Eviatar Nevo
University of Haifa
Primary Section: 27, Evolutionary Biology Secondary Section: 63, Environmental Sciences and Ecology Membership Type:
International Member
(elected 2000)
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Research Interests
Adaptive Evolution and speciation models, allopatric and sympatric, across life from viruses and bacteria through fungi, plants, and mammals . Model organisms include Spalax, wild barley, Hordeum spontaneum, wild emmer wheat, Triticum dicoccoides. In application, Cancer resistance in Spalax, and plants from extreme , stressful environments, and crop improvement in plants, primarily wheat and barley.