Publications
_{Integrative Evolutionary Biology}

Reich, S.; Loschko, T.; Jung, J.; Nestel, S.; Sommer, R.; Werner, M.: Developmental transcriptomics in Pristionchus reveals the environmental responsiveness of a plasticity gene-regulatory network. Genome Research Epub ahead (2025)

Vasconcelos Almeida, M.; Li, Z.; Rebelo-Guiomar, P.; Dallaire, A.; Fiedler, L.; Price, J.; Sluka, J.; Liu, X.; Butter, F.; Rödelsperger, C. et al.; Miska, E.: Transposable elements drive regulatory and functional innovation of F-box genes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 42 (5), msaf097 (2025)

Malekpour, S.; Kalirad, A.; Majidian, S.: Inferring the selective history of CNVs using a maximum likelihood model. Genome Biology and Evolution 17 (3), evaf050 (2025)

Piskobulu, V.; Athanasouli, M.; Witte, H.; Feldhaus, C.; Streit, A.; Sommer, R.: High nutritional conditions influence feeding plasticity in Pristionchus pacificus and render worms non-predatory. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 344 (2), pp. 94 - 111 (2025)

Quiobe, S.; Kalirad, A.; Röseler, W.; Witte, H.; Wang, Y.; Rödelsperger, C.; Sommer, R.: EBAX-1/ZSWIM8 destabilizes miRNAs, resulting in transgenerational inheritance of a predatory trait. Science Advances 11 (11), eadu0875 (2025)

Sommer, R.: Pristionchus - Beetle associations: Towards a new natural history. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 209, 108243 (2025)

Patel, H.; Bhardwaj, V.; Thackeray, T.; Campbell, P.; Mirza, Z.: Phylogeny and Systematics of Oligodon juglandifer (Wall, 1909) with Comments on the Taxonomic Status of Oligodon lipipengi Jiang, Wang, Li, Ding, Ding & Che in Che et al. 2020. Diversity 17 (3), 143 (2025)

Wang, Y.: Comparative single-cell transcriptomics reveals variable degrees of cell-type conservation between two distantly related nematodes. In Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology & Evolution (SMBE 2025). Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology & Evolution (SMBE 2025) , Beijing, China, July 20, 2025 - July 24, 2025. (2025)

Igreja, C.; Sharma, R.; Loschko, T.; Witte, H.; Maldung, J.; Franz-Wachtel, M.; Macek, B.; Sommer, R.: Formylglycine and an alternative maturation system regulate nematode sulfatases. In 25th International Worm Meeting (Worm25), 98. 25th International Worm Meeting (Worm25), Davis, CA, USA, June 28, 2025 - July 02, 2025. (2025)

Quiobe, S.; Sommer, R.: The unusual case of miRNAs in transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of the predatory mouth-form. In 25th International Worm Meeting (Worm25), 162. 25th International Worm Meeting (Worm25), Davis, CA, USA, June 28, 2025 - July 02, 2025. (2025)

Sommer, R.: Phenotypic plasticity, epigenetics and the inheritance of non-genetic information in a predatory nematode. In SMBE Satellite Meeting on Origin, Maintenance, and Evolution of Biological Noise. SMBE Satellite Meeting on Origin, Maintenance, and Evolution of Biological Noise , Tübingen, Germany, June 02, 2025 - June 05, 2025. (2025)

Kalirad, A.: The dynamics of coexistence and succession on a decaying beetle. In EMBO EMBL Symposium: Wild frontiers of model organisms. EMBO EMBL Symposium: Wild frontiers of model organisms , Heidelberg, Germany, April 08, 2025 - April 11, 2025. (2025)

Quiobe, S.; Sommer, R.: Phenotypic plasticity, epigenetics and the inheritance of non-genetic information. In Münster Evolution Meeting 2025, p. 108. Münster Evolution Meeting (MEM 2025), Münster, Germany, March 17, 2025 - March 20, 2025. (2025)

Streit, A.: To what extent is strongyloidiasis a zoonosis? In Joint Parasitology Spring Meeting, SP05.04. Joint Parasitology Spring Meeting (DGP 2025), Jena, Germany, March 10, 2025 - March 14, 2025. (2025)

Theam, P.: Mouth-form switch gene is a mutational hotspot in Pristionchus pacificus natural isolates. BioConnect Seminar: Max Planck Institute for Biology, Tübingen, Germany (2025)

Kalirad, A.: Ecological graph theory: A framework for simulating competition in communities and metacommunities. BioConnect Seminar: Max Planck Institute for Biology, Tübingen, Germany (2025)

Rödelsperger, C.: Origin, evolution, and function of orphan genes in Pristionchus nematodes. BioConnect Seminar: Max Planck Institute for Biology, Tübingen, Germany (2025)

Wang, Y.: Application of Single Cell RNA-seq in Pristionchus pacificus. BioConnect Seminar: Max Planck Institute for Biology, Tübingen, Germany (2025)

Sharma, D.: Developmental small RNA transcriptomics of Pristionchus pacificus reveals divergent evolution of conserved microRNAs in nematodes. Dissertation, Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen, Germany (2025)

Kalirad, A.; Theam, P.; Sommer, R.: The dynamics of coexistence and succession in a decaying ecosystem. (submitted)