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Sommer, Ralf J

Department Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Max Planck Society, Department Integrative Evolutionary Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Max Planck Society, Department Integrative Evolutionary Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Max Planck Society  

 

Researcher Profile

 
Position: Department Integrative Evolutionary Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Max Planck Society
Position: Department Integrative Evolutionary Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Max Planck Society
Position: Department Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Max Planck Society
Additional IDs: MPIB: sora
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1503-7749
Researcher ID: https://pure.mpg.de/cone/persons/resource/persons271084

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Publications

 
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 : Sommer, R. (2025). Pristionchus - Beetle associations: Towards a new natural history. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 209: 108243. doi:10.1016/j.jip.2024.108243. [PubMan] : Piskobulu, V., Athanasouli, M., Witte, H., Feldhaus, C., Streit, A., & Sommer, R. (2025). 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), 94-111. doi:10.1002/jez.b.23284. [PubMan] : Almeida, A., Rocha, H., Raas, M., Witte, H., Sommer, R., Snel, B., Kops, G., Gassmann, R., & Maiato, H. (2024). An evolutionary perspective on the relationship between kinetochore size and CENP-E dependence for chromosome alignment. Journal of Cell Science, 137(24): jcs263466. doi:10.1242/jcs.263466. [PubMan] : Wighard, S., & Sommer, R. (2024). The Role of Epigenetic Switches in Polyphenism Control: Implications from a Nematode Model for the Developmental Regulation of Alternative Phenotypes. Biology, 13(11): 922. doi:10.3390/biology13110922. [PubMan] : Yoshida, K., Witte, H., Hatashima, R., Sun, S., Kikuchi, T., Röseler, W., & Sommer, R. (2024). Rapid chromosome evolution and acquisition of thermosensitive stochastic sex determination in nematode androdioecious hermaphrodites. Nature Communications, 15: 9649. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-53854-6. [PubMan] : Rödelsperger, C., Röseler, W., Athanasouli, M., Wighard, S., Herrmann, M., & Sommer, R. (2024). Genome Assembly of the Nematode Rhabditoides Inermis From a Complex Microbial Community. Genome Biology and Evolution, 16(11): evae230. doi:10.1093/gbe/evae230. [PubMan] : Herrmann, M., Kanzaki, N., Weiler, C., Theam, P., Rödelsperger, C., & Sommer, R. (2024). Description of two new Pristionchus species from South Korea. Journal of Nematology, 56(1): 20240032. doi:10.2478/jofnem-2024-0032. [PubMan] : Reich, S., Loschko, T., Jung, J., Nestel, S., Sommer, R., & Werner, M. (submitted). Developmental transcriptomics in Pristionchus reveals the logic of a plasticity gene regulatory network. [PubMan] : Röseler, W., Sommer, R., & Rödelsperger, C. (2024). Nematode genome announcement: A chromosome-scale genome assembly for the Pristionchus pacificus reference mapping strain PS1843. Journal of Nematology, 56(1): 20240063. doi:10.2478/jofnem-2024-0063. [PubMan] : Quiobe, S., Kalirad, A., Röseler, W., Witte, H., Wang, Y., Rödelsperger, C., & Sommer, R. (submitted). EBAX-1/ZSWIM8 destabilizes miRNAs resulting in transgenerational memory of a predatory trait. [PubMan] : Wighard, S., Witte, H., & Sommer, R. (submitted). Functional divergence of conserved developmental plasticity genes between two distantly related nematodes. [PubMan] : Sommer, R., Witte, H., & Röseler, W. (2024). Pristionchus pacificus: developmental plasticity of feeding structures and the many features of entomophilic nematodes. In Celebrating 100 Years of the 1st EPN Discovery (pp. 63). [PubMan] : Quiobe, S., Kalirad, A., Witte, H., Roeseler, W., Roedelsperger, C., & Sommer, R. (2024). Ubiquitin ligase EBAX-1/ZSWIM8 is required for transgenerational inheritance of a predatory morph by destabilizing clustered microRNAs in a developmentally plastic nematode. In 2024 European Worm Meeting. [PubMan] : Sharma, D., Röseler, W., Witte, H., Werner, M., & Sommer, R. (submitted). Developmental small RNA transcriptomics reveals divergent evolution of the conserved microRNA miR-100 and the let-7-complex in nematodes. [PubMan] : Cook, S., Kalinski, C., Loer, C., Memar, N., Majeed, M., Stephen, S., Bumbarger, D., Riebesell, M., Schnabel, R., Sommer, R., & Hobert, O. (submitted). Comparative connectomics of two distantly related nematode species reveals patterns of nervous system evolution. [PubMan] : Onodera, A., Zhang, A., Chihara, T., Sommer, R., & Okumura, M. (submitted). Glutamate, GABA, and dense-core vesicle secretion regulate predatory feeding in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus. [PubMan] : Lo, W.-S., Sommer, R., & Han, Z. (2024). Microbiota succession influences nematode physiology in a beetle microcosm ecosystem. Nature Communications, 15(1): 5137. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-49513-5. [PubMan] : Wighard, S., Witte, H., & Sommer, R. (2024). Conserved switch genes that arose via whole-genome duplication regulate a cannibalistic nematode morph. Science Advances, 10(15): eadk6062. doi:10.1126/sciadv.adk6062. [PubMan] : Theska, T., Renahan, T., & Sommer, R. (2024). Starvation resistance in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus requires a conserved supplementary nuclear receptor. Zoological Letters, 10(1): 7. doi:10.1186/s40851-024-00227-y. [PubMan] : Theska, T., & Sommer, R. (2024). Feeding-structure morphogenesis in rhabditid and diplogastrid nematodes is not controlled by a conserved genetic module. Evolution & Development, 26(2): e12471. doi:10.1111/ede.12471. [PubMan] : Kalirad, A., & Sommer, R. (2024). The role of plasticity and stochasticity in coexistence. Ecology Letters, 27(2): e14370. doi:10.1111/ele.14370. [PubMan] : Kalirad, A., & Sommer, R. (2024). Spatial and temporal heterogeneity alter the cost of plasticity in Pristionchus pacificus. PLOS Computational Biology, 20(1): e1011823. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011823. [PubMan] : Govind, S., Nischwitz, E., Hellmann, S., Almeida, M., Witte, H., Sarkies, P., Sommer, R., Butter, F., & Ketting, R. (2023). Functional characterization of GTSF-1 across clade V nematodes reveal conserved role in RNA-Dependent RNA polymerase activity. Poster presented at 4th International Pristonchus Meeting 2023, Tübingen, Germany. [PubMan] : Onodera, A., Zhang, A., Chihara, T., Sommer, R., & Okumura, M. (2023). Phenotypic analysis of feeding behaviors in neurotransmitter related mutants in Pristionchus pacificus. In 4th International Pristonchus Meeting (pp. 29). [PubMan] : Sharma, D., & Sommer, R. (2023). Developmental small RNA transcriptomics and the divergent evolution of let-7-complex locus in the nematodes Pristionchus pacificus and Caenorhabditis elegans. Poster presented at 4th International Pristonchus Meeting 2023, Tübingen, Germany. [PubMan]