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List of works by Ted R. Schultz

A new species of Simopelta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae) from Brazil and Costa Rica

scientific article (publication date: 8 May 2015)

A social parasite evolved reproductive isolation from its fungus-growing ant host in sympatry

scientific article

Ancient tripartite coevolution in the attine ant-microbe symbiosis

scientific article (publication date: 17 January 2003)

Ants, plants and antibiotics

scientific article published in Nature

Biogeography of mutualistic fungi cultivated by leafcutter ants

scientific article

Convergent evolution of complex structures for ant-bacterial defensive symbiosis in fungus-farming ants

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Corrigenda: Ješovnik A, Schultz TR (2017) Revision of the fungus-farming ant genus Sericomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae). ZooKeys 670: 1-109. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.670.11839.

scientific article

Cryptic sexual populations account for genetic diversity and ecological success in a widely distributed, asexual fungus-growing ant

scientific article (publication date: 26 July 2011)

Cyatta abscondita: taxonomy, evolution, and natural history of a new fungus-farming ant genus from Brazil

scientific article published in 2013

Development, homology and systematics.

scientific article

Dry habitats were crucibles of domestication in the evolution of agriculture in ants.

scientific article published in April 2017

Evaluating alternative hypotheses for the early evolution and diversification of ants

scientific article

Evolution of ant-cultivar specialization and cultivar switching in Apterostigma fungus-growing ants

scientific article

Functional and phylogenetic approaches reveal the evolution of diversity in a hyper diverse biota

scholarly article by Bonnie B. Blaimer et al published 13 February 2015 in Ecography

Global domination by crazy ants: phylogenomics reveals biogeographical history and invasive species relationships in the genus <i>Nylanderia</i> (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

scientific article published in 2020

Histrionicotoxin alkaloids finally detected in an ant.

scientific article

Identifying the transition between single and multiple mating of queens in fungus-growing ants

scientific article published in August 2002

Low host-pathogen specificity in the leaf-cutting ant-microbe symbiosis

scientific article published in August 2007

Major evolutionary transitions in ant agriculture

scientific article

Making Mosquito Taxonomy Useful: A Stable Classification of Tribe Aedini that Balances Utility with Current Knowledge of Evolutionary Relationships

scientific article published in 2015

Nesting biology and fungiculture of the fungus-growing ant, Mycetagroicus cerradensis: new light on the origin of higher attine agriculture

scientific article

Out of the temperate zone: A phylogenomic test of the biogeographical conservatism hypothesis in a contrarian clade of ants

scientific article published in 2022

Phylogenetic position of the ant genus Acropyga Roger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and the evolution of trophophoresy

scientific article (publication date: June 2006)

Phylogenomic methods outperform traditional multi-locus approaches in resolving deep evolutionary history: a case study of formicine ants

scientific article

Phylogenomics and Divergence Dating of Fungus-Farming Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Genera Sericomyrmex and Apterostigma

scientific article

Phylogeny and Behavior in Honey Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

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Phylogeny and biogeography of dolichoderine ants: effects of data partitioning and relict taxa on historical inference

scientific article

Reciprocal genomic evolution in the ant-fungus agricultural symbiosis

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Rediscovery of the enigmatic fungus-farming ant "Mycetosoritis" asper Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Implications for taxonomy, phylogeny, and the evolution of agriculture in ants

scientific article

Revision of the fungus-farming ant genus Sericomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae)

scientific article

Symbiont fidelity and the origin of species in fungus-growing ants

scientific article (publication date: 15 May 2012)

The Evolution of Agriculture in Insects

scientific article (publication date: December 2005)

The Last Piece of the Puzzle? Phylogenetic Position and Natural History of the Monotypic Fungus-Farming Ant Genus Paramycetophylax (Formicidae: Attini)

scholarly article published in 2022

The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

scholarly article by Philip S. Ward et al published 23 July 2014 in Systematic Entomology

The fungus-growing ant genus Apterostigma in Dominican amber

scientific article published in 2007

The molecular phylogenetics of Trachymyrmex Forel ants and their fungal cultivars provide insights into the origin and coevolutionary history of ‘higher‐attine’ ant agriculture

scientific article published on 3 September 2019

The most relictual fungus-farming ant species cultivates the most recently evolved and highly domesticated fungal symbiont species.

scientific article published on 17 March 2015

The rise of army ants and their relatives: diversification of specialized predatory doryline ants

scientific article published in 2014