Publications of RJ Sommer

Rae, R.; Schlager, B.; Sommer, R.: Isolation of pristionchus nematodes from beetles. Cold Spring Harbor protocols 3 (10), pdb.prot5063 (2008)

Rae, R.; Schlager, B.; Sommer, R.: Pristionchus pacificus: A Genetic Model System for the Study of Evolutionary Developmental Biology and the Evolution of Complex Life-History Traits. Cold Spring Harbor protocols 3 (10), pdb.emo102 (2008)

Rudel, D.; Tian, H.; Sommer, R.: Wnt signaling in Pristionchus pacificus gonadal arm extension and the evolution of organ shape. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105 (31), pp. 10826 - 10831 (2008)

Sommer, R.: Homology and the hierarchy of biological systems. Bioessays 30 (7), pp. 653 - 658 (2008)

Hong, R.; Svatoš, A.; Herrmann, M.; Sommer, R.: Species-specific recognition of beetle cues by the nematode Pristionchus maupasi. Evolution and Development 10 (3), pp. 261 - 391 (2008)

Hong, R.; Witte, H.; Sommer, R.: Natural variation in Pristionchus pacificus insect pheromone attraction involves the protein kinase EGL-4. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105 (22), pp. 7779 - 7784 (2008)

Dieterich, C.; Sommer, R.: A Caenorhabditis motif compendium for studying transcriptional gene regulation. BMC Genomics 9, 30 (2008)

Tian, H.; Schlager, B.; Xiao, H.; Sommer, R.: Wnt signaling induces vulva development in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus. Current Biology 18 (2), pp. 142 - 146 (2008)

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)

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)

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.; 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)

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