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A histone demethylase links the loss of plasticity to nongenetic inheritance and morphological change by Levis, Nicholas A., Ragsdale, Erik J.

“…Plasticity is a widespread feature of development, enabling phenotypic change based on the environment. Although the evolutionary loss of plasticity has been…”
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A Developmental Switch Coupled to the Evolution of Plasticity Acts through a Sulfatase by Ragsdale, Erik J., Müller, Manuela R., Rödelsperger, Christian, Sommer, Ralf J.

“…Developmental plasticity has been suggested to facilitate phenotypic diversity, but the molecular mechanisms underlying this relationship are little…”
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Multiple Plasticity Regulators Reveal Targets Specifying an Induced Predatory Form in Nematodes by Bui, Linh T, Ragsdale, Erik J

“…The ability to translate a single genome into multiple phenotypes, or developmental plasticity, defines how phenotype derives from more than just genes…”
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A sulfotransferase dosage-dependently regulates mouthpart polyphenism in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus by Bui, Linh T., Ivers, Nicholas A., Ragsdale, Erik J.

“…Polyphenism, the extreme form of developmental plasticity, is the ability of a genotype to produce discrete morphologies matched to alternative environments…”
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Rapid diversification associated with a macroevolutionary pulse of developmental plasticity by Susoy, Vladislav, Ragsdale, Erik J, Kanzaki, Natsumi, Sommer, Ralf J

“…Developmental plasticity has been proposed to facilitate phenotypic diversification in plants and animals, but the macroevolutionary potential of plastic…”
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Adaptive value of a predatory mouth-form in a dimorphic nematode by Serobyan, Vahan, Ragsdale, Erik J., Sommer, Ralf J.

“…Polyphenisms can be adaptations to environments that are heterogeneous in space and time, but to persist they require conditional-specific advantages. The…”
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Linking Molecular Mechanisms and Evolutionary Consequences of Resource Polyphenism by Levis, Nicholas A, Ragsdale, Erik J

“…Resource polyphenism-the occurrence of environmentally induced, discrete, and intraspecific morphs showing differential niche use-is taxonomically widespread…”
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Tokorhabditis tauri n. sp. and T. atripennis n. sp. (Rhabditida: Rhabditidae), isolated from Onthophagus dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from the Eastern USA and Japan by Ragsdale, Erik J., Kanzaki, Natsumi, Yamashita, Tatsuya, Shinya, Ryoji

“…Two new species of , n. sp. and n. sp., which were isolated from multiple species in North America and from in Japan, respectively, are described. The new…”
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The Nuclear Hormone Receptor NHR-40 Acts Downstream of the Sulfatase EUD-1 as Part of a Developmental Plasticity Switch in Pristionchus by Kieninger, Manuela R., Ivers, Nicholas A., Rödelsperger, Christian, Markov, Gabriel V., Sommer, Ralf J., Ragsdale, Erik J.

“…Developmental plasticity, the ability of one genotype to produce distinct phenotypes in different environments, has been suggested to facilitate phenotypic…”
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Tokorhabditis n. gen. (Rhabditida, Rhabditidae), a comparative nematode model for extremophilic living by Kanzaki, Natsumi, Yamashita, Tatsuya, Lee, James Siho, Shih, Pei-Yin, Ragsdale, Erik J., Shinya, Ryoji

“…Life in extreme environments is typically studied as a physiological problem, although the existence of extremophilic animals suggests that developmental and…”
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Author Correction: A sulfotransferase dosage-dependently regulates mouthpart polyphenism in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus by Bui, Linh T., Ivers, Nicholas A., Ragsdale, Erik J.

“…The original version of this Article contained errors in Figure 4. In panel a, the x axis labels of bars 6-11 were incorrect, as depicted in the associated…”
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Feeding plasticity in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus is influenced by sex and social context and is linked to developmental speed by Serobyan, Vahan, Ragsdale, Erik J., Müller, Manuela R., Sommer, Ralf J.

“…SUMMARY The increasing evidence for a role of developmental plasticity in evolution offers exciting prospects for testing interactions between ecological and…”
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A phylogenetic framework for root lesion nematodes of the genus Pratylenchus (Nematoda): Evidence from 18S and D2–D3 expansion segments of 28S ribosomal RNA genes and morphological characters by Subbotin, Sergei A., Ragsdale, Erik J., Mullens, Teresa, Roberts, Philip A., Mundo-Ocampo, Manuel, Baldwin, James G.

“…The root lesion nematodes of the genus Pratylenchus Filipjev, 1936 are migratory endoparasites of plant roots, considered among the most widespread and…”
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A draft genome for a species of Halicephalobus (Panagrolaimidae) by Ragsdale, Erik J., Koutsovoulos, Georgios, Biddle, Joseph F.

“…is a clade of small, exclusively parthenogenic nematodes that have sometimes colonized remarkable habitats. Given their phylogenetic closeness to other…”
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Description of three Pristionchus species (Nematoda: Diplogastridae) from Japan that form a cryptic species complex with the model organism P. pacificus by Kanzaki, Natsumi, Ragsdale, Erik J, Herrmann, Matthias, Mayer, Werner E, Sommer, Ralf J

“…Three new species of Pristionchus (P. exspectatus, P. arcanus, and P. japonicus) are described from Japan. They are morphologically similar, with P…”
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Large-scale diversification without genetic isolation in nematode symbionts of figs by Susoy, Vladislav, Herrmann, Matthias, Kanzaki, Natsumi, Kruger, Meike, Nguyen, Chau N, Rödelsperger, Christian, Röseler, Waltraud, Weiler, Christian, Giblin-Davis, Robin M, Ragsdale, Erik J, Sommer, Ralf J

“…Diversification is commonly understood to be the divergence of phenotypes accompanying that of lineages. In contrast, alternative phenotypes arising from a…”
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A Mediator subunit imparts robustness to a polyphenism decision by Casasa, Sofia, Katsougia, Eleni, Ragsdale, Erik J

“…Polyphenism is a type of developmental plasticity that translates continuous environmental variability into discontinuous phenotypes. Such discontinuity likely…”
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Two new species of Pristionchus (Nematoda: Diplogastridae) support the biogeographic importance of Japan for the evolution of the genus Pristionchus and the model system P. pacificus by Kanzaki, Natsumi, Ragsdale, Erik J, Herrmann, Matthias, Röseler, Waltraud, Sommer, Ralf J

“…Pristionchus pacificus Sommer, Carta, Kim, and Sternberg, 1996 is an important model organism in evolutionary biology that integrates developmental biology…”
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Introduction to Nematode Genome and Transcriptome Announcements in the Journal of Nematology by Denver, Dee R., Ragsdale, Erik J., Thomas, W. Kelley, Zasada, Inga A.

“…The Journal of Nematology now offers publication of Nematode Genome Announcements (NGA) and Nematode Transcriptome Announcements (NTA). These brief reports…”
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Genetic regulators of a resource polyphenism interact to couple predatory morphology and behaviour by Nicholson, Rose M, Levis, Nicholas A, Ragsdale, Erik J

“…Phenotypic plasticity often requires the coordinated response of multiple traits observed individually as morphological, physiological or behavioural. The…”
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