance or coefficient of variation.

EU Weber, S Shafir, AR Blais - Psychological review, 2004 - psycnet.apa.org
… To test for an effect of zero versus nonzero outcomes, Shafir combined both positive and …
We can provide this information, however, for a subset of experiments analyzed by Shafir (2000…

Causes and consequences of sea urchin abundance and diversity in Kenyan coral reef lagoons

TR McClanahan, SH Shafir - Oecologia, 1990 - Springer
Large differences in community structure of sea urchins and finfish have been observed in
Kenyan reef lagoons. Differences have been attributed to removal of finfish predators through …

Context-dependent violations of rational choice in honeybees (Apis mellifera) and gray jays (Perisoreus canadensis)

S Shafir, TA Waite, BH Smith - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2002 - Springer
… , hoarded the raisin(s) in one or more arboreal sites, and then returned to the experimental
setup. During the interim, we rearranged the tubes and replenished the raisin(s). Over the …

Trichoderma Biocontrol of Colletotrichum acutatum and Botrytis cinerea and Survival in Strawberry

…, D Rav-David, A Bilu, A Dag, S Shafir… - European Journal of …, 2004 - Springer
… were determined using Fisher’s protected least significant difference (… -PCR, this was
followed by 30 cycles consisting of 30 s at 95 … was followed by 40 cycles consisting of 30 s at 95 …

IAPV, a bee‐affecting virus associated with Colony Collapse Disorder can be silenced by dsRNA ingestion

E Maori, N Paldi, S Shafir, H Kalev, E Tsur… - Insect molecular …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… The real-time program was as follows: 95 C for 10 min, followed by 45 cycles, each cycle
consisting of 95 C for 10 s and 60 C for 30 s. At the end samples were subjected to 40 C for 30 s

Steps in the construction of underwater coral nursery, an essential component in reef restoration acts

S Shafir, J Van Rijn, B Rinkevich - Marine Biology, 2006 - Springer
Many coral reefs worldwide are rapidly declining, but efficient restoration techniques are not
yet available. Here, we evaluate methodologies for reef restoration based on the “gardening …

A novel role for proline in plant floral nectars

C Carter, S Shafir, L Yehonatan, RG Palmer… - …, 2006 - Springer
Plants offer metabolically rich floral nectar to attract visiting pollinators. The composition of
nectar includes not only sugars, but also amino acids. We have examined the amino acid …