Publications of RJ Sommer

Mayer, M.; Rödelsperger, C.; Witte, H.; Riebesell, M.; Sommer, R.: The Orphan Gene dauerless Regulates Dauer Development and Intraspecific Competition in Nematodes by Copy Number Variation. PLoS Genetics 11 (6), e1005146 (2015)

Wilecki, M.; Lightfoot, J.; Susoy, V.; Sommer, R.: Predatory feeding behaviour in Pristionchus nematodes is dependent on phenotypic plasticity and induced by serotonin. The Journal of Experimental Biology 218 (9), pp. 1306 - 1313 (2015)

Herrmann, M.; Neuner, J.; Voetsch, M.; Wörner, J.; Kanzaki, N.; Sommer, R.: Pristionchus Scratchpads: an online platform for taxonomy, systematics and phylogeny. Zootaxa 3949 (4), pp. 597 - 600 (2015)

Yim, J.; Bose, N.; Meyer, J.; Sommer, R.; Schroeder, F.: Nematode signaling molecules derived from multimodular assembly of primary metabolic building blocks. Organic Letters 17 (7), pp. 1648 - 1651 (2015)

Susoy, V.; Ragsdale, E.; Kanzaki, N.; Sommer, R.: Rapid diversification associated with a macroevolutionary pulse of developmental plasticity. eLife 4, e05463 (2015)

Markov, G.; Baskaran, P.; Sommer, R.: The Same or Not the Same: Lineage-Specific Gene Expansions and Homology Relationships in Multigene Families in Nematodes. Journal of Molecular Evolution: the Journal of the International Society of Molecular Evolution 80 (1), pp. 18 - 36 (2015)

Sommer, R.; Mayer, M.: Toward a synthesis of developmental biology with evolutionary theory and ecology. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology 31, pp. 453 - 471 (2015)

Witte, H.; Moreno, E.; Rödelsperger, C.; Kim, J.; Kim, J.-S.; Streit, A.; Sommer, R.: Gene inactivation using the CRISPR/Cas9 system in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus. Development Genes and Evolution 225 (1), pp. 55 - 62 (2015)

Iatsenko, I.; Yim, J.; Schroeder, F.; Sommer, R.: B. subtilis GS67 protects C. elegans from Gram-positive pathogens via fengycin-mediated microbial antagonism. Current Biology 24 (22), pp. 2720 - 2727 (2014)

Cinkornpumin, J.; Wisidagama, D.; Rapoport, V.; Go, J.; Dieterich, C.; Wang, X.; Sommer, R.; Hong, R.: A host beetle pheromone regulates development and behavior in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus. eLife 3, e03229 (2014)

Serobyan, V.; Ragsdale, E.; Sommer, R.: Adaptive value of a predatory mouth-form in a dimorphic nematode. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281 (1791), 20141334 (2014)

Sinha, A.; Langnick, C.; Sommer, R.; Dieterich, C.: Genome-wide analysis of trans-splicing in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus unravels conserved gene functions for germline and dauer development in divergent operons. RNA: A Publication of the RNA Society 20 (9), pp. 1386 - 1397 (2014)

McGaughran, A.; Sommer, R.: Natural variation in cold tolerance in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus: the role of genotype and environment. Biology Open 3 (9), pp. 832 - 838 (2014)

Bose, N.; Meyer, J.; Yim, J.; Mayer, M.; Markov, G.; Ogawa, A.; Schroeder, F.; Sommer, R.: Natural variation in dauer pheromone production and sensing supports intraspecific competition in nematodes. Current Biology 24 (13), pp. 1536 - 1541 (2014)

Iatsenko, I.; Nikolov, A.; Sommer, R.: Identification of Distinct Bacillus thuringiensis 4A4 Nematicidal Factors Using the Model Nematodes Pristionchus pacificus and Caenorhabditis elegans. Toxins 6 (7), pp. 2050 - 2063 (2014)

Iatsenko, I.; Boichenko, I.; Sommer, R.: Bacillus thuringiensis DB27 produces two novel toxins, Cry21Fa1 and Cry21Ha1, which act synergistically against nematodes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 80 (10), pp. 3266 - 3275 (2014)

Morgan, K.; McGaughran, A.; Ganeshan, S.; Herrmann, M.; Sommer, R.: Landscape and oceanic barriers shape dispersal and population structure in the island nematode Pristionchus pacificus. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 112 (1), pp. 1 - 15 (2014)

Penkov, S.; Ogawa, A.; Schmidt, U.; Tate, D.; Zagoriy, V.; Boland, S.; Gruner, M.; Vorkel, D.; Verbavatz, J.-M.; Sommer, R. et al.; Knölker, H.-J.; Kurzchalia, T.: A wax ester promotes collective host finding in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus. Nature Chemical Biology 10 (4), pp. 281 - 285 (2014)

Rödelsperger, C.; Neher, R.; Weller, A.; Eberhardt, G.; Witte, H.; Mayer, W.; Dieterich, C.; Sommer, R.: Characterization of genetic diversity in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus from population-scale resequencing data. Genetics 196 (4), pp. 1153 - 1165 (2014)

Weller, A.; Rödelsperger, C.; Eberhardt, G.; Molnar, R.; Sommer, R.: Opposing forces of A/T-biased mutations and G/C-biased gene conversions shape the genome of the nematode Pristionchus pacificus. Genetics 196 (4), pp. 1145 - 1152 (2014)