Yovel, Y., & Rechavi, O. (2023) AI and the Doctor Dolittle challenge. Current Biology 33,15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.06.063. (open article)

Werber, Y., Sextin, H., Yovel, Y., & Sapir, N. (2023). BATScan: A radar classification tool reveals large-scale bat migration patterns. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 00, 1– 16. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14125. (open article)

Khait, I., Lewin-Epstein, O., Sharon, R., Saban, K., Goldstein, R., Anikster, Y., Zeron, Y., Agassy, C., Nizan, S., Sharabi, G., Perelman, R., Boonman, A., Sade, N., Yovel, Y. & Hadany, L. (2023) Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and informative. Cell, 186(7), 1328-1336. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2023.03.009. (open article)

Chudnovsky, A., Goldshtein, A., Shashua-Bar, L., Yovel, Y., & Potchter, O. (2023). Bat bio-assisted sampling (BAS) for monitoring urban heat island. Applied Geography, 155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2023.102952. (open article)

Tarnovsky, C. Y., Taiber, S., Nissan, Y., Boonman, A., Assaf, Y., Wilkinson, S. G., Avraham, B. K., & Yovel, Y. (2023) Bats experience age-related hearing loss. Life Science Alliance, 6 (6) e202201847; DOI: 10.26508/lsa.202201847. (open article)

Taub, M., Mazar, O., & Yovel Y. (2023) Pregnancy-related sensory deficits might impair foraging in echolocating bats. BMC Biology 21, 60. DOI 10.1186/s12915-023-01557-7. (open article)

Amit, Y., & Yovel, Y. (2023) Bat vocal sequences enhance contextual information independently of syllable order. iScience, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.106466. (open article)

Eitan, O., Taub, M., Boonman, A., Zviran, A., Tourbabin, V., Weiss, A.J. & Yovel, Y. (2022) Echolocating bats rapidly adjust their mouth gape to control spatial acquisition when scanning a target. BMC Biology 20, 282. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-022-01487-w. (open article) 

Goldshtein, A., Akrish, S., Giryes, R. & Yovel, Y. (2022) An artificial neural network explains how bats might use vision for navigation. Communications Biology 5, 1325. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04260-5. (open article) 

Werber, Y., Hareli, G., Yinon, O., Sapir, N. & Yovel, Y. (2022) Drone-mounted audio-visual deterrence of bats: implications for reducing aerial wildlife mortality by wind turbines. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.316. (open article) 

Weinberg, M., Mazar, O., Rachum, A., Chen, X., Goutink, S., Lifshitz, N., Winter-Livneh, R., Czirjak, G. & Yovel, Y. (2022) Seasonal challenges of tropical bats in temperate zones. Scientific Reports 12, 16869. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-21076-9. (open article)

Weinberg, M. & Yovel, Y. (2022) Revising the paradigm: Are bats really pathogen reservoirs or do they possess an efficient immune system? iScience, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.104782. (open article)

Eitan, O., Weinberg, M., Danilovich, S., Barkai, Y., Assa, R., Yovel, Y. (2022) Functional daylight echolocation in highly visual bats. Current Biology 32, 7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.02.075. (open article)

Zigelman R, Eitan O, Mazar O, Weiss A, Yovel Y (2022) A bio-mimetic miniature drone for real-time audio based short-range tracking. PLOS Computational Biology 18(3): e1009936. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009936. (open article)

Goldshtein, A., Harten, L., & Yovel, Y. (2021) Mother bats facilitate pup navigation learning. Current Biology 32, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.11.010. (open article)

Luo, J., Greif, S., Ye, H., Bumrungsri, S., Eitan, O. & Yovel, Y. (2021) Flight rapidly modulates body temperature in freely behaving bats. Animal Biotelemetry 9, 45. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-021-00268-6. (open article)

Smarsh GC., Tarnovsky Y., Yovel Y. (2021) Hearing, echolocation, and beam steering from day 0 in tongue-clicking bats.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 288: 20211714. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1714. (open article)

Harten, L., Gonceer, N., Handel, M., Dash, O., Fokidis, B.H., & Yovel, Y. (2021) Urban bat pups take after their mothers and are bolder and faster learners than rural pups. BMC Biology 19, 190. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-01131-z. (open article)

Taub, M., Yovel, Y. (2021) Adaptive learning and recall of motor-sensory sequences in adult echolocating bats. BMC Biology 19, 164. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-01099-w. (open article)

Egert-Berg, K., Handel, M., Goldshtein, A., Eitan, O., Borissov, I., & Yovel, Y. (2021). Fruit bats adjust their foraging strategies to urban environments to diversify their diet. BMC biology, 19(1), 1-11.  https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-01060-x. (open article)

E. Amichai & Y. Yovel (2021). Echolocating bats rely on an innate speed-of-sound reference. PNAS 118 (19) e2024352118;doi: 10.1073/pnas.2024352118. (open article)

Moreno, K. R., Weinberg, M., Harten, L., Ramos, V. B. S., Herrera-M, L. G., Czirják, G. Á., & Yovel, Y. (2021). Sick Bats Stay Home Alone: Social distancing during the acute phase response in Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus). Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1-13. doi: 10.1111/nyas.14600. (open article)

Krivoruchko, K., Goldshtein, A., Boonman, A., Eitan, O., Ben-Simon, J., Thong, V. D., & Yovel, Y. (2021). Fireflies produce ultrasonic clicks during flight as a potential aposematic anti-bat signal. iScience, 24:3. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102194. (open article)

Boonman, A., Rieger, I., Amichai, E., Greif, S., Eitan, O., Goldshtein, A., & Yovel, Y. (2020). Echolocating bats can adjust sensory acquisition based on internal cues. BMC biology, 18(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-020-00904-2. (open article)

Danilovich, S., Shalev, G., Boonman, A., Goldshtein, A., & Yovel, Y. (2020). Echolocating bats detect but misperceive a multidimensional incongruent acoustic stimulus. PNAS .doi:10.1073/pnas.2005009117/-/DCSupplemental. (open article)

A. Goldshtein, M. Handel, O. Eitan, A. Bonstein, T. Shaler, S. Collet, S. Greif, R. A. Medellı´n, Y. Emek, A. Korman & Y. Yovel (2020) Reinforcement Learning Enables Resource Partitioning in Foraging Bats. Current Biology 30, 1–7. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.07.079. (open article)

Mazar, O. & Yovel, Y. (2020) A sensorimotor model shows why a spectral jamming avoidance response does not help bats deal with jamming. eLife; 9:e55539 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.55539. (open article) 

Currie, S.E., Boonman, A., Troxell, S., Yovel, Y. & Voigt, C.C. (2020) Echolocation at high intensity imposes metabolic costs on flying bats. Nature ecology & evolution, 4, 1174-1177. doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1249-8 (open article)

L. Harten, A. Katz, A. Goldshtein, M. Handel & Y. Yovel (2020) The ontogeny of a mammalian cognitive map in the real world. Science, 369, 194-197. DOI: 10.1126/science.aay3354. (open article)

Assaf, Y., Bouznach, A., Zomet, O., Marom, A., & Yovel, Y. (2020). Conservation of brain connectivity and wiring across the mammalian class. Nature Neuroscience, 23, 805-808. doi.org/10.1038/s41593-020-0641-7. (open article)

Y. Prat, Y. Yovel (2020) Decision making in foraging bats. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 60, 169-175. ISSN 0959-4388. doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2019.12.006. (open article)

Taub, M., Yovel, Y. (2020) Segregating signal from noise through movement in echolocating bats. Scientific Reports 10, 382. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-57346-2 (open article)

Yovel, Y and Eliakim, I (2020) The Robat-A Robot That Senses the World and Maps It Using Sound, Like a Bat. Frontiers for Young Minds. 8:7. doi: 10.3389/frym.2020.00007

Boonman A, Fenton B, Yovel Y (2019) The benefits of insect-swarm hunting to echolocating bats, and its influence on the evolution of bat echolocation signals. PLOS Computational Biology 15(12): e1006873. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006873. (open article)

Eitan. O, Kosa. G and Yovel. Y (2019) Sensory gaze stabilization in echolocating bats. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 286. doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1496. (open article)

M. Veits, I. Khait, U. Obolski, E. Zinger, A. Boonman, A. Goldshtein, K. Saban, R. Seltzer, U. Ben-Dor,1 Paz Estlein,1 A. Kabat, D. Peretz, I. Ratzersdorfer, S. Krylov, D. Chamovitz, Y. Sapir, Y. Yovel, L. Hadany (2019) Flowers respond to pollinator sound within minutes by increasing nectar sugar concentration. Ecology Letters, doi: 10.1111/ele.13331 (open article)

S. Danilovich and Y. Yovel (2019) Integrating vision and echolocation for navigation and perception in bats. Science Advances,5: eaaw6503 (open article)

E. Hurme, E. Gurarie, S. Greif, L.G. Herrera M., J. J. Flores-Martínez, G.S. Wilkinson and Y. Yovel (2019) Acoustic evaluation of behavioral states predicted from GPS tracking: a case study of a marine fishing bat. Movement Ecology,7:21 (open article)

Harten, L., Prat, Y., Ben Cohen, S., Dor, R. & Yovel, Y. (2019) Food for Sex in Bats Revealed as Producer Males Reproduce with Scrounging Females. Current Biology 29, 1-6 (open article)

E. Amichai, S. Tal, A. Boonman & Y. Yovel (2019) Ultrasound Imaging Reveals Accelerated In-utero Development of a Sensory Apparatus in Echolocating Bats.  Scientific Reports 9, 5275 (open article)

Greif, S. & Yovel, Y. (2019) Using on-board sound recordings to infer behaviour of free-moving wild animals. Journal of Experimental Biology, 222 (open article)

Kolodny, O., Weinberg, M., Reshef, L., Harten, L., Hefetz, A., Gophna, U., Feldman, M.W. & Yovel, Y. (2018). Coordinated change at the colony level in fruit bat fur microbiomes through time. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1 (open article) 

Egert-Berg et al. (2018) Resource ephemerality drives social foraging in bats. Current Biology, Volume 28, 1–7 (open article) 

Eliakim I, Cohen Z, Kosa G, Yovel Y (2018) A fully autonomous terrestrial bat-like acoustic robot. PLOS Computational Biology 14(9): e1006406. (open article)

Genzel. D, Y. Yovel, M.M. Yartsev (2018) Neuroethology of bat navigation. Current Biology , Volume 28 , Issue 17 , R997 - R1004 (open article)

L. Harten, Y. Matalon, N. Galli, H. Navon, R. Dor, Y. yovel (2018) Persistent producer-scounger relationships in bats. Science Advances 4: e1603293 (open article)

G. Aharon, M. Sadot, Y. Yovel (2017) Bats use path-integration rather than acoustic- flow to assess flight distance along flyways.  Current Biology 27, 1-8 (open article)

Prat Y, Azoulay L, Dor R, Yovel Y (2017) Crowd vocal learning induces vocal dialects in bats: Playback of conspecifics shapes fundamental frequency usage by pups. PLOS Biology 15(10): e2002556 (open article)

Prat, Y., Taub, M., Pratt, E., & Yovel, Y. (2017) An annotated dataset of Egyptian fruit bat vocalizations across varying contexts and during vocal ontogeny.  Scientific data, 4, 170143 (open article) 

E. Amichai, Y. Yovel (2017) Bats pre-adapt sensory acquisition according to target distance prior to takeoff even in the presence of closer background objects. Scientific Reports 7, 467 (open article)

Christian C. Voigt, Winifred F. Frick, Marc W. Holderied, Richard Holland, Gerald Kerth, Marco A. R. Mello, Raina K. Plowright, Sharon Swartz, and Yossi Yovel (2017) Principles and Patterns of Bat Movements: From Aerodynamics to Ecology.The Quarterly Review of Biology 92:3, 267-287 (open article)

Y. Prat, M. Taub, Y. Yovel (2016) Everyday bat vocalizations contain information about emitter, addressee, context, and behavior. Scientific Reports 6, 39419 (open article)

Amichai E, Blumrosen G, & Yovel Y (2015) Calling louder and longer: how bats use biosonar under severe acoustic interference from other bats. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 282(1821)  (open article)

G. Arditi, A. J. Weiss, Y. Yovel (2015) Object localization using a biosonar beam: how opening your mouth improves localization, Royal Society open science  2 150225  (open article)

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