Milo S, Harari Misgav R, Hazkani-Covo* E, Covo* S. Limited DNA repair gene repertoire in Ascomycete yeast revealed by comparative genomics. 2019 Genome Biology and Evolution. In press.
Pareek M, Almog Y, Bari VK, Hazkani-Covo E, Onn I, Covo S. Alternative Functional rad21 Paralogs in Fusarium oxysporum. 2019. Frontiers in Microbiology 10:1370.
Portugez S, Martin WF, Hazkani-Covo E. Mosaic mitochondrial-plastid insertions into the nuclear genome show evidence of both non-homologous end joining and homologous recombination. 2018. BMC Evolutionary Biology 18(1):162.
Kapust N, Nelson-Sathi S, Schönfeld B, Hazkani-Covo E, Bryant D, Lockhart PJ, Röttger M, Xavier JC, and Martin WF. Failure to recover major events of gene flux in real biological data due to method misapplication. 2018 Genome Biology and Evolution 10(5):1198-1209.
Lavi B, Levy Karin E, Pupko T, and Hazkani-Covo E. The Prevalence and Evolutionary Conservation of Inverted Repeats in Proteobacteria. 2018. Genome Biology and Evolution 10(3):918-927
Omer S, Lavi B, Mieczkowski PA, Covo S, Hazkani-Covo E. Whole Genome Sequence Analysis of Mutations Accumulated in rad27Δ Yeast Strains with Defects in the Processing of Okazaki Fragments Indicates Template-Switching Events. 2017. G3 7(11):3775-3787.
Hazkani-Covo E, Martin WF. Quantifying the number of independent organelle DNA insertions in genome evolution and human health. 2017. Genome Biology and Evolution. 9(5):1190-1203
Ku C, Nelson-Sathi S, Roettger M, Sousa SL, Lockhart PJ, Bryant D, Hazkani-Covo E, McInerney JO, Landan G and Martin WF. 2015. Nature 524(7566):427-32.
Ku C, Nelson-Sathi S, Roettger M, Garg S, Hazkani-Covo E, and Martin WF. Endosymbiotic gene transfer from prokaryotic pangenomes: inherited chimaerism in eukaryote. 2015. PNAS. pii: 201421385
Song W, Gawel M, Dominska M, Greenwell PW, Hazkani-Covo E, Bloom K, and Petes TD. Nonrandom distribution of interhomolog recombination events induced by breakage of a dicentric chromosome in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 2013. Genetics 194(1): 69-80.
Martin WF, Hazkani-Covo E, Shavit-Greivink L, Schmitt V, Händeler K, Gould SB, Landan G, Graur D, Dagan T. 2012. Gene transfers from organelles to the nucleus: How much, what happens, and why none in Elysia? Journal of Endocytobiosis and Cell Research 23:16–20.
St Charles J*, Hazkani-Covo E*, Yin Y, Andersen SL, Dietrich FS, Greenwell PW, Malc E, Mieczkowski P, and Petes TD. High-resolution genome-wide analysis of irradiated (UV and γ-rays) diploid yeast cells reveals a high frequency of genomic loss of heterozygosity (LOH) events 2012. Genetics 190(4):1267-1284. * Equal contribution
Popa O, Hazkani-Covo E, Landan G, Martin W, and Dagan T. 2011. Directed networks reveal genomic barriers and DNA repair bypasses to lateral gene transfer among prokaryotes. Genome Research (4):599-609.
Hazkani-Covo E, Zeller RM, and Martin W. 2010. Molecular poltergeists: mitochondrial DNA copies (numts) in sequenced nuclear genomes. PLoS Genetics 6(2):e1000834.
Sidlauskas B, Ganapathy G, Hazkani-Covo E, Jenkins KP, Lapp H, McCall LW, Price S, Scherle R, Spaeth PA, Kidd DM. 2010. Linking Big: the continuing promise of evolutionary synthesis. Evolution 64(4):871-80.
Hazkani-Covo E. 2009. Mitochondrial insertions into primate nuclear genomes suggest the use of numts as a tool for phylogeny. Mol Biol Evol. 26(10):2175-2179.
Hazkani-Covo E and Covo S. 2008. Numt-mediated double strand break repair mitigates deletions during primate genome evolution. PLoS Genetics 4(10): e1000237.
Hazkani-Covo E and Graur. D. 2007. A comparative analysis of numt evolution in human and chimpanzee. Mol Biol Evol. 24:13-18.
Hazkani-Covo E and Graur D. 2005. Evolutionary conservation of bacterial operons: does transcriptional connectivity matter? Genetica 124:145-166
Hazkani-Covo E, Wool D, and Graur D. 2005. In search of the vertebrate phylotypic stage: a molecular examination of the developmental hourglass model and von Baer’s third law. J Exp Zoolog B Mol Dev Evol. 304B:150-158.
Hazkani-Covo E, Levanon E, Rotman G, Graur D, and Novik A. 2004. The evolution of multicellularity in Metazoa: a comparative analysis of the subcellular localization of proteins in Saccharomyces, Drosophila, and Caenorhabditis. Cell Biol Int. 28:171-178.
Hazkani-Covo E, Sorek R, and Graur D. 2003. Evolutionary dynamics of large numts in the human genome: rarity of independent insertions and abundance of post-insertion duplications. J. Mol. Evol. 56:169-174.
Hazkani-Covo E, Altman N, Horowitz M, and Graur D. 2002. The evolutionary history of prosaposin: two successive tandem-duplication events gave rise to the four saposin domains in vertebrates. J. Mol. Evol. 54:30-34.