Publications of RJ Sommer

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)

Sun, S.; Witte, H.; Sommer, R.: Chitin contributes to the formation of a feeding structure in a predatory nematode. Current Biology 33 (1), pp. 15 - 27 (2023)

Igreja, C.; Loschko, T.; Schäfer, A.; Sharma, R.; Quiobe, S.; Aloshy, E.; Witte, H.; Sommer, R.: Application of ALFA-Tagging in the Nematode Model Organisms Caenorhabditis elegans and Pristionchus pacificus. Cells 11 (23), 3875 (2022)

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)

Wighard, S.; Athanasouli, M.; Witte, H.; Rödelsperger, C.; Sommer, R.: A New Hope: A hermaphroditic nematode enables analysis of a recent whole genome duplication event. Genome Biology and Evolution 14 (12), evac169 (2022)

Röseler, W.; Collenberg, M.; Yoshida, K.; Lanz, C.; Sommer, R.; Rödelsperger, C.: The improved genome of the nematode Parapristionchus giblindavisi provides insights into lineage-specific gene family evolution. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 12 (10), jkac215 (2022)

Leaver, M.; Moreno, E.; Kayhan, M.; McGaughran, A.; Rödelsperger, C.; Sommer, R.; Hyman, A.: Adaptation to environmental temperature in divergent clades of the nematode Pristionchus pacificus. Evolution: international journal of organic evolution 76 (8), pp. 1660 - 1673 (2022)

Renahan, T.; Sommer, R.: Multidimensional competition of nematodes affects plastic traits in a beetle ecosystem. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 10, 985831 (2022)

Lo, W.-S.; Han, Z.; Witte, H.; Röseler, W.; Sommer, R.: Synergistic interaction of gut microbiota enhances the growth of nematode through neuroendocrine signaling. Current Biology 32 (9), pp. 2037 - 2050 (2022)

Sun, S.; Theska, T.; Witte, H.; Ragsdale, E.; Sommer, R.: The oscillating Mucin-type protein DPY-6 has a conserved role in nematode mouth and cuticle formation. Genetics 220 (3), iyab233 (2022)

Han, Z.; Sieriebriennikov, B.; Susoy, V.; Lo, W.-S.; Igreja, C.; Dong, C.; Berasategui, A.; Witte, H.; Sommer, R.: Horizontally Acquired Cellulases Assist the Expansion of Dietary Range in Pristionchus Nematodes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 39 (2), msab370 (2022)

Igreja, C.; Sommer, R.: The Role of Sulfation in Nematode Development and Phenotypic Plasticity. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences 9, 838148 (2022)

Kalirad, A.; Sommer, R.: The art of mechanistic modeling in biology. Nature Computational Science 2, pp. 72 - 73 (2022)

Renahan, T.; Sommer, R.: Nematode Interactions on Beetle Hosts Indicate a Role of Mouth-Form Plasticity in Resource Competition. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9, 752695 (2021)

Renahan, T.; Lo, W.-S.; Werner, M.; Rochat, J.; Herrmann, M.; Sommer, R.: Nematode biphasic "boom and bust" dynamics are dependent on host bacterial load while linking dauer and mouth-form polyphenisms. Environmental Microbiology 23 (9), pp. 5102 - 5113 (2021)

Sun, S.; Rödelsperger, C.; Sommer, R.: Single worm transcriptomics identifies a developmental core network of oscillating genes with deep conservation across nematodes. Genome Research 31 (9), pp. 1590 - 1601 (2021)

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)

Rödelsperger, C.; Ebbing, A.; Sharma, D.; Okumura, M.; Sommer, R.; Korswagen, H.: Spatial Transcriptomics of Nematodes Identifies Sperm Cells as a Source of Genomic Novelty and Rapid Evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution 38 (1), pp. 229 - 243 (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)

Athanasouli, M.; Witte, H.; Weiler, C.; Loschko, T.; Eberhardt, G.; Sommer, R.; Rödelsperger, C.: Comparative genomics and community curation further improve gene annotations in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus. BMC Genomics 21 (1), 708 (2020)