Publications

Adar, S., & Dor R. 2018. Mother doesn't always know best: Maternal wormlion choice of oviposition habitat does not match larval habitat choice. Behavioural processes. 147, 1-4.‏

Sinaiko, G., Magory-Cohen, T., Meiri, S., & Dor R. 2018. Taxonomic revision of Israeli snakes belonging to the Platyceps rhodorachis species complex (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae). Zootaxa, 4379(3), 301-346.‏
Harten, L., Matalon, Y., Galli, N., Navon, H., Dor R., & Yovel, Y. 2018. Persistent producer-scrounger relationships in bats. Science advances. 4(2), e1603293.‏
Cohen, S. B., & Dor R. 2018. Phenotypic divergence despite low genetic differentiation in house sparrow populations. Scientific reports. 8(1), 394.‏
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.‏
Yanai, Z., Sartori, M., Dor R., & Dorchin, N. 2017. Molecular phylogeny and morphological analysis resolve a long‐standing controversy over generic concepts in Ecdyonurinae mayflies (Ephemeroptera: Heptageniidae). Systematic Entomology. 42(1), 182-193.‏
Adar, S., Scharf, I., & Dor R. 2016. The effect of previous experience on trap construction and movement distance in a pit-building predator. The Science of Nature. 103(9-10), 83.‏
Adar, S., Dor R., & Scharf, I. 2016. Habitat choice and complex decision making in a trap-building predator. Behavioral Ecology. 27(5), 1491-1498.‏
Novosolov, M., Rodda, G. H., Feldman, A., Kadison, A. E., Dor R., & Meiri, S. 2016. Power in numbers. Drivers of high population density in insular lizards. Global ecology and biogeography. 25(1), 87-95.‏
Scharf, I., & Dor, R. 2015. The effects of starvation and repeated disturbance on mass loss, pit construction, and spatial pattern in a trap‐building predator. Ecological Entomology. 40(4), 381-389.‏
Vortman, Y., Safran, R. J., Brodetzki, T. R., Dor R., & Lotem, A. 2015. Expression of multiple sexual signals by fathers and sons in the East-Mediterranean barn swallow: are advertising strategies heritable?. PloS one. 10(2), e0118054. ISO 690‏

Stager M., Cerasale D. J., Dor R., Winkler D. W., Cheviron Z. A. 2014. Signatures of natural selection in the mitochondrial genomes of Tachycineta swallows and their implications for latitudinal patterns of the ‘pace of life’. Gene (In press). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2014.05.019.

Dor R., S. Rosenstein, I. Scharf. 2014. Foraging behaviour of a neglected pit-building predator: The wormlion. Animal Behaviour. 93: 69-76.

Botero C. A., R. Dor, C. M. McCain, R. J. Safran. 2014. Environmental harshness is positively correlated with intraspecific divergence in mammals and birds. Available online, Molecular Ecology. 23: 259-268. doi: 10.1111/mec.12572.

Hut R. H., S. Paolucci, R. Dor, C. P. Kyriacou, S. Daan. 2013. Latitudinal clines: an evolutionary view on biological rhythms. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 280: 1471-2954.

Vortman Y., A. Lotem, R. Dor, I. J. Lovette and R. J. Safran. 2013. Multiple sexual signals and behavioral reproductive isolation in a diverging population. American Naturalist. 182: 514-523.

Dor R., M. D. Carling, F. H. Sheldon, D. W. Winkler and I. J. Lovette. 2012. Species tree for the Tree Swallows (Genus Tachycineta): an alternative phylogenetic hypothesis to the mitochondrial gene tree. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 65: 317–322.

Cerasale D. J., R. Dor, D. W. Winkler, I. J. Lovette. 2012. Phylogeny of the Tachycineta genus of New World swallows: Insights from complete mitochondrial genomes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 63: 64–71.

Dor R., C. B. Cooper, I. J. Lovette, V. Massoni, F. Bulit, M. Liljesthrom, and D. W. Winkler. 2012. Clock gene variation in Tachycineta Swallows. Ecology and Evolution. 2: 95-105.

Vitousek M. N., R. Dor, and R. J. Safran. 2012. Sexual signaling: Climatic carry-over (Invited dispatch). Current Biology 22: R61-R63.

Dor R., R. J. Safran, Y. Vortman, A. Lotem, A. McGowen, M. R. Evans and I. J. Lovette. 2012. Population genetics and morphological comparisons of migratory European (Hirundo rustica rustica) and sedentary East-Mediterranean (H. r. transitiva) Barn Swallows. Journal of Heredity. 103: 55-63.

Dor R., I. J. Lovette, R. J. Safran, S. M. Billerman, G. Huber, Y. Vortman, A. Lotem, A. McGowan, M. R. Evans, C. B. Cooper, and D. W. Winkler. 2011. Low variation in the polymorphic Clock gene poly-Q region despite population genetic structure across Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) populations. PLoS ONE 6(12):e28843.

Vortman Y., A. Lotem, R. Dor, I. J. Lovette and R. J. Safran. 2011. The sexual signals of the East-Mediterranean barn swallow: a different swallow tale. Behavioral Ecology 22: 1344-1352.

Grodzinski U., R. Dor and A. Lotem. 2011. Begging for a better future: how far can behavioral ecologists go without specifying mechanisms? (Invited commentary). Behavioral Ecology 22: 921-922.

Schrey A. W., M. Grispo, M. Awad, M. B. Cook, E. D. McCoy, H. R. Mushinsky, T. Albayrak, S. Bensch, T. Burke, L. K. Butler, R. Dor, H. B. Fokidis, H. Jensen, T. Imboma, M. M.Kessler-Rios, A. Marzal, I. R. K.Stewart, H. Westerdahl, D. F. Westneat, P. Zehtindjiev and L. B. Martin. 2011. Broad-scale latitudinal patterns of genetic diversity among native European and introduced house sparrow (Passer domesticus) populations. Molecular Ecology 20: 1133-1143.

Dor R. and A. Lotem. 2010. Parental effort and response to nestling begging in the house sparrow: repeatability, heritability, and parent-offspring co-evolution. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23: 1605–1612.

Dor R., R. J. Safran, F. H. Sheldon, D. W. Winkler and I. J. Lovette. 2010. Phylogeny of the genus Hirundo and the Barn Swallow subspecies complex. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 56: 409-418.

Dor R. and A. Lotem. 2009. Heritability of nestling begging intensity in the house sparrow (Passer domesticus). Evolution. 63: 738-748.

Dor R., H. Kedar, D. W. Winkler and A. Lotem. 2007. Begging in the absence of parents: A "quick on the trigger" strategy to minimize costly misses. Behavioral Ecology. 18: 97-102.

Dor R., T. Katzav-Gozansky and A. Hefetz. 2005. Dufour's gland pheromone as a reliable signal for reproductive dominance among honeybee (Apis mellifera) workers. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 58: 270-276.