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• Morphological, Genetic and Molecular Description of Pristionchus pacificus sp. n. (Nematoda, Diplogastridae)
  Sommer, R.J., Carta, L.K., Kim, S.Y. and Sternberg, P.W. 1996 Fundam. Appl. Nematol. 19: 511–21

• Pristionchus pacificus, a Nematode with Only Three Juvenile Stages, Displays Major Heterochronic Changes Relative to Caenorhabditis elegans
  Félix, M.A., Hill, R.J., Schwarz, H., Sternberg, P.W., Sudhaus, W. and Sommer, R.J. 1999 Proc. Biol. Sci. 266: 1617-21 doi: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0823

• Formation of the Egg-laying System in Pristionchus pacificus Requires Complex Interactions Between Gonadal, Mesodermal and Epidermal Tissues and Does Not Rely on Single Cell Inductions
  Jungblut, B., Pires-daSilva, A. and Sommer, R.J. 2001 Development 128: 3395-404 doi: 10.1242/dev.128.18.3395

• Pristionchus pacificus Vulva Formation: Polarized Division, Cell Migration, Cell Fusion, and Evolution of Invagination
  Kolotuev, I. and Podbilewicz, B. 2004 Dev. Biol. 266: 32233 doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2003.10.029

• Gonadogenesis in Pristionchus pacificus and Organ Evolution: Development, Adult Morphology and Cell-cell Interactions in the Hermaphrodite Gonad
  Rudel, D., Riebesell, M. and Sommer, R.J. 2005 Dev. Biol. 277: 20021 10.1016/j.ydbio.2004.09.021

• Pristionchus pacificus
  Sommer, R.J. 2006 WormBook, ed. The C. elegans Research Community doi: 10.1895/wormbook.1.102.1
  

• System-wide Rewiring Underlies Behavioral Differences in Predatory and Bacterial-feeding Nematodes
  Bumbarger, D.J., Riebesell, M., Rdelsperger, C. and Sommer, R.J, 2013 Cell 152: 109-19 doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2012.12.013

• Anatomy and Connectivity in the Pharyngeal Nervous System
  Bumbarger, D.J. and Riebesell, M. 2015 In: Pristionchus pacificus-A nematode model for comparative and evolutionary biology. Sommer, R.J., Hunt, D.J., Perry, R.N. ed. pp 353-83.  doi: 10.1163/9789004260306_014

• Three-dimensional Reconstruction of the Pharyngeal Gland Cells in the Predatory Nematode Pristionchus pacificus
  Riebesell, M. and Sommer, R.J. 2017 J. Morph. 278: 165666 doi: 10.1002/jmor.20739

• Evolution of Neuronal Anatomy and Circuitry in Two Highly Divergent Nematode Species
  Hong, R.L., Riebesell, M., Bumbarger, D.J., Cook, S.J., Carstensen, H.R., Sarpolaki, T., Cochella, L., Castrejon, J., Moreno, E., Sieriebriennikov, B., Hobert, O. and Sommer, R.J. 2019 eLife 8: e47155 doi: 10.7554/eLife.47155