Publications
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Piskobulu, V.; Athanasouli, M.; Witte, H.; Feldhaus, C.; Streit, A.; Sommer, R.: High nutritional conditions influence feeding plasticity in Pristionchus pacificus and render worms non-predatory. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 344 (2), pp. 94 - 111 (2025)

Sommer, R.: Pristionchus - Beetle associations: Towards a new natural history. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 209, 108243 (2025)

Patel, H.; Bhardwaj, V.; Thackeray, T.; Campbell, P.; Mirza, Z.: Phylogeny and Systematics of Oligodon juglandifer (Wall, 1909) with Comments on the Taxonomic Status of Oligodon lipipengi Jiang, Wang, Li, Ding, Ding & Che in Che et al. 2020. Diversity 17 (3), 143 (2025)

Almeida, A.; Rocha, H.; Raas, M.; Witte, H.; Sommer, R.; Snel, B.; Kops, G.; Gassmann, R.; Maiato, H.: An evolutionary perspective on the relationship between kinetochore size and CENP-E dependence for chromosome alignment. Journal of Cell Science 137 (24), jcs263466 (2024)

Mirza, Z.; Pattekar, S.; Verma, S.; Stuart, B.; Purkayastha, J.; Mohapatra, P.; Patel, H.: A new long-snouted vine snake species in the genus Ahaetulla Link, 1807 (Colubridae: Chrysopeleinae) from India. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 17 (4), pp. 696 - 703 (2024)

Patel, H.; Vyas, R.; Thackeray, T.; Pal, S.; Mirza, Z.: Notes on the Ophisops beddomei complex (Squamata: Lacertidae) with the description of a new allied cryptic species from western India. Taprobanica 13 (2), pp. 69 - 81 (2024)

Rödelsperger, C.; Röseler, W.; Athanasouli, M.; Wighard, S.; Herrmann, M.; Sommer, R.: Genome Assembly of the Nematode Rhabditoides Inermis From a Complex Microbial Community. Genome Biology and Evolution 16 (11), evae230 (2024)

Wighard, S.; Sommer, R.: The Role of Epigenetic Switches in Polyphenism Control: Implications from a Nematode Model for the Developmental Regulation of Alternative Phenotypes. Biology 13 (11), 922 (2024)

Yoshida, K.; Witte, H.; Hatashima, R.; Sun, S.; Kikuchi, T.; Röseler, W.; Sommer, R.: Rapid chromosome evolution and acquisition of thermosensitive stochastic sex determination in nematode androdioecious hermaphrodites. Nature Communications 15, 9649 (2024)

Herrmann, M.; Kanzaki, N.; Weiler, C.; Theam, P.; Rödelsperger, C.; Sommer, R.: Description of two new Pristionchus species from South Korea. Journal of Nematology 56 (1), 20240032 (2024)

Mirza, Z.; Bhardwaj, V.; Pal, S.; Lalremsanga, H.; Vogel, G.; Campbell, P.; Patel, H.: Phylogeny and systematics of the colubrid snake genera Liopeltis and Gongylosoma (Squamata: Colubridae) and description of a new Himalayan endemic genus and species. Scientific Reports 14 (1), 24743 (2024)

de Ree, V.; Nath, T.; Barua, P.; Harbecke, D.; Lee, D.; Rödelsperger, C.; Streit, A.: Genomic analysis of Strongyloides stercoralis and Strongyloides fuelleborni in Bangladesh. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 18 (9), e0012440 (2024)

Röseler, W.; Sommer, R.; Rödelsperger, C.: Nematode genome announcement: A chromosome-scale genome assembly for the Pristionchus pacificus reference mapping strain PS1843. Journal of Nematology 56 (1), 20240063 (2024)

Mirza, Z.; Bhardwaj , V.; Lalmuanawma, J.; Choure, G.; Lalremsanga, H.; Vabeiryureilai, M.; Captain, A.; Zagade, A.; Patel, H.: A New Species of Smithophis Giri et al. 2019 from the Indo-Burma Region. Diversity 16 (8), 480 (2024)

Mirza, Z.: A Further taxonomic reassessment of Cyrtodactylus madarensis Sharma, 1980 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) now in the genus Eublephairs Gray, 1827 (Squamata: Eublephariade). Taprobanica 13 (1), pp. 9 - 15 (2024)

Mirza, Z.; Gowande, G.; Thackeray, T.; Bhosale, H.; Sawant, M.; Phansalkar, P.; Patel, H.: A New Montane-dwelling Species of Japalura Gray, 1853 (Squamata: Agamidae) from Arunachal Pradesh, India. Taprobanica 13 (1), pp. 1 - 8 (2024)

Idiiatullina, S.; Nguyen, T.; Pawangkhanant, P.; Suwannapoom, C.; Chanhome, L.; Mirza, Z.; David, P.; Vogel, G.; Poyarkov, N.: An integrative taxonomic revision of the Trimeresurus popeiorum group of pitvipers (Reptilia: Serpentes: Viperidae) with descriptions of two new species from the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot. Vertebrate Zoology 4, pp. 303 - 342 (2024)

Shah, K.; He, S.; Turner, D.; Corbo, J.; Rebbani, K.; Dominguez, D.; Bateman, D.; Cheloufi, S.; Igreja, C.; Valkov, E. et al.; Murn, J.: Regulation by the RNA-binding protein Unkempt at its effector interface. Nature Communications 15 (1), 3159 (2024)

Wighard, S.; Witte, H.; Sommer, R.: Conserved switch genes that arose via whole-genome duplication regulate a cannibalistic nematode morph. Science Advances 10 (15), eadk6062 (2024)

Jung, J.; Loschko, T.; Reich, S.; Rassoul-Agha, M.; Werner, M.: Newly identified nematodes from the Great Salt Lake are associated with microbialites and specially adapted to hypersaline conditions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 291 (2018), 20232653 (2024)