Publications of RJ Sommer

Herrmann, M.; Kanzaki, N.; Ragsdale, E.; Sommer, R.: Redescription of four species of the genus Pristionchus (Nematoda: Diplogastridae) from the United States of America. Dumerilia 7, pp. 97 - 103 (2017)

Weadick, C.; Sommer, R.: Unexpected sex-specific post-reproductive lifespan in the free-living nematode Pristionchus exspectatus. Evolution and Development 18 (5-6), pp. 297 - 307 (2016)

Herrmann, M.; Weiler, C.; Rödelsperger, C.; Kanzaki, N.; Sommer, R.: Two New Pristionchus Species (Nematoda: Diplogastridae) from Taiwan are Part of a Species-cluster Representing the Closest Known Relatives of the Model Organism P. pacificus. Zoological Studies 55, e48 (2016)

Markov, G.; Meyer, J.; Panda, O.; Artyukhin, A.; Claaßen, M.; Witte, H.; Schroeder, F.; Sommer, R.: Functional Conservation and Divergence of daf-22 Paralogs in Pristionchus pacificus Dauer Development. Molecular Biology and Evolution 33 (10), pp. 2506 - 2514 (2016)

Sanghvi, G.; Baskaran, P.; Röseler, W.; Sieriebriennikov, B.; Rödelsperger, C.; Sommer, R.: Life History Responses and Gene Expression Profiles of the Nematode Pristionchus pacificus Cultured on Cryptococcus Yeasts. PLoS One 11 (10), e0164881 (2016)

Lightfoot, J.; Wilecki, M.; Okumura, M.; Sommer, R.: Assaying predatory feeding behaviors in pristionchus and other nematodes. Journal of Visualized Experiments 2016 (115), 54404 (2016)

McGaughran, A.; Rödelsperger, C.; Grimm, D.; Meyer, J.; Moreno, E.; Morgan, K.; Leaver, M.; Serobyan, V.; Rakitsch, B.; Borgwardt, K. et al.; Sommer, R.: Genomic Profiles of Diversification and Genotype-Phenotype Association in Island Nematode Lineages. Molecular Biology and Evolution 33 (9), pp. 2257 - 2272 (2016)

Kieninger, M.; Ivers, N.; Rödelsperger, C.; Markov, G.; Sommer, R.; Ragsdale, E.: The Nuclear Hormone Receptor NHR-40 Acts Downstream of the Sulfatase EUD-1 as Part of a Developmental Plasticity Switch in Pristionchus. Current Biology 26 (16), pp. 2174 - 2179 (2016)

Leaver, M.; Kienle, S.; Begasse, M.; Sommer, R.; Hyman, A.: A locus in Pristionchus pacificus that is responsible for the ability to give rise to fertile offspring at higher temperatures. Biology Open 5 (8), pp. 1111 - 1117 (2016)

Serobyan, V.; Xiao, H.; Namdeo, S.; Rödelsperger, C.; Sieriebriennikov, B.; Witte, H.; Röseler, W.; Sommer, R.: Chromatin remodelling and antisense-mediated up-regulation of the developmental switch gene eud-1 control predatory feeding plasticity. Nature Communications 7, 12337 (2016)

Meyer, J.; Markov, G.; Baskaran, P.; Herrmann, M.; Sommer, R.; Rödelsperger, C.: Draft Genome of the Scarab Beetle Oryctes borbonicus on La Réunion Island. Genome Biology and Evolution 8 (7), pp. 2093 - 2105 (2016)

Weadick, C.; Sommer, R.: Mating System Transitions Drive Life Span Evolution in Pristionchus Nematodes. American Naturalist 187 (4), pp. 517 - 531 (2016)

Susoy, V.; Sommer, R.: Stochastic and Conditional Regulation of Nematode Mouth-Form Dimorphisms. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 4, 23 (2016)

Moreno, E.; McGaughran, A.; Rödelsperger, C.; Zimmer, M.; Sommer, R.: Oxygen-induced social behaviours in Pristionchus pacificus have a distinct evolutionary history and genetic regulation from Caenorhabditis elegans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 283 (1825), 20152263 (2016)

Susoy, V.; Herrmann, M.; Kanzaki, N.; Kruger, M.; Nguyen, C.; Rödelsperger, C.; Röseler, W.; Weiler, C.; Giblin-Davis, R.; Ragsdale, E. et al.; Sommer, R.: Large-scale diversification without genetic isolation in nematode symbionts of figs. Science Advances 2, e1501031 (2016)

Mayer, M.; Sommer, R.: Nematode orphan genes are adopted by conserved regulatory networks and find a home in ecology. Worm 4 (4), e1082029 (2015)

Mayer, M.; Rödelsperger, C.; Witte, H.; Riebesell, M.; Sommer, R.: The Orphan Gene dauerless Regulates Dauer Development and Intraspecific Competition in Nematodes by Copy Number Variation. PLoS Genetics 11 (6), e1005146 (2015)

Wilecki, M.; Lightfoot, J.; Susoy, V.; Sommer, R.: Predatory feeding behaviour in Pristionchus nematodes is dependent on phenotypic plasticity and induced by serotonin. The Journal of Experimental Biology 218 (9), pp. 1306 - 1313 (2015)

Herrmann, M.; Neuner, J.; Voetsch, M.; Wörner, J.; Kanzaki, N.; Sommer, R.: Pristionchus Scratchpads: an online platform for taxonomy, systematics and phylogeny. Zootaxa 3949 (4), pp. 597 - 600 (2015)

Yim, J.; Bose, N.; Meyer, J.; Sommer, R.; Schroeder, F.: Nematode signaling molecules derived from multimodular assembly of primary metabolic building blocks. Organic Letters 17 (7), pp. 1648 - 1651 (2015)