Ralf J Sommer

ORCID

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2017-2024
Publications (10 Years): 58

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PLoS computational biology

Nature communications

Nature ecology & evolution

Cells

Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie

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Affiliation History

Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie Apr 01 1999

Germany

Professor :: Dept for Evolutionary Biology

Publications

Ata Kalirad, Ralf J Sommer
Spatial and temporal heterogeneity alter the cost of plasticity in Pristionchus pacificus. PLoS computational biology 20 (1) (2024)
Ata Kalirad, Ralf J Sommer
Spatial and temporal heterogeneity alter the cost of plasticity in Pristionchus pacificus. PLoS computational biology 20 (1) (2024)
Tobias Theska, Tess Renahan, Ralf J Sommer
Starvation resistance in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus requires a conserved supplementary nuclear receptor. Zoological letters 10 (1) (2024)
Sara S Wighard, Hanh Witte, Ralf J Sommer
Conserved switch genes that arose via whole-genome duplication regulate a cannibalistic nematode morph. Science advances 10 (15) (2024)
Sara S Wighard, Hanh Witte, Ralf J Sommer
Conserved switch genes that arose via whole-genome duplication regulate a cannibalistic nematode morph. Science advances 10 (15) (2024)
Ata Kalirad, Ralf J Sommer
Spatial and temporal heterogeneity alter the cost of plasticity in Pristionchus pacificus. PLoS computational biology 20 (1) (2024)
Ata Kalirad, Ralf J Sommer
Spatial and temporal heterogeneity alter the cost of plasticity in Pristionchus pacificus. PLoS computational biology 20 (1) (2024)
Tobias Theska, Ralf J Sommer
Feeding-structure morphogenesis in "rhabditid" and diplogastrid nematodes is not controlled by a conserved genetic module. Evolution & development 26 (2) (2024)
Sara S Wighard, Hanh Witte, Ralf J Sommer
Conserved switch genes that arose via whole-genome duplication regulate a cannibalistic nematode morph. Science advances 10 (15) (2024)
Wen-Sui Lo, Ralf J Sommer, Ziduan Han
Microbiota succession influences nematode physiology in a beetle microcosm ecosystem. Nature communications 15 (1) (2024)
Tobias Theska, Tess Renahan, Ralf J Sommer
Starvation resistance in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus requires a conserved supplementary nuclear receptor. Zoological letters 10 (1) (2024)
Tobias Theska, Tess Renahan, Ralf J Sommer
Starvation resistance in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus requires a conserved supplementary nuclear receptor. Zoological letters 10 (1) (2024)
Ata Kalirad, Ralf J Sommer
The role of plasticity and stochasticity in coexistence. Ecology letters 27 (2) (2024)
Wen-Sui Lo, Ralf J Sommer, Ziduan Han
Microbiota succession influences nematode physiology in a beetle microcosm ecosystem. Nature communications 15 (1) (2024)
Ata Kalirad, Ralf J Sommer
Spatial and temporal heterogeneity alter the cost of plasticity in Pristionchus pacificus. PLoS computational biology 20 (1) (2024)
Tobias Theska, Ralf J Sommer
Feeding-structure morphogenesis in "rhabditid" and diplogastrid nematodes is not controlled by a conserved genetic module. Evolution & development (2024)
Tobias Theska, Ralf J Sommer
Feeding-structure morphogenesis in "rhabditid" and diplogastrid nematodes is not controlled by a conserved genetic module. Evolution & development 26 (2) (2024)
Ata Kalirad, Ralf J Sommer
Spatial and temporal heterogeneity alter the cost of plasticity in Pristionchus pacificus. PLoS computational biology 20 (1) (2024)
Michael S Werner, Tobias Loschko, Thomas King, Shelley Reich, Tobias Theska, Mirita Franz-Wachtel, Boris Macek, Ralf J Sommer
Author Correction: Histone 4 lysine 5/12 acetylation enables developmental plasticity of Pristionchus mouth form. Nature communications 14 (1) (2023)
Michael S Werner, Tobias Loschko, Thomas King, Shelley Reich, Tobias Theska, Mirita Franz-Wachtel, Boris Macek, Ralf J Sommer
Author Correction: Histone 4 lysine 5/12 acetylation enables developmental plasticity of Pristionchus mouth form. Nature communications 14 (1) (2023)
Kohta Yoshida, Christian Rödelsperger, Waltraud Röseler, Metta Riebesell, Simo Sun, Taisei Kikuchi, Ralf J Sommer
Chromosome fusions repatterned recombination rate and facilitated reproductive isolation during Pristionchus nematode speciation. Nature ecology & evolution 7 (3) (2023)
Mohannad Dardiry, Veysi Piskobulu, Ata Kalirad, Ralf J Sommer
Experimental and theoretical support for costs of plasticity and phenotype in a nematode cannibalistic trait. Evolution letters 7 (1) (2023)
Kohta Yoshida, Christian Rödelsperger, Waltraud Röseler, Metta Riebesell, Simo Sun, Taisei Kikuchi, Ralf J Sommer
Chromosome fusions repatterned recombination rate and facilitated reproductive isolation during Pristionchus nematode speciation. Nature ecology & evolution (2023)
Kohta Yoshida, Christian Rödelsperger, Waltraud Röseler, Metta Riebesell, Simo Sun, Taisei Kikuchi, Ralf J Sommer
Chromosome fusions repatterned recombination rate and facilitated reproductive isolation during Pristionchus nematode speciation. Nature ecology & evolution 7 (3) (2023)
Kohta Yoshida, Christian Rödelsperger, Waltraud Röseler, Metta Riebesell, Simo Sun, Taisei Kikuchi, Ralf J Sommer
Chromosome fusions repatterned recombination rate and facilitated reproductive isolation during Pristionchus nematode speciation. Nature ecology & evolution 7 (3) (2023)
Michael S Werner, Tobias Loschko, Thomas King, Shelley Reich, Tobias Theska, Mirita Franz-Wachtel, Boris Macek, Ralf J Sommer
Author Correction: Histone 4 lysine 5/12 acetylation enables developmental plasticity of Pristionchus mouth form. Nature communications 14 (1) (2023)
Kohta Yoshida, Christian Rödelsperger, Waltraud Röseler, Metta Riebesell, Simo Sun, Taisei Kikuchi, Ralf J Sommer
Chromosome fusions repatterned recombination rate and facilitated reproductive isolation during Pristionchus nematode speciation. Nature ecology & evolution 7 (3) (2023)
Michael S Werner, Tobias Loschko, Thomas King, Shelley Reich, Tobias Theska, Mirita Franz-Wachtel, Boris Macek, Ralf J Sommer
Histone 4 lysine 5/12 acetylation enables developmental plasticity of Pristionchus mouth form. Nature communications 14 (1) (2023)
Mohannad Dardiry, Gabi Eberhard, Hanh Witte, Christian Rödelsperger, James W Lightfoot, Ralf J Sommer
Divergent combinations of cis-regulatory elements control the evolution of phenotypic plasticity. PLoS biology 21 (8) (2023)
Mark Leaver, Eduardo Moreno, Merve Kayhan, Angela McGaughran, Christian Rödelsperger, Ralf J Sommer, Anthony A Hyman
Adaptation to environmental temperature in divergent clades of the nematode Pristionchus pacificus. Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 76 (8) (2022)
Sara S Wighard, Marina Athanasouli, Hanh Witte, Christian Rödelsperger, Ralf J Sommer
A New Hope: A hermaphroditic nematode enables analysis of a recent whole genome duplication event. Genome biology and evolution (2022)
Ziduan Han, Bogdan Sieriebriennikov, Vladislav Susoy, Wen-Sui Lo, Catia Igreja, Chuanfu Dong, Aileen Berasategui, Hanh Witte, Ralf J Sommer
Horizontally Acquired Cellulases Assist the Expansion of Dietary Range in Pristionchus Nematodes. Molecular biology and evolution 39 (2) (2022)
Shuai Sun, Tobias Theska, Hanh Witte, Erik J Ragsdale, Ralf J Sommer
The oscillating Mucin-type protein DPY-6 has a conserved role in nematode mouth and cuticle formation. Genetics 220 (3) (2022)
Catia Igreja, Tobias Loschko, Alejandra Schäfer, Radhika Sharma, Shiela Pearl Quiobe, Elbin Aloshy, Hanh Witte, Ralf J Sommer
Application of ALFA-Tagging in the Nematode Model Organisms Caenorhabditis elegans and Pristionchus pacificus . Cells 11 (23) (2022)
Wen-Sui Lo, Marianne Roca, Mohannad Dardiry, Marisa Mackie, Gabi Eberhardt, Hanh Witte, Ray Hong, Ralf J Sommer, James W Lightfoot
Evolution and diversity of TGF-β pathways are linked with novel developmental and behavioural traits. Molecular biology and evolution (2022)
Waltraud Röseler, Maximillian Collenberg, Kohta Yoshida, Christa Lanz, Ralf J Sommer, Christian Rödelsperger
The improved genome of the nematode Parapristionchus giblindavisi provides insights into lineage-specific gene family evolution. G3 (Bethesda, Md.) 12 (10) (2022)
Catia Igreja, Tobias Loschko, Alejandra Schäfer, Radhika Sharma, Shiela Pearl Quiobe, Elbin Aloshy, Hanh Witte, Ralf J Sommer
Application of ALFA-Tagging in the Nematode Model Organisms Caenorhabditis elegans and Pristionchus pacificus . Cells 11 (23) (2022)
Catia Igreja, Tobias Loschko, Alejandra Schäfer, Radhika Sharma, Shiela Pearl Quiobe, Elbin Aloshy, Hanh Witte, Ralf J Sommer
Application of ALFA-Tagging in the Nematode Model Organisms Caenorhabditis elegans and Pristionchus pacificus . Cells 11 (23) (2022)
Catia Igreja, Tobias Loschko, Alejandra Schäfer, Radhika Sharma, Shiela Pearl Quiobe, Elbin Aloshy, Hanh Witte, Ralf J Sommer
Application of ALFA-Tagging in the Nematode Model Organisms Caenorhabditis elegans and Pristionchus pacificus . Cells 11 (23) (2022)
James W Lightfoot, Mohannad Dardiry, Ata Kalirad, Stefano Giaimo, Gabi Eberhardt, Hanh Witte, Martin Wilecki, Christian Rödelsperger, Arne Traulsen, Ralf J Sommer
Sex or cannibalism: Polyphenism and kin recognition control social action strategies in nematodes. Science advances 7 (35) (2021)
Tess Renahan, Wen-Sui Lo, Michael S Werner, Jacques Rochat, Matthias Herrmann, Ralf J Sommer
Nematode biphasic 'boom and bust' dynamics are dependent on host bacterial load while linking dauer and mouth-form polyphenisms. Environmental microbiology 23 (9) (2021)
Shuai Sun, Christian Rödelsperger, Ralf J Sommer
Single worm transcriptomics identifies a developmental core network of oscillating genes with deep conservation across nematodes. Genome research 31 (9) (2021)
Maša Lenuzzi, Hanh Witte, Metta Riebesell, Christian Rödelsperger, Ray L Hong, Ralf J Sommer
Influence of environmental temperature on mouth-form plasticity in Pristionchus pacificus acts through daf-11-dependent cGMP signaling. Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution (2021)
Ralf J Sommer
Phenotypic Plasticity: From Theory and Genetics to Current and Future Challenges. Genetics 215 (1) (2021)
Tobias Theska, Bogdan Sieriebriennikov, Sara S Wighard, Michael S Werner, Ralf J Sommer
Geometric morphometrics of microscopic animals as exemplified by model nematodes. Nature protocols 15 (8) (2020)
Tess Renahan, Ralf J Sommer
Mechanism of murderous mushrooms paves path for parasitic helminth halt. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117 (13) (2020)
Bogdan Sieriebriennikov, Shuai Sun, James W Lightfoot, Hanh Witte, Eduardo Moreno, Christian Rödelsperger, Ralf J Sommer
Conserved nuclear hormone receptors controlling a novel plastic trait target fast-evolving genes expressed in a single cell. PLoS genetics 16 (4) (2020)
Nermin Akduman, James W Lightfoot, Waltraud Röseler, Hanh Witte, Wen-Sui Lo, Christian Rödelsperger, Ralf J Sommer
Bacterial vitamin B12 production enhances nematode predatory behavior. The ISME journal 14 (6) (2020)
Chuanfu Dong, Cameron J Weadick, Vincent Truffault, Ralf J Sommer
Convergent evolution of small molecule pheromones in Pristionchus nematodes. eLife 9 (2020)
Ziduan Han, Wen-Sui Lo, James W Lightfoot, Hanh Witte, Shuai Sun, Ralf J Sommer
Improving Transgenesis Efficiency and CRISPR-Associated Tools Through Codon Optimization and Native Intron Addition in Pristionchus Nematodes. Genetics 216 (4) (2020)
Ivan Gallotta, Aneet Sandhu, Maximilian Peters, Martin Haslbeck, Raimund Jung, Sinem Agilkaya, Jane L Blersch, Christian Rödelsperger, Waltraud Röseler, Chaolie Huang, Ralf J Sommer, Della C David
Extracellular proteostasis prevents aggregation during pathogenic attack. Nature 584 (7821) (2020)
James W Lightfoot, Martin Wilecki, Christian Rödelsperger, Eduardo Moreno, Vladislav Susoy, Hanh Witte, Ralf J Sommer
Small peptide-mediated self-recognition prevents cannibalism in predatory nematodes. Science (New York, N.Y.) 364 (6435) (2019)
Ray L Hong, Metta Riebesell, Daniel J Bumbarger, Steven J Cook, Heather R Carstensen, Tahmineh Sarpolaki, Luisa Cochella, Jessica Castrejon, Eduardo Moreno, Bogdan Sieriebriennikov, Oliver Hobert, Ralf J Sommer
Evolution of neuronal anatomy and circuitry in two highly divergent nematode species. eLife 8 (2019)
Suryesh Namdeo, Eduardo Moreno, Christian Rödelsperger, Praveen Baskaran, Hanh Witte, Ralf J Sommer
Two independent sulfation processes regulate mouth-form plasticity in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus. Development (Cambridge, England) 145 (13) (2018)
Ralf J Sommer, Mohannad Dardiry, Masa Lenuzzi, Suryesh Namdeo, Tess Renahan, Bogdan Sieriebriennikov, Michael S Werner
The genetics of phenotypic plasticity in nematode feeding structures. Open biology 7 (3) (2018)
Nermin Akduman, Christian Rödelsperger, Ralf J Sommer
Culture-based analysis of Pristionchus-associated microbiota from beetles and figs for studying nematode-bacterial interactions. PloS one 13 (6) (2018)
Metta Riebesell, Ralf J Sommer
Three-dimensional reconstruction of the pharyngeal gland cells in the predatory nematode Pristionchus pacificus. Journal of morphology 278 (12) (2017)
Misako Okumura, Martin Wilecki, Ralf J Sommer
Serotonin Drives Predatory Feeding Behavior via Synchronous Feeding Rhythms in the Nematode Pristionchus pacificus. G3 (Bethesda, Md.) 7 (11) (2017)

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