Publications
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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)

Velicer, G.; Stredwick, K.: Experimental social evolution with Myxococcus xanthus. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 81 (1-4), pp. 155 - 164 (2002)

Meinhardt, H.; Roth, S.: Sharp peaks from shallow sources. Nature 419 (6904), pp. 261 - 262 (2002)

Niehrs, C.; Meinhardt, H.: Modular feedback. Nature 417 (6884), pp. 35 - 36 (2002)

Velicer, G.; Lenski, R.; Kroos, L.: Rescue of social motility lost during evolution of Myxococcus xanthus in an asocial environment. Journal of Bacteriology 184 (10), pp. 2719 - 2727 (2002)

Meinhardt, H.: The radial-symmetric hydra and the evolution of the bilateral body plan: an old body became a young brain. Bioessays 24 (2), pp. 185 - 191 (2002)

Sommer, R.: C. elegans. In: Encyclopedia of Evolution, pp. 127 - 129 (Ed. Pagel, M.). Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK (2002)

Srinivasan, J.; Sommer, R.: From evolutionary developmental biology to genomics: towards a genome map of the free-living nematode Pristionchus pacificus. In: Genome Science, Towards a New Paradigm, pp. 101 - 110 (Eds. Yoshikawa, H.; Ogasawara, N.; Satoh, N.). Uehara Memorial Foundation Symposium on Genome Science: Towards a New Paradigm, Tokyo, Japan, June 03, 2002 - June 05, 2002. Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2002)

Srinivasan, J.; Sommer, R.: Mapping and cloning of generation vulvaless mutants of Pristionchus pacificus. In 2002 West Coast Worm Meeting, 159, p. 176. 2002 West Coast Worm Meeting (WCWM 2002), San Diego, CA, USA, August 10, 2002 - August 13, 2002. (2002)

Sommer, R.: Evolution of vulva development in nematodes: from genetics and genomics to gene function. In Developmental Biology, 247 (2), 374, p. 520. 61st Annual Meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology (SDB 2002), Madison, WI, USA, July 21, 2002 - July 25, 2002. Academic Press, San Diego [etc.] (2002)

Pires da Silva, A.; Sommer, R.: Evolution of sex determination mechanisms in nematodes. In 2002 Midwest Worm Meeting, 458071, p. 55. 2002 Midwest Worm Meeting (MWWM 2002), St. Louis, MO, USA, June 28, 2002 - June 30, 2002. (2002)

Gutierrez, A.; Sommer, R.: Ray formation and the evolution of nematode Hox proteins. In European C. elegans Meeting 2002, 43, p. 55. European C. elegans Meeting 2002 (EWM 2002), Paestum, Italy, May 18, 2002 - May 22, 2002. (2002)

Kenning, C.; Kipping, I.; Brand, A.; Sinz, W.; Witte, H.; Sommer, R.: A large scale screen for dpy mutants in Pristionchus pacificus. Eastcoast Worm Meeting 2002 (ECWM 2002), Durham, NH, USA (2002)

Lee, K.-Z.; Sommer, R.: Programmed cell death in Pristionchus pacificus. Eastcoast Worm Meeting 2002 (ECWM 2002), Durham, NH, USA (2002)

Kumarasamy, R.; Sommer, R.: Dna polymorphism in Pristionchus pacificus. European C. elegans Meeting 2002 (EWM 2002), Paestum, Italy (2002)

Xiao, H.; Pires da Silva, A.; Sommer, R.: Four Classes of Vulvaless Mutants in Pristionchus pacificus. European C. elegans Meeting 2002 (EWM 2002), Paestum, Italy (2002)

Zheng, M.; Sommer, R.: Genetic and molecular analysis of the vulval patterning mutants ped-7 and ped-17 in Pristionchus pacificus. European C. elegans Meeting 2002 (EWM 2002), Paestum, Italy (2002)