Dr. Yoni Vortman : Behavioral Ecology

Phylogenetic relationship between birds and their magneto-microbiome

M Leibovitch, R Fitak, E Natan, Y Vortman
2026 , bioRxiv, 2026.01. 20.700517

A reproducible model for magnetosensitivity: earthworms in transparent soil reduce their cumulative movement in an extremely weak magnetic field

M Bar-Ziv, D Szklowin, O Pearlson, Y Vortman
2025 , Biology Letters 21 (10)

Magnetoreception and the ruling hypothesis

Y Vortman, R Fitak, E Natan
2025 , Journal of Experimental Biology 228 (7), jeb250252

Building Complexity From Simplicity: A Songbird's Vocal Repertoire Varies Among Populations Despite Similarity of Syllables

A Marck, O Kolodny, Y Vortman, R Ben‐Shlomo, Y Lavner
2025 , Ecology and Evolution 15 (9), e72020

Homing through ecological barriers in Balkan pond turtles

A Levi, O Meir, O Vilk, R Nathan, S Toledo, O Kolodny, Y Vortman
2025 , Biology Letters 21 (3), 20240442

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

Y Lavner, R Melamed, M Bashan, Y Vortman
2024 , Ecological Informatics 83, 102834

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

Y Lavner, R Melamed, M Bashan, Y Vortman
2024 , Ecological Informatics 80, 102528

Detecting life by behavior, the overlooked sensitivity of behavioral assays

D Zinßmeister, M Leibovitch, E Natan, S Turjeman, O Koren, M Travisano, ...
2024 , Scientific reports 14 (1), 18904

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

G Sherf, A Levi, E Natan, Y Vortman
2024 , bioRxiv, 2024.09. 19.613835

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

M Avdeev, S Tal, R Fishman, Y Vortman, U Shanas
2024 , Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 55 (2), 412-423

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

R Fishman, S Kralj-Fišer, S Marglit, L Koren, Y Vortman
2024 , Hormones and Behavior 161, 105525

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

A Yael, R Fishman, D Matas, T Doniger, Y Vortman, L Koren
2024 , Biology of sex Differences 15 (1), 61

Finding a Needle in a Haystack Using Microbial Behavior (magnetotaxis)

BB Cervera, M Travisano, Y Vortman
2024 , 2024 Astrobiology Science Conference

Paternity share predicts sons’ fetal testosterone

R Fishman, L Koren, R Ben-Shlomo, U Shanas, Y Vortman
2023 , Scientific Reports 13 (1), 16737

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

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=vBU9aBwAAAAJ&cstart=20&pagesize=80&citation_for_view=vBU9aBwAAAAJ:mVmsd5A6BfQC
2023 , Journal of Ornithology 164 (1), 151-161

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

R Fishman, S Kralj-Fišer, S Marglit, L Koren, Y Vortman
2022 , BioRxiv, 2022.02. 18.480975

Antibiotics affect migratory restlessness orientation

Y Werber, E Natan, Y Lavner, Y Vortman
2022 , Journal of Ethology 40 (2), 175-180

Identification, Analysis and Characterization of Base Units of Bird Vocal Communication: The White Spectacled Bulbul (Pycnonotus xanthopygos) as a Case Study

A Marck, Y Vortman, O Kolodny, Y Lavner
2022 , Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 15, 812939

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

S Toledo, S Mendel, A Levi, Y Vortman, W Ullmann, LR Scherer, ...
2022 , 2022 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in …

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

A Lotem, Y Vortman, RJ Safran
2022 , Evolution 76 (9), 2204-2211

Divergent sexual signals reflect costs of local parasites

AK Hund, JK Hubbard, T Albrecht, Y Vortman, P Munclinger, S Krausová, ...
2020 , Evolution 74 (10), 2404-2418

Symbiotic magnetic sensing: raising evidence and beyond

E Natan, RR Fitak, Y Werber, Y Vortman
2020 , Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375 (1808), 20190595

Antibiotics affect migratory restlessness orientation

Y Werber, E Natan, Y Lavner, Y Vortman
2020 , bioRxiv, 2020.02. 14.949651

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

Y Kiat, Y Vortman, N Sapir
2019 , Nature Communications 10 (1), 2540

A method for automatic segmentation and parameter estimation of bird vocalizations

H Barmatz, D Klein, Y Vortman, S Toledo, Y Lavner
2019 , 2019 International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing …