List of works - Jonathan Z. Shik

A fungal symbiont converts provisioned cellulose into edible yield for its leafcutter ant farmers

scientific article published on 20 April 2022

Aphid honeydew provides a nutritionally balanced resource for incipient Argentine ant mutualists

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Cryptic Diversity in Colombian Edible Leaf-Cutting Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

scientific article published on 12 December 2018

Diet specialization in an extreme omnivore: nutritional regulation in glucose-averse German cockroaches.

scientific article published on 31 July 2014

Disentangling nutritional pathways linking leafcutter ants and their co-evolved fungal symbionts using stable isotopes

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Effect of scattered and discrete hydramethylnon bait placement on the Asian needle ant.

scientific article published in October 2012

Evidence for locally adaptive metabolic rates among ant populations along an elevational gradient

scientific article published on 30 May 2019

Metabolism and the rise of fungus cultivation by ants

scientific article published on 28 July 2014

Nutrition mediates the expression of cultivar-farmer conflict in a fungus-growing ant.

scientific article published on 22 August 2016

Nutritional niches reveal fundamental domestication trade-offs in fungus-farming ants

scientific article published on 26 October 2020

Preliminary Assessment of Metabolic Costs of the Nematode Myrmeconema neotropicum on its Host, the Tropical Ant Cephalotes atratus

scientific article published on March 23, 2011

Reconstructing the functions of endosymbiotic Mollicutes in fungus-growing ants

scientific article published on 20 November 2018

Scaling community structure: how bacteria, fungi, and ant taxocenes differentiate along a tropical forest floor

scientific article published on August 2010

Towards a general life-history model of the superorganism: predicting the survival, growth and reproduction of ant societies.

scientific article published on 15 August 2012

Towards a nutritional ecology of invasive establishment: aphid mutualists provide better fuel for incipient Argentine ant colonies than insect prey