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| Title |
Sex, bugs and Haldane's rule: the nematode genus Pristionchus in the United States
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Zoology, September 2006
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| DOI | 10.1186/1742-9994-3-14 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Matthias Herrmann, Werner E Mayer, Ralf J Sommer |
| Abstract |
The nematode Pristionchus pacificus has been developed as a satellite organism in evolutionary developmental biology for comparison to Caenorhabditis elegans. Comparative studies have revealed major differences in the regulation of developmental processes between P. pacificus and C. elegans. To place evolutionary developmental biology and the observed developmental differences between species in a comprehensive evolutionary context, such studies have to be complemented with ecological aspects. Knowledge about the ecology of the organism in question might indicate specific environmental conditions that can result in developmental adaptations and could account for species differences in development. To this end, we have started to investigate the ecology of Pristionchus nematodes. In recent field studies in Western Europe we found six Pristionchus species that are closely associated with scarab beetles and the Colorado potato beetle. This Pristionchus-beetle association provides the unique opportunity to combine research in evolutionary developmental biology with ecology. However, it remains unknown how general these findings from Europe are on a global scale. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 41 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 2 | 5% |
| United States | 2 | 5% |
| Sweden | 1 | 2% |
| Chile | 1 | 2% |
| Mexico | 1 | 2% |
| Czechia | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 33 | 80% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 29% |
| Researcher | 12 | 29% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 7% |
| Other | 3 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 5% |
| Other | 6 | 15% |
| Unknown | 3 | 7% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 23 | 56% |
| Environmental Science | 5 | 12% |
| Arts and Humanities | 1 | 2% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1 | 2% |
| Psychology | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 5 | 12% |
| Unknown | 5 | 12% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 November 2014.
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