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McGaughran, Angela

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

 

Researcher Profile

 
Position: Department Integrative Evolutionary Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Max Planck Society
Researcher ID: https://pure.mpg.de/cone/persons/resource/persons274102

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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]