
Updated: 2001





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Insect Physiology - regulation of pheromone production: moths, ants and honeybees |
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Chemical Ecology - nestmate recognition in ants; insect-plant interaction |
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Plant protection - pear psylla, red palm weevil |



1989 |
Soroker, V. and Rafaeli, A. In vitro hormonal stimulation of acetate incorporation by Heliothis armigera pheromone glands. Journal of Insect Biochemistry, 19, 1-5. |
1989 |
Rafaeli, A. and Soroker, V. Cyclic-AMP mediation of the hormonal stimulation of 14C-acetate incorporation by Heliothis armigera in vitro pheromone glands. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, 65, 43-48. |
1990 |
Rafaeli, A., Soroker, V., Klun, J.A. and Raina, A.K. Stimulation of de novo pheromone biosynthesis of (Z)-11 hexadecenal by in vitro pheromone glands of Heliothis spp. In A.B. Borkovec & E. Masler (eds.), Insect Neurochemistry and Neurophysiology (pp. 309-312). Humana Press Inc., Clifton, NJ. |
1990 |
Rafaeli, A., Soroker, V., Kamensky, B., and Raina, A.K. Action of PBAN on in vitro pheromone glands of Heliothis armigera females. Journal of Insect Physiology, 36, 641-646. |
1991 |
Rafaeli, A., Hirsh, J., Soroker, V., Kamensky, B. and Raina, A.K. Spatial & temporal distribution of pheromone biosynthesis activating neuropeptide (PBAN) in Helicoverpa (Heliothis) armigera using RIA and in vitro bioassay. Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology, 18, 119-129. |
1991 |
Rafaeli, A., Kamensky, B. and Soroker, V. The use of cryopreservation for convenient bioassay of in vitro insect organs. Physiological Entomology, 16, 457-461. |
1993 |
Rafaeli, A., Hirsh, J., Soroker, V., Kamensky, B. and Raina, A.K. Influence of photoperiod and age on the competence of the pheromone glands and on the distribution of immunoreactive PBAN in Helicoverpa spp. Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology, 22, 169-180. |
1994 |
Toahara, K., Soroker, V. and Prestwich, G.D. Photoaffinity labeling of Juvenile hormone epoxide hydrolase and Juvenile hormone binding proteins during ovarian and egg development in Manduca sexta. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 24, 633-640. |
1994 |
Soroker, V., Vienne, C., Nowbahari, E. and Hefetz A. The Postpharyngeal gland as a "Gestalt" organ for nestmate recognition in the ant Cataglyphis niger. Naturwissenschaften, 81, 510-513. |
1995 |
Soroker, V., Vienne, C., and Hefetz A. Hydrocarbon dynamics within and between nestmates in Cataglyphis niger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Chemical Ecology, 21, 365-378. |
1995 |
Soroker, V. and Rafaeli, A. Multi-signal transduction of the pheromonotropic response by pheromone gland cultures of Helicoverpa armigera. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 25, 1-9. |
1995 |
Vienne, C., Soroker, V., and Hefetz A. Congruency of hydrocarbon patterns in heterospecific groups of ants: transfer and/or biosynthesis. Insect Sociaux, 42, 267-277. |
1995 |
Soroker, V., Hefetz, A., Cojocaru, M., Billen, J., Franke, S. and Franke W. Structural and chemical ontogeny of the postpharyngeal gland of the desert ant Cataglyphis niger. Physiological Entomology, 20, 323-329. |
1996 |
Rafaeli, A., Soroker, V., Kamensky, B. Gileadi, C. and Zisman, U. Physiological and cellular mode of action of pheromone biosynthesis activating neuropeptide (PBAN) in the control of pheromonotropic activity in Female moths. In R.T. Carde and A.K. Minks (eds), Insect pheromone research: New directions (pp. 74-83). New York: Chapman & Hall. |
1997 |
Katzav-Gozansky, T., Soroker, V. and Hefetz, A. Plasticity and caste-specific dufour's gland secretion in the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.). Naturwissenschaften, 84, 238-241. |
1997 |
Katzav-Gozansky, T. Soroker, V. and Hefetz, A. The biosynthesis of Dufour?s gland constituents in queens of the honeybee (Apis mellifera). Invertebrate Neuroscience, 3, 239-243. |
1998 |
Lahav, S., Soroker, V. Vander Meer R.K. and Hefetz, A. Nestmate recognition in the ant Cataglyphis niger: Do queens matter? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 43, 203-212. |
1998 |
Soroker, V. Freneuz D. and Hefetz, A. The formation of colony odor in the ponerine ant Pachycondyla apicalis (Formicidae: Ponerinae). Journal of Chemical Ecology, 24, 1077-1090. |
1999 |
Lahav, S., Soroker, V., Vander Meer, R.K. and Hefetz, A. Direct behavioral evidence for hydrocarbons as ant recognition discriminators. Naturwissenschaften, 86, 246-249. |
2000 |
Boulay, R. Soroker, V. Godzinsky, E.J., Hefetz, A. and Lenoir A. Octopamine reverses isolation-induced increase in trophallaxis in the Carpenter ant Camponotus fellah. Journal of Experimental Biology, 203, 513-520. |
2000 |
Katzav-Gozansky, T. Soroker, V. and Hefetz, A. Plasticity in caste related exocrine secretion biosynthesis in honeybee. Journal of Insect Physiology, 46, 993-998. |
2000 |
Boulay, R. Hefetz, A. Soroker, V., and Lenoir A. Camponotus fellah colony integration: worker individuality necessitates frequent hydrocarbon exchanges. Animal Behaviour, 59, 1127-1133. |
2000 |
Soroker, V. and Hefetz, A. Hydrocarbon site of synthesis and circulation in the desert ant Cataglyphis niger. Journal of Insect Physiology, 46, 1097-1102. |
2001 |
Hefetz, A., Soroker, V., Dabbi, A., Malherbe, M.C., and Freneuz D. The front basitarsal brush in Pachycondyla apicalis and its role in hydrocarbon circulation. Chemoecology, 11, 17-24. |
2001 |
Katzav-Gozansky, T. Soroker, V. Ionesko, A. Robinson, G.E., and Hefetz, A. Task related chemical analysis of labial gland secretion in the worker honeybees (Apis mellifera ligustica). J. Chemical Ecology, 27, 919-926. |
2001 |
Lahav, S., Soroker, V., Vander Meer, R.K. and Hefetz, A. Segregation of colony odor in the ant Cataglyphis niger. J. Chemical Ecology, 27, 927-943. |
2001 |
Palevsky, E., Soroker, V, Weintraub, P, Mansour, F, Abu-Moach, F and Gerson, U. How specific is the phoretic relationship between broad mite, Polyphagotarsonemus latus (Banks) (Acari: Tarsonemidae), and its insect vectors? Exp. & Appl. Acrol., 25, 217-224. |


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