Publications of JW Lightfoot

Hiramatsu, F.; Lightfoot, J.: Kin-recognition and predation shape collective behaviors in the cannibalistic nematode Pristionchus pacificus. PLoS Genetics 19 (12), e1011056 (2023)

Dardiry, M.; Eberhardt, G.; Witte, H.; Rödelsperger, C.; Lightfoot, J.; Sommer, R.: Divergent combinations of cis-regulatory elements control the evolution of phenotypic plasticity. PLoS Biology 21 (8), e3002270 (2023)

Lo, W.-S.; Roca, M.; Dardiry, M.; Mackie, M.; Eberhardt, G.; Witte, H.; Hong, R.; Sommer, R.; Lightfoot, J.: Evolution and Diversity of TGF-β Pathways are Linked with Novel Developmental and Behavioral Traits. Molecular Biology and Evolution 39 (12), msac252 (2022)

Eren, G.; Roca, M.; Han, Z.; Lightfoot, J.: Genomic integration of transgenes using UV irradiation in Pristionchus pacificus. microPublication Biology 2022, 000576 (2022)

Lightfoot, J.; Dardiry, M.; Kalirad, A.; Giaimo, S.; Eberhardt, G.; Witte, H.; Wilecki, M.; Rödelsperger, C.; Traulsen, A.; Sommer, R.: Sex or cannibalism: Polyphenism and kin recognition control social action strategies in nematodes. Science Advances 7 (35), eabg8042 (2021)

Han, Z.; Lo, W.-S.; Lightfoot, J.; Witte, H.; Sun, S.; Sommer, R.: Improving transgenesis efficiency and CRISPR-associated tools through codon optimization and native intron addition in Pristionchus nematodes. Genetics 216 (4), pp. 947 - 956 (2020)

Akduman, N.; Lightfoot, J.; Röseler, W.; Witte, H.; Lo, W.-S.; Rödelsperger, C.; Sommer, R.: Correction: Bacterial vitamin B 12 production enhances nematode predatory behavior. The ISME Journal 14 (7), p. 1911 (2020)

Akduman, N.; Lightfoot, J.; Röseler, W.; Witte, H.; Lo, W.-S.; Rödelsperger, C.; Sommer, R.: Bacterial vitamin B-12 production enhances nematode predatory behavior. The ISME Journal 14 (6), pp. 1494 - 1507 (2020)

Sieriebriennikov, B.; Sun, S.; Lightfoot, J.; Witte, H.; Moreno, E.; Rödelsperger, C.; Sommer, R.: Conserved nuclear hormone receptors controlling a novel plastic trait target fast-evolving genes expressed in a single cell. PLoS Genetics 16 (4), e1008687 (2020)

Akduman, N.; Lightfoot, J.; Röseler, W.; Witte, H.; Lo, W.-S.; Rödelsperger, C.; Sommer, R.: Bacterial vitamin B12 production enhances nematode predatory behavior. The ISME Journal 14 (6), pp. 1494 - 1507 (2020)

Moreno, E.; Lightfoot, J.; Lenuzzi, M.; Sommer, R.: Cilia drive developmental plasticity and are essential for efficient prey detection in predatory nematodes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286 (1912), 20191089 (2019)

Lightfoot, J.; Wilecki, M.; Rödelsperger, C.; Moreno, E.; Susoy, V.; Witte, H.; Sommer, R.: Small peptide-mediated self-recognition prevents cannibalism in predatory nematodes. Science 364 (6435), pp. 86 - 89 (2019)

Moreno, E.; Sieriebriennikov, B.; Witte, H.; Rödelsperger, C.; Lightfoot, J.; Sommer, R.: Regulation of hyperoxia-induced social behaviour in Pristionchus pacificus nematodes requires a novel cilia-mediated environmental input. Scientific Reports 7, 17550 (2017)

Kulkarni, A.; Lightfoot, J.; Streit, A.: Germline organization in Strongyloides nematodes reveals alternative differentiation and regulation mechanisms. Chromosoma: Biology of the Nucleus 125 (4), pp. 725 - 745 (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)

Lightfoot, J.; Chauhan, V.; Aylott, J.; Rödelsperger, C.: Comparative transcriptomics of the nematode gut identifies global shifts in feeding mode and pathogen susceptibility. BMC Research Notes 9, 142 (2016)

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)

Sommer, R.; Lightfoot, J.: The Genus Pristionchus: a Model for Phenotypic Plasticity, Predatory Behavior, Self-Recognition, and Other Complex Traits. In: Nematodes as model organisms, 1, pp. 1 - 23 (Eds. Glazer, I.; Shapiro-Ilan, P.; Sterberg, D.). CAB International, Wallingford, UK (2022)

Sommer, R.; Lightfoot, J.: The evolution of predatory feeding and self-recognition in nematodes: from switch genes and a self-recognition peptide to neural circuits. In SMBE 2019, SMBE-OR-228, p. 153. Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Conference 2019 (SMBE 2019), Manchester, UK, July 21, 2019 - July 25, 2019. (2019)

Lightfoot, J.; Wilecki, M.; Rödelsperger, C.; Moreno, E.; Sommer, R.: Small peptide mediated self-recognition prevents cannibalism in predatory nematodes. In EMBO Workshop: C. Elegans Development, Cell Biology and Gene Expression, S6-02, p. 114. EMBO Workshop: C. Elegans Development, Cell Biology and Gene Expression, Barcelona, Spain, June 13, 2018 - June 17, 2018. (2018)