Stern A., Sorek R. The phage-host arms race: shaping the evolution of microbes. Bioessays. In press.
Stern A., Keren L., Wurtzel O., Amitai G., Sorek R. Widespread targeting of self-DNA by the prokaryotic CRISPR immune system: gene regulation or autoimmunity? Trends in Genetics. 2010 26(8):335-340.
Stern A., Mayrose I., Shaul S., Gophna U., Pupko T. An Evolutionary Analysis of Lateral Gene Transfer in Thymidylate Synthase Enzymes. Systematic Biology. 59(2): 212-225.
Sela N, Stern, A., Pupko, T., Ast, G. Transduplication resulted in incorporation of a conserved protein domain sequence
within the transposable element Harbinger Turmoil-1 in C. elegans. Biology Direct. 2008 Oct 8;3:41
Penn O.*,
Stern A.*, Rubinstein N., Dutheil J., Bacharach E., Galtier N., Pupko T. 2008. Evolutionary modeling of rate shifts reveals specificity
determinants in HIV-1 subtypes. PLoS Computational Biology. 2008 Nov;4(11):e1000214. *Authors contributed equally.
Cohen, O., Rubinstein, ND., Stern, A., Gophna, U., and Pupko, T.
A likelihood framework to analyze phyletic patterns.
Proceedings of The Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences.
2008 Dec 27;363(1512):3903-11.
Stern, A., Doron-Faigenboim, A., Erez, E., Martz, E., Bacharach, E., Pupko, T. Selecton 2007:
advanced models for detecting positive and purifying selection using a Bayesian inference approach. Nucleic Acids Research. 35: W506-W511.
Stern, A., Privman, E., Rasis, M., Lavi, S., Pupko, T. 2007. Evolution of the metazoan protein phosphatase 2C superfamily.
J. Mol. Evol. 64(1):61-70.
Stern, A., Pupko, T. 2006. An Evolutionary Space-Time Model with Varying Among Site Dependencies.
Mol. Biol. Evol. 23: 392-400
Doron-Faigenboim, A.*, Stern, A.*, Mayrose, I., Bacharach, E., and Pupko, T. 2005.
Selecton: a server for detecting evolutionary forces at a single amino-acid
site. Bioinformatics. 21(9): 2101-2103. *Authors contributed equally.