Publications of R Sommer

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)

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)

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)

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)

Lo, W.-S.; Sommer, R.; Han, Z.: Microbiota succession influences nematode physiology in a beetle microcosm ecosystem. Nature Communications 15 (1), 5137 (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)

Theska, T.; Renahan, T.; Sommer, R.: Starvation resistance in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus requires a conserved supplementary nuclear receptor. Zoological Letters 10 (1), 7 (2024)

Theska, T.; Sommer, R.: Feeding-structure morphogenesis in rhabditid and diplogastrid nematodes is not controlled by a conserved genetic module. Evolution & Development 26 (2), e12471 (2024)

Kalirad, A.; Sommer, R.: The role of plasticity and stochasticity in coexistence. Ecology Letters 27 (2), e14370 (2024)

Kalirad, A.; Sommer, R.: Spatial and temporal heterogeneity alter the cost of plasticity in Pristionchus pacificus. PLOS Computational Biology 20 (1), e1011823 (2024)

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)

Werner, M.; Loschko, T.; King, T.; Reich, S.; Theska, T.; Franz-Wachtel, M.; Macek, B.; Sommer, R.: Author Correction: Histone 4 lysine 5/12 acetylation enables developmental plasticity of Pristionchus mouth form. Nature Communications 14 (1), 2837 (2023)

Werner, M.; Loschko, T.; King, T.; Reich, S.; Theska, T.; Franz-Wachtel, M.; Macek, B.; Sommer, R.: Histone 4 lysine 5/12 acetylation enables developmental plasticity of Pristionchus mouth form. Nature Communications 14 (1), 2095 (2023)

Lenuzzi, M.; Witte, H.; Riebesell, M.; Rödelsperger, C.; Hong, R.; Sommer, R.: Influence of environmental temperature on mouth-form plasticity in Pristionchus pacificus acts through daf-11-dependent cGMP signaling. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B-Molecular and Developmental Evolution 340 (2), pp. 214 - 224 (2023)

Yoshida, K.; Rödelsperger, C.; Roeseler, W.; Riebesell, M.; Sun, S.; Kikuchi, T.; Sommer, R.: Chromosome fusions repatterned recombination rate and facilitated reproductive isolation during Pristionchus nematode speciation. Nature Ecology & Evolution 7 (3), pp. 424 - 439 (2023)

Dardiry, M.; Piskobulu, V.; Kalirad, A.; Sommer, R.: Experimental and theoretical support for costs of plasticity and phenotype in a nematode cannibalistic trait. Evolution Letters 7 (1), pp. 48 - 57 (2023)