Publications of RJ Sommer

Jungblut, B.; Sommer, R.: The Pristionchus pacificus mab-5 gene is involved in the regulation of ventral epidermal cell fates. Current Biology 8 (13), pp. 775 - 778 (1998)

Eizinger, A.; Sommer, R.: The homeotic gene lin-39 and the evolution of nematode epidermal cell fates. Science 278 (5337), pp. 452 - 455 (1997)

Schlak, I.; Eizinger, A.; Sommer, R.: High rate of restriction fragment length polymorphisms between two population of the nematode Pristionchus pacificus (Diplogastridae). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 35 (3), pp. 137 - 142 (1997)

Sommer, R.: Evolution and development: the nematode vulva as a case study. Bioessays 19 (3), pp. 225 - 231 (1997)

Sommer, R.: Evolutionary changes of developmental mechanisms in the absence of cell lineage alterations during vulva formation in the Diplogastridae (Nematoda). Development 124 (1), pp. 243 - 251 (1997)

Eizinger, A.; Lee, K.-Z.; Weise, C.; Schlak, I.; Sommer, R.: Vulva-Defective Mutants from Pristonchus Pacificus. Worm Breeder's Gazette 14 (4), p. 42 (1996)

Sommer, R.; Sternberg, P.: Evolution of nematode vulval fate patterning. Developmental Biology 173 (2), pp. 396 - 407 (1996)

Wolff, C.; Sommer, R.; Schröder , R.; Glaser, D.; Tautz, D.: Conserved and divergent expression aspects of the Drosophila segmentation gene hunchback in the short germ band embryo of the flour beetle Tribolium. Development 121 (12), pp. 4227 - 4236 (1995)

Tautz, D.; Sommer, R.: Evolution of segmentation genes in insects. Trends in Genetics 11 (1), pp. 23 - 27 (1995)

Sommer, R.; Carta, L.; Sternberg, P.: The evolution of cell lineage in nematodes. Development Supplement 1994, pp. 85 - 95 (1994)

Sommer, R.; Tautz, D.: Expression patterns of twist and snail in Tribolium (Coleoptera) suggest a homologous formation of mesoderm in long and short germ band insects. Developmental Genetics 15 (1), pp. 32 - 37 (1994)

Sommer, R.; Tautz, D.: Involvement of an orthologue of the Drosophila pair-rule gene hairy in segment formation of the short germ-band embryo of Tribolium (Coleoptera). Nature 361 (6411), pp. 448 - 450 (1993)

Sommer, R.; Retzlaff, M.; Goerlich, K.; Sander, K.; Tautz, D.: Evolutionary conservation pattern of zinc-finger domains of Drosophila segmentation genes. PNAS 89 (22), pp. 10782 - 10786 (1992)

Sommer, R.; Tautz, D.: Segmentation gene expression in the housefly Musca domestica. Development 113 (2), pp. 419 - 430 (1991)

Sommer, R.; Tautz, D.: Asynchronous mitotic domains during blastoderm formation inMusca domestica L. (Diptera). Rouxs Archives of Developmental Biology 199 (6), pp. 373 - 376 (1991)

Sommer, R.; Tautz, D.: Nonradioactive in situ hybridization to sectioned tissues. Trends in Genetics 7 (4), p. 110 (1991)

Sommer, R.; Tautz, D.: Minimal homology requirements for PCR primers. Nucleic Acids Research 17 (16), p. 6749 (1989)

Kanzaki, N.; Herrmann, M.; Weiler, C.; Röseler, W.; Theska, T.; Berger, J.; Rödelsperger, C.; Sommer, R.: Nine new Pristionchus (Nematoda: Diplogastridae) species from China. Magnolia Press, Auckland, New Zealand (2021), 66 pp.

Sommer, R. (Ed.): Pristionchus pacificus: a nematode model for comparative and evolutionary biology. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands (2015), 420 pp.

Lo, W.-S.; Sommer, R.: Vitamin B12 and predatory behavior in nematodes. In: Vitamins and Hormones, Vol. 119 (2022)