איתי אופטובסקי

ד"ר איתי אופטובסקי

Dr. Itai Opatovsky

מוסד עיקרי

המכללה האקדמית תל חי

Tel Hai College

טלפון

054-4659454

דוא״ל

aptovskiita at telhai.ac.il

קורות חייםCV

דיסציפלינות ראשיותMain Disciplines

תחומי מחקר / מילות מפתחKeywords

Entomology, Insect metabolism, Insect nutrition, Insects for food and feed

פרסומים ויצירות עיקריים / עדכנייםMain / Recent Publications

Kannan, M., Vitenberg, T., Schweitzer, R., Khatib, S., & Opatovsky, I. (2024). Effect of rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) supplement on the growth characteristics and larval metabolism of black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens L.). Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, 10(12), 2031-2046.
Herman N, Vitenberg T, Hayouka Z, Opatovsky I. Regulation of antimicrobial peptides in Hermetia illucens in response to fungal exposure. Sci Rep. 2024 Nov 28;14(1):29561
Ben-Mordechay, T., Gutman, R., Shaltiel-Harpaz, L., & Opatovsky, I. (2024). How to reduce waste using black soldier fly larvae and produce a high-quality product. Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, 10(9), 1547-1554.
Mani K, Vitenberg T, Khatib S, Opatovsky I. Effect of entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana on the growth characteristics and metabolism of black soldier fly larvae. Pestic Biochem Physiol. 2023
Mani K, Vitenberg T, Ben-Mordechai L, Schweitzer R, Opatovsky I. Comparative untargeted metabolic analysis of natural- and laboratory-reared larvae of black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens (L.) (Diptera: Stratiomyidae). Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol. 2023
Kannan, M., Vitenberg, T., Ben-Mordechai, L., Khatib, S., & Opatovsky, I. (2023). Effect of yeast supplementation on growth parameters and metabolomics of black soldier fly larvae, Hermetia illucens (L.) (Diptera: Stratiomyidae). Journal of Insects as Food and Feed.
Kannan, M., Opatovsky, I. A review on nutritional and non-nutritional interactions of symbiotic and associated fungi with insect. Symbiosis 91, 139–149 (2023).
Vitenberg, T., & Opatovsky, I. (2022). Assessing Fungal Diversity and Abundance in the Black Soldier Fly and its Environment. Journal of Insect Science, 22.
Does consumption of baker’s yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) by black soldier fly (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) larvae affect their fatty acid composition?
Tomato cultivars resistant or susceptible to spider mites differ in their biosynthesis and metabolic profile of the monoterpenoid pathway
Control of lettuce big‐vein by application of fungicides and crop covers
Modeling trophic dependencies and exchanges among insects’ bacterial symbionts in a host-simulated environment
First report of the occurrence of Lettuce Big Vein disease in Israel
Crop pests and predators exhibit inconsistent responses to surrounding landscape composition
Use of alternative habitats by spiders in a desert agroecosystem.
Various competitive interactions explain niche separation in crop-dwelling web spiders.
Effects of non-native Eucalyptus plantations on epigeal spider communities in the northern Negev desert, Israel
Molecular characterization of the differential role of immigrant and agrobiont generalist predators in pest suppression
Coping with abrupt decline in habitat quality: effects of harvest on spider abundance and movement
Are spider assemblages in fragmented, semi-desert habitat affected by increasing cover of agricultural crops?
Non-crop habitats in the landscape enhance spider diversity in wheat fields of a desert agroecosystem
Spiders in wheat fields and semi-desert in the Negev (Israel)