Erik J. Ragsdale

Indiana University Bloomington — United States

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Nematode management and characterization studies(37), Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms(20), Parasite Biology and Host Interactions(20), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior(12), Plant and animal studies(7)

Publications61 total

Genomic parallelism defines repeated evolution of an inducible offense
Science Advances·2025Open Access
A species-specific nuclear receptor was integrated into a developmental polyphenism pathway
Genetics·2025· 1 cited
Genetic regulators of a resource polyphenism interact to couple predatory morphology and behaviour
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
A histone demethylase links the loss of plasticity to nongenetic inheritance and morphological change
Nature Communications·2023· 17 citedOpen Access
A Mediator subunit imparts robustness to a polyphenism decision
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2023· 15 citedOpen Access
Comparative reconstruction of the predatory feeding structures of the polyphenic nematode <i>Pristionchus pacificus</i>
Evolution & Development·2022· 12 citedOpen Access
Linking Molecular Mechanisms and Evolutionary Consequences of Resource Polyphenism
Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience·2022· 9 citedOpen Access
<i>Tokorhabditis tauri</i> n. sp. and <i>T. atripennis</i> n. sp. (Rhabditida: Rhabditidae), isolated from <i>Onthophagus</i> dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from the Eastern USA and Japan
Journal of Nematology·2022· 10 citedOpen Access
The oscillating Mucin-type protein DPY-6 has a conserved role in nematode mouth and cuticle formation
Genetics·2021· 25 citedOpen Access
Tokorhabditis n. gen. (Rhabditida, Rhabditidae), a comparative nematode model for extremophilic living
Scientific Reports·2021· 18 citedOpen Access
Physiological Mechanisms and the Evolution of Plasticity
2021· 20 citedOpen Access
Polyphenism of a Novel Trait Integrated Rapidly Evolving Genes into Ancestrally Plastic Networks
Molecular Biology and Evolution·2020· 32 citedOpen Access
Regulators of an ancient polyphenism evolved through episodic protein divergence and parallel gene radiations
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2020· 12 citedOpen Access
Supplementary material from "Regulators of an ancient polyphenism evolved through episodic protein divergence and parallel gene radiations"
Figshare·2020Open Access
Multiple Plasticity Regulators Reveal Targets Specifying an Induced Predatory Form in Nematodes
Molecular Biology and Evolution·2019· 30 citedOpen Access
A draft genome for a species of <i>Halicephalobus</i> (Panagrolaimidae)
Journal of Nematology·2019· 6 citedOpen Access
Author Correction: A sulfotransferase dosage-dependently regulates mouthpart polyphenism in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus
Nature Communications·2018Open Access
A sulfotransferase dosage-dependently regulates mouthpart polyphenism in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus
Nature Communications·2018· 52 citedOpen Access
<i>Diplogastrellus</i> nematodes are sexually transmitted mutualists that alter the bacterial and fungal communities of their beetle host
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2018· 31 citedOpen Access
Evolution of developmental plasticity by opposing dosage of signalling-modifying enzymes
2018Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Natsumi Kanzaki(22), Ralf J. Sommer(21), Matthias Herrmann(12), J. G. Baldwin(8), Vladislav Susoy(5), Waltraud Röseler(4), Robin M. Giblin-davis(4), Joseph F. Biddle(4), Christian Rödelsperger(3), Nicholas A. Ivers(3), John Crum(3), Mark H. Ellisman(3), Manuela Rodrigues Müller(2), M. Mundo-Ocampo(2), Neelanjan Bose(2), Akira Ogawa(2), Stephan H. von Reuß(2), Joshua J. Yim(2), Frank C. Schroeder(2), Chau N. Nguyen(2)