Tobias Loschko

The paper investigates natural variation in mouth-form plasticity in Pristionchus pacificus, linking it to genetic and molecular mechanisms involving nonsense-mediated decay and alternative start codon selection.

This study links bacterial metabolic pathways to nematode gene expression, behavior, and survival by analyzing interactions between Pristionchus pacificus and its associated bacteria.

The paper identifies two environmentally sensitive genes in a plasticity gene regulatory network and reveals metabolism as a shared pathway for mouth-form plasticity in Pristionchus.

The paper shows that histone 4 lysine 5/12 acetylation regulates developmental plasticity and epigenetic memory in nematodes by controlling switch gene expression during a critical environmental sensitivity window.

The paper improves gene annotations in Pristionchus pacificus by combining comparative genomics and community curation, resulting in a higher quality gene set with improved ortholog completeness.