| The evolution of signalling pathways in animal development A Pires-daSilva, RJ Sommer Nature Reviews Genetics 4 (1), 39-49, 2003 | 553 | 2003 |
| The Pristionchus pacificus genome provides a unique perspective on nematode lifestyle and parasitism C Dieterich, SW Clifton, LN Schuster, A Chinwalla, K Delehaunty, ... Nature genetics 40 (10), 1193-1198, 2008 | 390 | 2008 |
| Minimal homology requirements for PCR primers. R Sommer, D Tautz Nucleic acids research 17 (16), 6749, 1989 | 290 | 1989 |
| Trends, stasis, and drift in the evolution of nematode vulva development K Kiontke, A Barrière, I Kolotuev, B Podbilewicz, R Sommer, DHA Fitch, ... Current Biology 17 (22), 1925-1937, 2007 | 231 | 2007 |
| Co-option of the hormone-signalling module dafachronic acid–DAF-12 in nematode evolution G Bento, A Ogawa, RJ Sommer Nature 466 (7305), 494-497, 2010 | 215 | 2010 |
| Morphological, genetic and molecular description of Pristionchus pacificus sp. n.(Nematoda: Neodiplogasteridae) RJ Sommer, LK Carta, S Kim, PW Sternberg Fundamental and applied Nematology 19, 511-522, 1996 | 213 | 1996 |
| Nematodes of the genus Pristionchus are closely associated with scarab beetles and the Colorado potato beetle in Western Europe M Herrmann, WE Mayer, RJ Sommer Zoology 109 (2), 96-108, 2006 | 189 | 2006 |
| Involvement of an orthologue of the Drosophila pair-rule gene hairy in segment formation of the short germ-band embryo of Tribolium (Coleoptera) RJ Sommer, D Tautz Nature 361 (6411), 448-450, 1993 | 189 | 1993 |
| A developmental switch coupled to the evolution of plasticity acts through a sulfatase EJ Ragsdale, MR Müller, C Rödelsperger, RJ Sommer Cell 155 (4), 922-933, 2013 | 185 | 2013 |
| A conserved endocrine mechanism controls the formation of dauer and infective larvae in nematodes A Ogawa, A Streit, A Antebi, RJ Sommer Current Biology 19 (1), 67-71, 2009 | 185 | 2009 |
| Proteogenomics of Pristionchus pacificus reveals distinct proteome structure of nematode models N Borchert, C Dieterich, K Krug, W Schütz, S Jung, A Nordheim, ... Genome research 20 (6), 837-846, 2010 | 184 | 2010 |
| The future of evo–devo: model systems and evolutionary theory RJ Sommer Nature Reviews Genetics 10 (6), 416-422, 2009 | 181 | 2009 |
| System-wide rewiring underlies behavioral differences in predatory and bacterial-feeding nematodes DJ Bumbarger, M Riebesell, C Rödelsperger, RJ Sommer Cell 152 (1), 109-119, 2013 | 166 | 2013 |
| Phenotypic plasticity: from theory and genetics to current and future challenges RJ Sommer Genetics 215 (1), 1-13, 2020 | 163 | 2020 |
| Segmentation gene expression in the housefly Musca domestica R Sommer, D Tautz Development 113 (2), 419-430, 1991 | 156 | 1991 |
| Pristionchus pacificus: a well‐rounded nematode RL Hong, RJ Sommer Bioessays 28 (6), 651-659, 2006 | 149 | 2006 |
| Conserved and divergent expression aspects of the Drosophila segmentation gene hunchback in the short germ band embryo of the flour beetle Tribolium C Wolff, R Sommer, R Schröder, G Glaser, D Tautz Development 121 (12), 4227-4236, 1995 | 147 | 1995 |
| The nematode Pristionchus pacificus (Nematoda: Diplogastridae) is associated with the oriental beetle Exomala orientalis (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in Japan M Herrmann, WE Mayer, RL Hong, S Kienle, R Minasaki, RJ Sommer Zoological science 24 (9), 883-889, 2007 | 137 | 2007 |
| Rapid diversification associated with a macroevolutionary pulse of developmental plasticity V Susoy, EJ Ragsdale, N Kanzaki, RJ Sommer elife 4, e05463, 2015 | 135 | 2015 |
| How to become a parasite–lessons from the genomes of nematodes C Dieterich, RJ Sommer Trends in Genetics 25 (5), 203-209, 2009 | 135 | 2009 |
