Publications
_{Integrative Evolutionary Biology}

Hong, R.; Sommer, R.: Chemoattraction in Pristionchus nematodes and implications for insect recognition. Current Biology 16 (23), pp. 2359 - 2365 (2006)

Meinhardt, H.: Primary body axes of vertebrates: generation of a near-Cartesian coordinate system and the role of Spemann-type organizer. Developmental Dynamics 235 (11), pp. 2907 - 2919 (2006)

Herrmann, M.; Mayer, W.; Sommer, R.: Sex, bugs and Haldane's rule: the nematode genus Pristionchus in the United States. Frontiers in Zoology 3, 14 (2006)

Schlager, B.; Röseler, W.; Zheng, M.; Gutierrez, A.; Sommer, R.: HAIRY-like transcription factors and the evolution of the nematode vulva equivalence group. Current Biology 16 (14), pp. 1386 - 1394 (2006)

Sommer, R.: New inroads to development. Development 133 (13), pp. 2451 - 2453 (2006)

Hong, R.; Sommer, R.: Pristionchus pacificus: a well-rounded nematode. Bioessays 28 (6), pp. 651 - 659 (2006)

Schnabel, R.; Bischoff, M.; Hintze, A.; Schulz, A.-K.; Hejnol, A.; Meinhardt, H.; Hutter, H.: Global cell sorting in the C. elegans embryo defines a new mechanism for pattern formation. Developmental Biology 294 (2), pp. 418 - 431 (2006)

Fiegna, F.; Yu, Y.-T.; Kadam, S.; Velicer, G.: Evolution of an obligate social cheater to a superior cooperator. Nature 441 (7091), pp. 310 - 314 (2006)

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)

Velicer, G.; Raddatz, G.; Keller, H.; Deiss, S.; Lanz, C.; Dinkelacker, I.; Schuster, S.: Comprehensive mutation identification in an evolved bacterial cooperator and its cheating ancestor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103 (21), pp. 8107 - 8112 (2006)

Vos, M.; Velicer, G.: Genetic population structure of the soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus at the centimeter scale. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 72 (5), pp. 3615 - 3625 (2006)

Meinhardt, H.: From observations to paradigms; the importance of theories and models: An interview with Hans Meinhardt by Richard Gordon and Lev Beloussov. International Journal of Developmental Biology 50 (2-3), pp. 103 - 111 (2006)

Dieterich, C.; Roeseler, W.; Srinivasan, J.: Pristionchus pacificus genomics: from genetics to genome sequence. In: WormBook: The Online Review of C. elegans Biology. Columbia University, New York, NY, USA (2006)

Sommer, R.: Pristionchus pacificus. In: WormBook: The Online Review of C. elegans Biology. Columbia University, New York, NY, USA (2006)

Herrmann, M.: Scarab Beetles and their Nematodes: Escarabayos y sus Nematodes. In VII Reunión Latinoamericana de Scarabaeoidología, pp. 9 - 10. VII Reunión Latinoamericana de Scarabaeoidología, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, November 13, 2006 - November 16, 2006. (2006)

Meinhardt, H.: Musterbildung in lebendiger Entwicklung. In Münchner Wissenschaftstage 2006. Münchner Wissenschaftstage 2006, München, Germany, October 21, 2006 - October 24, 2006. (2006)

Hong, R.; Sommer, R.: Sense in Sensitivity: The Evolution of Chemosensory Behavior in Entomonecromenic Nematodes Pristionchus. In Evolution 2006. Evolution 2006: American Society of Naturalists, Society for the Study of Evolution, Society of Systematic Biologists, Stony Brook, NY, USA, June 23, 2006 - June 27, 2006. (2006)

Rudel, D.; Sommer, R.: Changes in Gonad Arm Extension and the Evolution of Gonad Morphology in Nematodes. In European Worm Meeting 2006, T-076, p. 85. European Worm Meeting 2006 (EWM 2006), Hersonissos, Greece, March 29, 2006 - April 03, 2006. (2006)

Schlager, B.; Sommer, R.: An Ancestral Module Patterns a Derived Nematode Vulva Equivalence Group. In European Worm Meeting 2006, T-070, p. 79. European Worm Meeting 2006 (EWM 2006), Hersonissos, Greece, March 29, 2006 - April 03, 2006. (2006)