Selected Recent Publications

School Contact Information

Koret School of Veterinary Medicine,
The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agricultural, Food & Environment,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Address: Herzl 229, P.O. Box 12,
Rehovot 76100, Israel

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489021/31;
Fax: +972-(0)8-9467940
E-Mail: vet.school@mail.huji.ac.il

 

Roca, A.L. *, G. Kahila Bar-Gal*, E. Eizirik, M. S. Springer, K.M. Helgen, R. Maria, S.J. O’Brien and W. J. Murphy. 2004. Mesozoic origin for West Indian insectivores. Nature 429, 649-651.
(*These authors contributed equally).

Hershkovitz, I., H.D. Donoghue, D.E. Minnikin, G.S. Besra, O.Lee, A.M. Gernaey C, E.Galili, V. Eshed, C.L. Greenblatt, E. Lemma, G. Kahila Bar-Gal, M. Spigelman. 2008. Detection and Molecular Characterization of 9000-Year- Old Mycobacterium tuberculosis from a Neolithic Settlement in the Eastern Mediterranean. PLoS ONE. 3(10): e3426.

Driscoll, C.A., N. Yamaguchi1, G. Kahila Bar-Gal, A.L. Roca, S. Luo, D.W. Macdonald, S.J. O’Brien. 2009. Mitochondrial Phylogeography Illuminates the Origin of the Extinct Caspian Tiger and Its Relationship to the Amur Tiger. PLoS ONE. 4(1): e4125.

Polani, S.*, A.L. Roca*, B.B. Rosensteel , S.O. Kolokotronis and G. Kahila Bar-Gal. 2010. Evolutionary dynamics of endogenous feline leukemia virus proliferation among species of the domestic cat lineage. Virology 405: 397-407.

Hermon, D., R. Gafny, A. Zamir , Lia Hadas , M. Faerman and G. Kahila Bar-Gal. 2011. The genetic signature of a shrunken head. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 3:223-228.

Gila Kahila Bar-Gal, Myeung Ju Kim, Athalia Klein, Dong Hoon Shin , Chang Seok Oh, Kim Jong Wan, Tae-Hyun Kim, Seok Bae Kim, Paul Robert Grant, Orit Pappo, Mark Spigelman and Daniel Shouval. 2012. Tracing Hepatitis B virus to the 16th century in a Korean mummy. Hepathology.

 

Chapters in books

Spigelman, M., Shin, D.H. and Kahila Bar Gal, G. (2011) The Promise, the Problems, and the Future of DNA Analysis in Paleopathology Studies, In: Grauer A.L. (ed.) A Companion to Paleopathology, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, doi: 10.1002/9781444345940.ch8

Smith, P. and G. Kahila Bar-Gal. (2018) Age biases in Phoenician Funerary Practices: The example of Achziv. In: J. Aviram, A. Ben-Tor, J. Magness and E. Stern (ed.) Eretz-Israel,

Archaeological, Historical and Geographical Studies, The Israel Exploration Society in cooperation with The Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Vol 33, 163-174 pp.

Abbo S. and A. Gopher with a contribution by G. Kahila Bar-Gal. (2022) The Origins of Plant Domestication in the Ancient Near East. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge CB2 8BS, United Kingdom.

Prereview publications

Der Sarkissian, C., L. Ermini, M. Schubert, M. A. Yang, P. Librado, M. Fumagalli, H. Jónsson, G. Kahila Bar-Gal, et al., (2015) Evolutionary genomics and conservation of the endangered Przewalski’s horses. Current Biology, 25, pp.1–7. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.08.032.

Feldman M., I. Hershkovitz, E.H. Sklan, G. Kahila Bar-Gal, I. Pap, I. Szikossy, & R. Rosin-Arbesfeld.  (2016) Detection of a Tumor Suppressor Gene Variant Predisposing to Colorectal Cancer in an 18th Century Hungarian Mummy. PLoS ONE, 11(2), pp. e0147217. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0147217.

Hadas L., D. Hermon, & G. Kahila Bar-Gal (2016) Before they are gone – improving gazelle protection using wildlife forensic genetics. Forensic Science International: Genetics 24, pp. 51–54.

Faerman M., G. Kahila Bar-Gal, E. Boaretto, G. Boeskorov, N.A. Dokuchaev, O.A. Ermakov, F. Golenishev, S.V. Gubin, Е. Mintz, V.L. Surinv, S.V. Titovv, O.G. Zanina, & N.A. Formozov. (2017) DNA analysis of a 30,000-year-old Urocitellus glacialis from northeastern Siberia reveals phylogenetic relationships between ancient and present-day arctic ground squirrels. Scientific Reports (7) 42639, DOI: 10.1038/srep42639.

Schaefer R.J., M. Schubert, E. Bailey, D.L. Bannasch, E. Barrey, G. Kahila Bar-Gal, et al. (2017) Development of a high-density, 2M SNP genotyping array and 670k SNP imputation array for the domestic horse” BMC Genomics, 18, pp. 565-583. DOI 10.1186/s12864-017-3943-8

Shaffer L.G., C. Ramirez, P. Phelps, M. Aviram, M. Walczak, G. Kahila Bar-Gal, & B.C. Ballif (2018) An International Genetic Survey of Breed-specific Diseases in Working Canines from the United States, Israel and Poland. Cytogenet Genome Res, DOI: 10.1159/000486774

Polani S., Dean M., Lichter-Peled A., Hendrickson S., Tsang S. Fang X., Feng Y., Qiao W., Avni G. & Kahila Bar-Gal G. (2018) Sequence Variant in the TRIM39-RPP21 Gene Readthrough is Shared across a Cohort of Arabian Foals Diagnosed with Juvenile Idiopathic Epilepsy. J. Gene Mutat. 2018;1:103.

Ashkenazi H., D. Langgut, S. Lev-Yadun, E. Weiss, N. Liphschitz, G. Kahila Bar-Gal, and Y. Goren. (2021) Microhistory in Archaeology and its Contribution to the Archaeological Research: The Burial from “The Cave of the Warrior” as a Test Case. Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies (JEMAHS) 9(4): 376–394. https://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.9.4.0376

Tal S., G.A. Sutton, S.P. Arlt, G. Kahila Bar-Gal. (2022) Analysis of biochemical parameters in canine fetal fluids during the second half of pregnancy. Theriogenology (under review).

Smith P., G. Kahila Bar-Gal, E. Eisenberg, H. Roth, S. Segal, L. Cosijns (2022) A Bioanthropological Investigation of Bronze Age Burial Customs in Nahal Refaim (Jerusalem).