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List of works by Ulrich G. Mueller

A breakthrough innovation in animal evolution

scientific article

Ancient tripartite coevolution in the attine ant-microbe symbiosis

scientific article (publication date: 17 January 2003)

Antagonistic interactions between garden yeasts and microfungal garden pathogens of leaf-cutting ants

scientific article published on 18 May 2009

Bacterial community composition and diversity in an ancestral ant fungus symbiosis

scientific article published on 25 June 2015

Bacterial diversity in Solenopsis invicta and Solenopsis geminata ant colonies characterized by 16S amplicon 454 pyrosequencing

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Bacterial microbiomes from vertically-transmitted fungal inocula of the leaf-cutting ant Atta texana

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Biogeography of mutualistic fungi cultivated by leafcutter ants

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Cleaner mites: sanitary mutualism in the miniature ecosystem of neotropical bee nests

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Coevolution between attine ants and actinomycete bacteria: a reevaluation

scientific article published on 26 August 2008

Comparative dating of attine ant and lepiotaceous cultivar phylogenies reveals coevolutionary synchrony and discord

scientific article published in June 2010

Complex host-pathogen coevolution in the Apterostigma fungus-growing ant-microbe symbiosis

scientific article published on 3 November 2006

Cryptic sex and many-to-one coevolution in the fungus-growing ant symbiosis

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)

Ecology of microfungal communities in gardens of fungus-growing ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): a year-long survey of three species of attine ants in Central Texas.

scientific article published on 14 July 2011

Effects of substrate, ant and fungal species on plant fiber degradation in a fungus-gardening ant symbiosis.

scientific article published on 10 February 2017

Environment or kin: whence do bees obtain acidophilic bacteria?

scientific article published on 16 February 2012

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

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Evolution of cold-tolerant fungal symbionts permits winter fungiculture by leafcutter ants at the northern frontier of a tropical ant-fungus symbiosis.

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Exploiting a mutualism: parasite specialization on cultivars within the fungus-growing ant symbiosis

scientific article published in September 2004

Flowers and Wild Megachilid Bees Share Microbes

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Frontier mutualism: coevolutionary patterns at the northern range limit of the leaf-cutter ant–fungus symbiosis ⬇️

scientific article published on March 9, 2011

Generalized antifungal activity and 454-screening of Pseudonocardia and Amycolatopsis bacteria in nests of fungus-growing ants

scientific article published on 22 September 2009

Host species and developmental stage, but not host social structure, affects bacterial community structure in socially polymorphic bees

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Host-associated genomic differentiation in congeneric butterflies: now you see it, now you do not.

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Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

scientific article published on March 2011

Interactions between fungi and bacteria influence microbial community structure in the Megachile rotundata larval gut.

scientific article published on 29 January 2014

Intraspecific variation and emendation of Hannaella kunmingensis

scientific article published in 2012

Island Populations of Physalaemus pustulosus: History Influences Genetic Diversity and Morphology

scientific article published in September 2007

Landscape genomics of an obligate mutualism: Concordant and discordant population structures between the leafcutter ant Atta texana and its two main fungal symbiont types

scientific article published on 29 May 2019

Metabolism and the rise of fungus cultivation by ants

scientific article published on 28 July 2014

Microbiomes of ant castes implicate new microbial roles in the fungus-growing ant Trachymyrmex septentrionalis.

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Monoculture of leafcutter ant gardens

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

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Nuclear populations of the multinucleate fungus of leafcutter ants can be dekaryotized and recombined to manipulate growth of nutritive hyphal nodules harvested by the ants.

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Paleodistributions and comparative molecular phylogeography of leafcutter ants (Atta spp.) provide new insight into the origins of Amazonian diversity

scientific article (publication date: 23 July 2008)

Phylogenetic patterns of ant-fungus associations indicate that farming strategies, not only a superior fungal cultivar, explain the ecological success of leafcutter ants

scientific article published on 09 May 2018

Phylogeny of leafcutter ants in the genus Atta Fabricius (Formicidae: Attini) based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences

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Phylogeography of post-Pleistocene population expansion in a fungus-gardening ant and its microbial mutualists

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Polymorphic microsatellite markers for the symbiotic fungi cultivated by leaf cutter ants (Attini, Formicidae) ⬇️

scientific article published on April 1, 2009

Potential Distribution of Six North American Higher-Attine Fungus-Farming Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Species

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Shared Escovopsis parasites between leaf-cutting and non-leaf-cutting ants in the higher attine fungus-growing ant symbiosis

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Specialization and group size: brain and behavioural correlates of colony size in ants lacking morphological castes

scientific article published in February 2015

Specificity between lactobacilli and hymenopteran hosts is the exception rather than the rule.

scientific article published on 4 January 2013

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

Thelytokous parthenogenesis in the fungus-gardening ant Mycocepurus smithii (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

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