Publications
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Kulkarni, A.; Dyka, A.; Nemetschke, L.; Grant, W.; Streit, A.: Parastrongyloides trichosuri suggests that XX/XO sex determination is ancestral in Strongyloididae (Nematoda). Parasitology 140 (14), pp. 1822 - 1830 (2013)

McGaughran, A.; Morgan, K.; Sommer, R.: Natural variation in chemosensation: lessons from an island nematode. Ecology and Evolution 3 (16), pp. 5209 - 5224 (2013)

Ragsdale, E.; Müller, M.; Rödelsperger, C.; Sommer, R.: A developmental switch coupled to the evolution of plasticity acts through a sulfatase. Cell 155 (4), pp. 922 - 933 (2013)

Iatsenko, I.; Sinha, A.; Rödelsperger, C.; Sommer, R.: New Role for DCR-1/Dicer in Caenorhabditis elegans Innate Immunity against the Highly Virulent Bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis DB27. Infection and Immunity 81 (10), pp. 3942 - 3957 (2013)

Rödelsperger, C.; Streit, A.: Komplexität im Kleinen: Nematoden-Genome im Vergleich. Biospektrum 19 (6), pp. 606 - 610 (2013)

Eisenbarth, A.; Ekale, E.; Hildebrandt, J.; Achukwi, M.; Streit, A.; Renz, A.: Molecular evidence of "Siisa form", a new genotype related to Onchocerca ochengi in cattle from North Cameroon. Acta Tropica 127 (3), pp. 261 - 265 (2013)

Kanzaki, N.; Ragsdale, E.; Herrmann, M.; Susoy, V.; Sommer, R.: Two androdioecious and one dioecious new species of pristionchus (nematoda: diplogastridae): new reference points for the evolution of reproductive mode. Journal of Nematology 45 (3), pp. 172 - 194 (2013)

Audin, M.; Dorn, G.; Fromm, S.; Reiss, K.; Schütz, S.; Vorländer, M.; Sprangers, R.: The archaeal exosome: identification and quantification of site-specific motions that correlate with cap and RNA binding. Angewandte Chemie, International Edition in English 52 (32), pp. 8312 - 8316 (2013)

Kanzaki, N.; Ragsdale, E.; Herrmann, M.; Röseler, W.; Sommer, R.: Two new species of Pristionchus (Nematoda: Diplogastridae) support the biogeographic importance of Japan for the evolution of the genus Pristionchus and the model system P. pacificus. Zoological Science 30 (8), pp. 680 - 692 (2013)

Ragsdale, E.; Kanzaki, N.; Röseler, W.; Herrmann, M.; Sommer, R.: Three new species of Pristionchus (Nematoda: Diplogastridae) show morphological divergence through evolutionary intermediates of a novel feeding-structure polymorphism. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 168 (4), pp. 671 - 698 (2013)

Serobyan, V.; Ragsdale, E.; Müller, M.; Sommer, R.: Feeding plasticity in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus is influenced by sex and social context and is linked to developmental speed. Evolution and Development 15 (3), pp. 161 - 170 (2013)

Sommer, R.; McGaughran, A.: The nematode Pristionchus pacificus as a model system for integrative studies in evolutionary biology. Molecular Ecology 22 (9), pp. 2380 - 2393 (2013)

Kienle, S.; Sommer, R.: Cryptic variability in vulva development by cis-regulatory evolution of a HAIRY binding site. Nature Communications 4, 1714 (2013)

Kienle, S.; Sommer, R.: Cryptic variation in vulva development by cis-regulatory evolution of a HAIRY-binding site. Nature Communications 4, 1714 (2013)

Kanzaki, N.; Ragsdale, E.; Herrmann, M.; Röseler, W.; Sommer, R.: Pristionchus bucculentus n. sp. (Rhabditida: Diplogastridae) Isolated from a Shining Mushroom Beetle (Coleoptera: Scaphidiidae) in Hokkaido, Japan. Journal of Nematology 45 (1), pp. 78 - 86 (2013)

McGaughran, A.; Morgan, K.; Sommer, R.: Unraveling the evolutionary history of the nematode Pristionchus pacificus: from lineage diversification to island colonization. Ecology and Evolution 3 (3), pp. 667 - 675 (2013)

Bumbarger, D.; Riebesell, M.; Rödelsperger, C.; Sommer, R.: System-wide rewiring underlies behavioral differences in predatory and bacterial-feeding nematodes. Cell 152 (1-2), pp. 109 - 119 (2013)

Herrmann, M.; Ragsdale, E.; Kanzaki, N.; Sommer, R.: Sudhausia aristotokia n. gen., n. sp. and S. crassa n. gen., n. sp. (Nematoda: Diplogastridae): viviparous new species with precocious gonad development. Nematology 15, pp. 1001 - 1020 (2013)

Susoy, V.; Kanzaki, N.; Herrmann, M.: Description of the bark beetle associated nematodes Micoletzkya masseyi n. sp. and M. japonica n. sp. (Nematoda: Diplogastridae). Nematology 15 (2), pp. 213 - 231 (2013)

Rödelsperger, C.; Streit, A.; Sommer, R.: Structure, Function and Evolution of The Nematode Genome. In: eLS: Encyclopedia of life sciences. Wiley, Hoboken, NL, USA (2013)