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Ralf J. Sommer

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Publications

194

Citations

10.2K

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60

Active since

1989

Affiliations

Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology(Current)

Max Planck Institute for Biology

Max Planck Society

Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute

Ralf J. Sommer is an author at Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology specializing in biology, medicine, and natural sciences.

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BiologyMedicineNatural SciencesEvolutionary BiologyGeneticsMorphogenesisDevelopmental BiologyPhylogeneticsParasitologyEvolutionary Developmental Biology

Publications per year

1989–2025

194

Publications

194

The Pristionchus pacificus genome provides a unique perspective on nematode lifestyle and parasitism

Christoph Dieterich, Sandra W. Clifton, Lisa Schuster et al. · Nature Genetics · 2008 · 343 citations · Full text

Biology, Phylogenetics, Molecular Ecology +13

Co-option of the hormone-signalling module dafachronic acid–DAF-12 in nematode evolution

Gilberto Bento, Akira Ogawa, Ralf J. Sommer · Nature · 2010 · 219 citations

Biology, Developmental Biology, Signal Transduction +7

Minimal homology requirements for PCR primers

Ralf J. Sommer, Diethard Tautz · Nucleic Acids Research · 1989 · 211 citations · Full text

Trends, Stasis, and Drift in the Evolution of Nematode Vulva Development

Karin Kiontke, Antoine Barrière, Irina Kolotuev et al. · Current Biology · 2007 · 202 citations · Full text

Biology, Developmental Biology, Medicine +9

System-wide Rewiring Underlies Behavioral Differences in Predatory and Bacterial-Feeding Nematodes

Daniel J. Bumbarger, Metta Riebesell, Christian Rödelsperger et al. · Cell · 2013 · 178 citations · Full text

Biology, Engineering, Bacterial-feeding Nematodes +9

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