Publications
^{_{Integrative Evolutionary Biology}}

Rae, R.; Verdun, C.; Grewal, P.; Robertson, J.; Wilson, M.: Biological control of terrestrial molluscs using Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita: progress and prospects. Pest Management Science 63 (12), pp. 1153 - 1164 (2007)

Kiontke, K.; Barrière, A.; Kolotuev, I.; Podbilewicz, B.; Sommer, R.; Fitch, D.; Félix, M.-A.: Trends, stasis, and drift in the evolution of nematode vulva development. Current Biology 17 (22), pp. 1925 - 1937 (2007)

Torday, J.; Rehan, V.; Hicks, J.; Wang, T.; Maina, J.; Weibel, E.; Hsia, C.; Sommer, R.; Perry, S.: Deconvoluting lung evolution: from phenotypes to gene regulatory networks. Integrative and Comparative Biology 47 (4), pp. 601 - 609 (2007)

Herrmann, M.; Mayer, W.; Hong, R.; Kienle, S.; Minasaki, R.; Sommer, R.: The nematode Pristionchus pacificus (Nematoda: Diplogastridae) is associated with the oriental beetle Exomala orientalis (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in Japan. Zoological Science 24 (9), pp. 883 - 889 (2007)

Yi, B.; Sommer, R.: The pax-3 gene is involved in vulva formation in Pristionchus pacificus and is a target of the Hox gene lin-39. Development 134 (17), pp. 3111 - 3119 (2007)

Gutierrez, A.; Sommer, R.: Functional diversification of the nematode mbd2/3 gene between Pristionchus pacificus and Caenorhabditis elegans. BMC Genetics 8, 57 (2007)

Meinhardt, H.: Computational modelling of epithelial patterning. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 17 (4), pp. 272 - 280 (2007)

Eberhardt, A.; Mayer, W.; Streit, A.: The free-living generation of the nematode Strongyloides papillosus undergoes sexual reproduction. International Journal for Parasitology 37 (8-9), pp. 989 - 1000 (2007)

Mayer, W.; Herrmann, M.; Sommer, R.: Phylogeny of the nematode genus Pristionchus and implications for biodiversity, biogeography and the evolution of hermaphroditism. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7, 104 (2007)

Zauner, H.; Sommer, R.: Evolution of robustness in the signaling network of Pristionchus vulva development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104 (24), pp. 10086 - 10091 (2007)

Minasaki, R.; Streit, A.: MEL-47, a novel protein required for early cell divisions in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Molecular Genetics and Genomics 277 (3), pp. 315 - 328 (2007)

Zauner, H.; Mayer, W.; Herrmann, M.; Weller, A.; Erwig, M.; Sommer, R.: Distinct patterns of genetic variation in Pristionchus pacificus and Caenorhabditis elegans, two partially selfing nematodes with cosmopolitan distribution. Molecular Ecology 16 (6), pp. 1267 - 1280 (2007)

Rätsch, G.; Sonnenburg, S.; Srinivasan , J.; Witte, H.; Müller, K.-R.; Sommer, R.; Schölkopf, B.: Improving the Caenorhabditis elegans Genome Annotation Using Machine Learning. PLoS Computational Biology 3 (2 ), e20, pp. 0313 - 0322 (2007)

Dieterich, C.; Franz, M.; Vingron, M.: Developments in CORG: a gene-centric comparative genomics resource. Nucleic Acids Research (London) 35 (Database issue), pp. D32 - D35 (2007)

Dieterich, C.; Roeseler, W.; Sobetzko, P.; Sommer, R.: Pristionchus.org: a genome-centric database of the nematode satellite species Pristionchus pacificus. Nucleic Acids Research (London) 35 (Database issue), pp. D498 - D502 (2007)

Herrmann, M.; Mayer, W.; Sommer, R.: The nematode genus Pristionchus: a model for cryptic speciation, Haldane´s rule and species invasion. In 9. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik (GfBS 2007), p. 31. 9. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik (GfBS 2007), Wien, Austria, February 20, 2007 - February 23, 2007. (2007)

Bento, G.; Sommer, R.: Phenotypic Plasticity in the Mouth Forms of Pristionchus Nematodes. 11th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB 2007), Uppsala, Sweden (2007)

Eberhardt, A.; Nemetschke, L.; Mayer, W.; Streit, A.: Sex Chromosomes and Reproduction in the Free-Living Generation of the Parasitic Nematodes Strongyloides Papillosus. 11th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB 2007), Uppsala, Sweden (2007)

Schlager, B.; Sommer, R.: The evolution of the vulva equivalence group. First Pan American Congress in Developmental Biology: SDB 66th Annual Meeting, SMBD 8th Annual Meeting, LASDB 3rd International Meeting, Cancún, México (2007)

Zauner, H.: Natural variation and evolvability of redundant cell-cell interactions in Pristionchus vulva development. Dissertation, Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen,Germany (2007)