Publications of RJ Sommer

Herrmann, M.; Mayer, W.; Sommer, R.: Nematodes of the genus Pristionchus are closely associated with scarab beetles and the Colorado potato beetle in Western Europe. Zoology 109 (2), pp. 96 - 108 (2006)

Photos, A.; Gutierrez, A.; Sommer, R.: sem-4/spalt and egl-17/FGF have a conserved role in sex myoblast specification and migration in P. pacificus and C. elegans. Developmental Biology 293 (1), pp. 142 - 153 (2006)

Hong, R.; Villwock, A.; Sommer, R.: Cultivation of the rhabditid Poikilolaimus oxycercus as a laboratory nematode for genetic analyses. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Comparative Experimental Biology 303 (9), pp. 742 - 760 (2005)

Zheng, M.; Messerschmidt, D.; Jungblut, B.; Sommer, R.: Conservation and diversification of Wnt signaling function during the evolution of nematode vulva development. Nature Genetics 37 (3), pp. 300 - 304 (2005)

Rudel, D.; Riebesell, M.; Sommer, R.: Gonadogenesis in Pristionchus pacificus and organ evolution: development, adult morphology and cell-cell interactions in the hermaphrodite gonad. Developmental Biology 277 (1), pp. 200 - 221 (2005)

Gutierrez, A.; Sommer, R.: Evolution of dnmt-2 and mbd-2-like genes in the free-living nematodes Pristionchus pacificus, Caenorhabditis elegans and Caenorhabditis briggsae. Nucleic Acids Research (London) 32 (21), pp. 6388 - 6396 (2004)

Kenning, C.; Kipping, I.; Sommer, R.: Isolation of mutations with dumpy-like phenotypes and of collagen genes in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus. Genesis 40 (3), pp. 176 - 183 (2004)

Pires-daSilva, A.; Sommer, R.: Conservation of the global sex determination gene tra-1 in distantly related nematodes. Genes and Development 18 (10), pp. 1198 - 1208 (2004)

Srinivasan, J.; Otto, G.; Kahlow, U.; Geisler, R.; Sommer, R.: AppaDB: an AcedB database for the nematode satellite organism Pristionchus pacificus. Nucleic Acids Research (London) 32 (Database issue), pp. D421 - D422 (2004)

Lee, K.-Z.; Sommer, R.: Operon structure and trans-splicing in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus. Molecular Biology and Evolution 20 (12), pp. 2098 - 2103 (2003)

Rudel, D.; Sommer, R.: The evolution of developmental mechanisms. Developmental Biology 264 (1), pp. 15 - 37 (2003)

Srinivasan, J.; Sinz, W.; Jesse, T.; Wiggers-Perebolte, L.; Buntjer, J.; van der Meulen, M.; Sommer, R.: An integrated physical and genetic map of the nematode Pristionchus pacificus. Molecular Genetics and Genomics 269 (5), pp. 715 - 722 (2003)

Pires-daSilva, A.; Sommer, R.: Finally, worm polycomb-like genes meet Hox regulation. Developmental Cell 4 (6), pp. 770 - 772 (2003)

Lee, K.-Z.; Eizinger, A.; Nandakumar, R.; Schuster, S.; Sommer, R.: Limited microsynteny between the genomes of Pristionchus pacificus and Caenorhabditis elegans. Nucleic Acids Research (London) 31 (10), pp. 2553 - 2560 (2003)

Gutierrez, A.; Knoch, L.; Witte, H.; Sommer, R.: Functional specificity of the nematode Hox gene mab-5. Development 130 (5), pp. 983 - 993 (2003)

Pires-daSilva, A.; Sommer, R.: The evolution of signalling pathways in animal development. Nature Reviews Genetics 4 (1), pp. 39 - 49 (2003)

Srinivasan, J.; Sinz, W.; Lanz, C.; Brand, A.; Nandakumar, R.; Raddatz, G.; Witte, H.; Keller, H.; Kipping, I.; Pires-daSilva, A. et al.; Jesse, T.; Millare, J.; de Both, M.; Schuster, S.; Sommer, R.: A bacterial artificial chromosome-based genetic linkage map of the nematode Pristionchus pacificus. Genetics 162 (1), pp. 129 - 134 (2002)

Sommer, R.: As good as they get: cells in nematode vulva development and evolution. Current Opinion in Cell Biology 13 (6), pp. 715 - 720 (2001)

Sinz, W.; Srinivasan, J.; Brand, A.; Witte, H.; Kipping, I.; Sommer, R.: Towards a Pristionchus genome map IV: A genetic linkage map of Pristionchus pacificus. The Worm Breeder’s Gazette 17 (1), p. 51 (2001)

Sommer, R.; Jesse, T.; Schuster, S.; Raddatz, G.; Keller, H.; Lanz, C.: Towards a Pristionchus genome map I: P. pacificus BAC Library construction and end sequencing of BAC clones. The Worm Breeder’s Gazette 17 (1), p. 48 (2001)