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iso‐Fatty Acid Metabolism in Caenorhabditis elegans’ Ceramide Biosynthesis
Helvetica Chimica Acta, Volume 106, Issue 11, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Ceramide biosynthesis and its connection to iso‐fatty acid metabolism in the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans was investigated using a combination of reverse genetics and comparative ESI‐(+)‐HR‐MSe ceramide profiling along with incorporation experiments with bacterial mutants specifically enriched with isotopically labeled branched‐chain ...
Rocío Rivera Sánchez +8 more
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 13, Issue 10, October 2023., 2023 We evaluated whether a novel resource polyphenism in New World spadefoot toads evolved by co‐opting mechanisms from an ancestral form of plasticity (accelerating larval development rate in response to pond drying) common in anurans using differential gene expression analysis.
Andrew J. Isdaner +2 more
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Genome-wide analysis of germline signaling genes regulating longevity and innate immunity in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus. [PDF]
PLoS Pathogens, 2012 Removal of the reproductive system of many animals including fish, flies, nematodes, mice and humans can increase lifespan through mechanisms largely unknown.
Robbie Rae, Amit Sinha, Ralf J Sommer
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Sex, bugs and Haldane's rule: the nematode genus
Frontiers in Zoology, 2006 Background The nematode Pristionchus pacificus has been developed as a satellite organism in evolutionary developmental biology for comparison to Caenorhabditis elegans.
Herrmann Matthias +2 more
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The cGMP signaling pathway affects feeding behavior in the necromenic nematode Pristionchus pacificus. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 The genetic tractability and the species-specific association with beetles make the nematode Pristionchus pacificus an exciting emerging model organism for comparative studies in development and behavior. P. pacificus differs from Caenorhabditis elegans (
Silvina M Kroetz +4 more
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Predator-secreted sulfolipids induce defensive responses in C. elegans
Nature Communications, 2018 Defensive behavioral responses can be triggered by predator-released odors. Here, the authors identified the relevant Pristionchus pacificus-released sulfolipid molecules and dissected the neural circuits underlying C. elegans response to this predator.
Zheng Liu +10 more
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Developmental Plasticity and Robustness of a Nematode Mouth-Form Polyphenism
Frontiers in Genetics, 2018 In the last decade, case studies in plants and animals provided increasing insight into the molecular mechanisms of developmental plasticity. When complemented with evolutionary and ecological analyses, these studies suggest that plasticity represents a ...
Bogdan Sieriebriennikov, Ralf J. Sommer
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Nature Communications, 2016 In the nematode Pristionchus pacificus, a developmental switch, the sulfatase eud-1, controls mouth-form plasticity. Here, the authors show that mutations in two conserved histone modifying enzymes mimic the eud-1 phenotype, in part mediated by an ...
Vahan Serobyan +7 more
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BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2011 Background The recent sequencing of nematode genomes has laid the basis for comparative genomics approaches to study the impact of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) on the adaptation to new environments and the evolution of parasitism.
Sommer Ralf J, Rödelsperger Christian
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Journal of Nematology, 2019 The genus Pristionchus (Kreis, 1932) consists of more than 30 soil nematode species that are often found in association with scarab beetles. Three major radiations have resulted in the “maupasi species group” in America, the “pacificus species group” in ...
Herrmann Matthias +5 more
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