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Anne L. Sapiro^*, Anat Shmueli*, Gilbert Lee Henry, Qin Li, Tali Shalit, Orly Yaron, Yoav Paas, Jin Billy Li and Galit Shohat-Ophir. (2019) Illuminating spatial A-to-I RNA editing signatures within the Drosophila brain. * Authors contributed equally. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 5;116(6):2318-2327.

Anat Shmueli, Tali Shalit, Eitan Okun and Galit Shohat-Ophir. (2018) The Toll pathway in the Central Nervous system of flies and mammals. NeuroMolecular Medicine. 20(4):419-436.

Bentzur, A., Shmueli, A., Omesi, L., Ryvkin, J., Knapp, J.M., Parnas, M., Davis, F.P., Shohat-Ophir, G. (2018). Odorant binding protein 69a connects social interaction to modulation of social responsiveness in Drosophila. PLoS Genet 14, e1007328.

Ryvkin, J., Bentzur, A., Zer-Krispil, S., Shohat-Ophir, G. (2018). Mechanisms Underlying the Risk to Develop Drug Addiction, Insights From Studies in Drosophila melanogaster. Front Physiol 9, 327.

Zer-Krispil, S., Zak, H., Shao, L., Ben-Shaanan, S., Tordjman, L., Bentzur, A., Shmueli, A., Shohat-Ophir, G. (2018). Ejaculation Induced by the Activation of Crz Neurons Is Rewarding to Drosophila Males. Curr Biol 28, 1445-1452 e1443.

Featured in Curr Biol. 2018 21;28(10):R614-R616. The study received enormous press coverage including articles in The New Yorker, Newsweek, London Times, Los Angeles Times, National Geographic, Le Monde, The Atlantic and covered by Reuters.  

Zer, S., Ryvkin, J., Wilner, H.J., Zak, H., Shmueli, A., Shohat-Ophir, G. (2016). A Simple Way to Measure Alterations in Reward-seeking Behavior Using Drosophila melanogaster. J Vis Exp.

Shohat-Ophir, G., Kaun, K.R., Azanchi, R., Mohammed, H., and Heberlein, U. (2012). Sexual deprivation increases ethanol intake in Drosophila. Science 335, 1351-1355.

Featured in Nature doi:10.1038/nature.2012.10227

(Recommended by Faculty of 1000 as a must to read).