Faculty and Researchers

Olga Raskina Ph.D.

Senior Researcher Office: Multi-Purpose Building, Room 229 | Phone: 972-4-8240-785 | Fax: 972-4-8288-235 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Subject: Evolution and speciation of wild wheats; microevolution; repetitive DNA in plant evolution; molecular cytogenetics Lab website | Contact | Photo album | Publications | CV

Research Interests

• Wild wheats evolution and speciation
• Transposable elements in plant evolution
• Population genetics
• Molecular cytogenetics

Selected Publications

Raskina O, Brodsky L, Belyayev A. 2011. Tandem repeats on an eco-geographical scale: outcomes from the genome of Aegilops speltoides. Chromosome Research 19: 607-623. Link

Belyayev A, Kalendar R, Brodsky L, Nevo E, Schulman A, Raskina O. 2010. Transposable elements in a marginal plant population: temporal fluctuations provide new insights into genome evolution of wild diploid wheat. Mobile DNA 1: 6. (Link)

Raskina O, Barber J, Nevo E, Belyayev A. 2008. Repetitive DNA and chromosomal rearrangements: speciation-related events in plant genome. Cytogenetic and Genome Research 120: 351-357 (invited paper). (Link)

Raskina O, Belyayev A, Nevo E. 2004. Quantum speciation in Aegilops: molecular cytogenetic evidence from rDNA clusters variability in natural populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA101: 14818-14823. (Link)

Raskina O, Belyayev A, Nevo E. 2004. Activity of the En/Spm-like transposons in meiosis as a base for chromosome repatterning in a small, isolated, peripheral population of Aegilops speltoides Tausch. Chromosome Research 12: 153-161. (Link)