Christian Braendle

The paper investigates genetic conflict between toxin-antidote elements in C. tropicalis, revealing their role in shaping hyperdivergent haplotypes through competition and recombination.

The paper analyzes the genomic diversity of C. tropicalis, finding geographic correlation and hyper-divergent regions linked to environmental adaptation.

The paper investigates vector use among three sympatric Caenorhabditis nematodes in southwestern Germany, finding specific associations with invasive beetles.

The paper identifies 94 candidate genes in C. elegans linked to susceptibility to 23 environmental toxicants using genome-wide association analysis.

The paper analyzes over 2,000 Caenorhabditis briggsae wild strains to uncover genetic diversity, population structure, and evolutionary mechanisms shaping phenotypic variation.

This study quantifies developmental plasticity in C. elegans hermaphrodite sperm production across environments and finds it is often oocyte-limited, not sperm-limited, with genetic background affecting plasticity.

The paper quantifies mutational sensitivity in nematode vulval development and shows how differences in sensitivity between clades explain divergent phenotypic evolution patterns.

The paper identifies a 148 bp deletion in the lag-2 promoter as a causal variant for variation in germ stem cell niche activity in C. elegans, but shows that its effects are modulated by higher-order epistasis.

The paper identifies toxin-antidote elements in Caenorhabditis species, showing they cause developmental delay and are subject to balancing selection.

The paper investigates natural variation in sperm size among C. elegans strains and identifies genetic factors, particularly nurf-1, influencing male sperm size and competitive ability.

The paper describes ten new Caenorhabditis species, presents their genome sequences, and analyzes their evolutionary relationships and gene structure.

This study identifies RGL-1 as a balanced switch that coordinates opposing signals to ensure developmental fidelity in C. elegans vulval precursor cells.

The paper investigates how physiological starvation affects the EGF-Ras-MAPK pathway during C. elegans vulval induction, showing that nutrient deprivation modulates pathway activity and suppresses mutant phenotypes.

This study identifies convergent evolution of sperm gigantism in Caenorhabditis nematodes and shows that sperm size variation is established early in development.