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Ancient gene duplications have shaped developmental stage-specific expression in Pristionchus pacificus [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2015 Abstract Background The development of multicellular organisms is accompanied by gene expression changes in differentiating cells. Profiling stage-specific expression during development may reveal important insights into gene sets that contributed to the morphological diversity across the animal kingdom.
Baskaran, P. +6 more
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The role of plasticity and stochasticity in coexistence
Ecology Letters, Volume 27, Issue 2, February 2024.Phenotypic plasticity, which is widespread in nature, can profoundly affect the composition of an ecological assembly. We present an integrative theoretical–experimental framework using the nematode plasticity model Pristionchus pacificus to predict how diet‐induced polyphenism can result in exclusion and/or coexistence. Abstract Species coexistence in
Ata Kalirad, Ralf J. Sommer
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Pristionchus.org: a genome-centric database of the nematode satellite species Pristionchus pacificus [PDF]
Nucleic Acids Research, 2007 Comparative studies have been of invaluable importance to the understanding of evolutionary biology. The evolution of developmental programs can be studied in nematodes at a single cell resolution given their fixed cell lineage. We have established Pristionchus pacificus as a major satellite organism for evolutionary developmental biology relative to ...
Dieterich, C. +3 more
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BiologyPolyphenisms, the capability of organisms to form two or more alternative phenotypes in response to environmental variation, are prevalent in nature. However, associated molecular mechanisms and potential general principles of polyphenisms among major ...
Sara Wighard, Ralf J. Sommer
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Stochastic and conditional regulation of nematode mouth-form dimorphisms
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2016 Integrative research at the interphase between ecology, developmental, and evolutionary biology increasingly highlights the importance of phenotypic plasticity, the property of a single genotype to produce different phenotypes depending on environmental ...
Ralf J Sommer, Vladislav eSusoy
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A host beetle pheromone regulates development and behavior in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus
eLife, 2014 Nematodes and insects are the two most speciose animal phyla and nematode–insect associations encompass widespread biological interactions. To dissect the chemical signals and the genes mediating this association, we investigated the effect of an ...
Jessica K Cinkornpumin +7 more
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bioRxiv, 2019 Meiosis is conserved across eukaryotes yet varies in the details of its execution. Here we describe a new comparative model system for molecular analysis of meiosis, the nematode Pristionchus pacificus, a distant relative of the widely studied model ...
Regina Rillo-Bohn +11 more
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Computational and phylogenetic validation of nematode horizontal gene transfer
BMC Biology, 2011 Sequencing of expressed genes has shown that nematodes, particularly the plant-parasitic nematodes, have genes purportedly acquired from other kingdoms by horizontal gene transfer.
Bird David, Scholl Elizabeth H
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Environmental variables explain genetic structure in a beetle-associated nematode.
PLoS ONE, 2014 The distribution of a species is a complex expression of its ecological and evolutionary history and integrating population genetic, environmental, and ecological data can provide new insights into the effects of the environment on the population ...
Angela McGaughran +2 more
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Development, 2018 Sulfation of biomolecules, like phosphorylation, is one of the most fundamental and ubiquitous biochemical modifications with important functions during detoxification.
S. Namdeo +5 more
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