Ulrich G. Mueller - Publications

Affiliations: 
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, U.S.A. 
Area:
Evolution, Symbiosis, Microbial Ecology, Population Biology, Behavior

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2023 Mueller UG, Himler AG, Farrior CE. Life history, nest longevity, sex ratio, and nest architecture of the fungus-growing ant Mycetosoritis hartmanni (Formicidae: Attina). Plos One. 18: e0289146. PMID 37494382 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0289146  0.805
2021 Mueller UG, Juenger TE, Kardish MR, Carlson AL, Burns KM, Edwards JA, Smith CC, Fang CC, Des Marais DL. Artificial Selection on Microbiomes To Breed Microbiomes That Confer Salt Tolerance to Plants. Msystems. e0112521. PMID 34846165 DOI: 10.1128/mSystems.01125-21  0.773
2020 Luiso J, Kellner K, Matthews AE, Mueller UG, Seal JN. High diversity and multiple invasions to North America by fungi grown by the northern-most Trachymyrmex and Mycetomoellerius ant species Fungal Ecology. 44: 100878. DOI: 10.1016/J.Funeco.2019.100878  0.784
2019 Senula SF, Scavetta JT, Banta JA, Mueller UG, Seal JN, Kellner K. Potential Distribution of Six North American Higher-Attine Fungus-Farming Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Species. Journal of Insect Science (Online). 19. PMID 31854452 DOI: 10.1093/Jisesa/Iez118  0.809
2019 Smith CC, Weber JN, Mikheyev AS, Roces F, Bollazzi M, Kellner K, Seal JN, Mueller UG. Landscape genomics of an obligate mutualism: Concordant and discordant population structures between the leafcutter ant Atta texana and its two main fungal symbiont types. Molecular Ecology. PMID 31141257 DOI: 10.1111/Mec.15111  0.799
2019 Solomon SE, Rabeling C, Sosa‐Calvo J, Lopes CT, Rodrigues A, Vasconcelos HL, Bacci M, Mueller UG, Schultz TR. The molecular phylogenetics of Trachymyrmex Forel ants and their fungal cultivars provide insights into the origin and coevolutionary history of ‘higher‐attine’ ant agriculture Systematic Entomology. 44: 939-956. DOI: 10.1111/Syen.12370  0.834
2019 Fang C, Chang F, Duong P, Kurian J, Mueller UG. Colony fitness and garden growth in the asexual fungus-growing ant Mycocepurus smithii (Attini, Formicidae) Insectes Sociaux. 67: 35-49. DOI: 10.1007/S00040-019-00741-9  0.312
2019 Fang C, Mueller UG. A new type of egg produced by foundress queens of Atta texana (Attini, Formicidae) Insectes Sociaux. 66: 601-609. DOI: 10.1007/S00040-019-00724-W  0.302
2018 Mueller UG, Kardish MR, Ishak HD, Wright AM, Solomon SE, Bruschi SM, Carlson AL, Bacci M. Phylogenetic patterns of ant-fungus associations indicate that farming strategies, not only a superior fungal cultivar, explain the ecological success of leafcutter ants. Molecular Ecology. PMID 29740906 DOI: 10.1111/Mec.14588  0.822
2017 Carlson AL, Ishak HD, Kurian J, Mikheyev AS, Gifford I, Mueller UG. 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. Mycologia. 1-15. PMID 29300677 DOI: 10.1080/00275514.2017.1400304  0.784
2017 Kellner K, Kardish MR, Seal JN, Linksvayer TA, Mueller UG. Symbiont-Mediated Host-Parasite Dynamics in a Fungus-Gardening Ant. Microbial Ecology. PMID 29285550 DOI: 10.1007/S00248-017-1124-6  0.814
2017 Mueller UG, Ishak HD, Bruschi SM, Smith CC, Herman JJ, Solomon SE, Mikheyev AS, Rabeling C, Scott JJ, Cooper M, Rodrigues A, Ortiz A, Brandão CRF, Lattke JE, Pagnocca FC, et al. Biogeography of Mutualistic Fungi Cultivated by Leafcutter Ants. Molecular Ecology. PMID 29134724 DOI: 10.1111/Mec.14431  0.803
2017 Smith CC, Srygley RB, Healy F, Swaminath K, Mueller UG. Spatial Structure of the Mormon Cricket Gut Microbiome and its Predicted Contribution to Nutrition and Immune Function. Frontiers in Microbiology. 8: 801. PMID 28553263 DOI: 10.3389/Fmicb.2017.00801  0.711
2017 DeMilto AM, Rouquette M, Mueller UG, Kellner K, Seal JN. Effects of Substrate, Ant and Fungal Species on Plant Fiber Degradation in a Fungus-gardening Ant Symbiosis. Journal of Insect Physiology. PMID 28193479 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jinsphys.2017.02.001  0.808
2017 Amador-Vargas S, Mueller UG. Ability to reorient is weakly correlated with central-place versus non-central-place foraging in acacia ants Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 71. DOI: 10.1007/S00265-016-2262-4  0.813
2017 Phillips ZI, Zhang MM, Mueller UG. Dispersal of Attaphila fungicola, a symbiotic cockroach of leaf-cutter ants Insectes Sociaux. 64: 277-284. DOI: 10.1007/S00040-016-0535-6  0.329
2016 Smith CC, Srygley RB, Dietrich EI, Mueller UG. Partitioning the effects of mating and nuptial feeding on the microbiome in gift-giving insects. Environmental Microbiology Reports. PMID 27894162 DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12506  0.797
2016 McFrederick QS, Thomas JM, Neff JL, Vuong HQ, Russell KA, Hale AR, Mueller UG. Flowers and Wild Megachilid Bees Share Microbes. Microbial Ecology. PMID 27592345 DOI: 10.1007/S00248-016-0838-1  0.815
2016 Meirelles LA, McFrederick QS, Rodrigues A, Mantovani JD, de Melo Rodovalho C, Ferreira H, Bacci M, Mueller UG. Bacterial microbiomes from vertically-transmitted fungal inocula of the leaf-cutting ant Atta texana. Environmental Microbiology Reports. PMID 27273758 DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12415  0.824
2016 Ma R, Mueller UG, Rangel J. Assessing the role of β-ocimene in regulating foraging behavior of the honey bee, Apis mellifera Apidologie. 47: 135-144. DOI: 10.1007/S13592-015-0382-X  0.442
2015 Meirelles LA, Solomon SE, Bacci M, Wright AM, Mueller UG, Rodrigues A. Shared Escovopsis parasites between leaf-cutting and non-leaf-cutting ants in the higher attine fungus-growing ant symbiosis. Royal Society Open Science. 2: 150257. PMID 26473050 DOI: 10.1098/Rsos.150257  0.739
2015 Mueller UG, Sachs JL. Engineering Microbiomes to Improve Plant and Animal Health. Trends in Microbiology. 23: 606-17. PMID 26422463 DOI: 10.1016/J.Tim.2015.07.009  0.363
2015 Smith CC, Mueller UG. Sexual transmission of beneficial microbes. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. PMID 26126934 DOI: 10.1016/J.Tree.2015.05.006  0.645
2015 Kellner K, Ishak HD, Linksvayer TA, Mueller UG. Bacterial community composition and diversity in an ancestral ant fungus symbiosis. Fems Microbiology Ecology. PMID 26113689 DOI: 10.1093/Femsec/Fiv073  0.801
2015 Schultz TR, Sosa-Calvo J, Brady SG, Lopes CT, Mueller UG, Bacci M, Vasconcelos HL. The most relictual fungus-farming ant species cultivates the most recently evolved and highly domesticated fungal symbiont species. The American Naturalist. 185: 693-703. PMID 25905511 DOI: 10.1086/680501  0.715
2015 Adams RM, Jones TH, Longino JT, Weatherford RG, Mueller UG. Alkaloid venom weaponry of three Megalomyrmex thief ants and the behavioral response of Cyphomyrmex costatus host ants. Journal of Chemical Ecology. 41: 373-85. PMID 25833216 DOI: 10.1007/S10886-015-0565-Y  0.736
2015 Amador-Vargas S, Gronenberg W, Wcislo WT, Mueller U. Specialization and group size: brain and behavioural correlates of colony size in ants lacking morphological castes. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 282: 20142502. PMID 25567649 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2014.2502  0.771
2015 Kardish MR, Mueller UG, Amador-Vargas S, Dietrich EI, Ma R, Barrett B, Fang C. Blind trust in unblinded observation in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 3. DOI: 10.3389/Fevo.2015.00051  0.765
2015 Seal JN, Brown L, Ontiveros C, Thiebaud J, Mueller UG. Gone to Texas: Phylogeography of two Trachymyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) species along the southeastern coastal plain of North America Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 114: 689-698. DOI: 10.1111/Bij.12426  0.418
2015 Marti HE, Carlson AL, Brown BV, Mueller UG. Foundress queen mortality and early colony growth of the leafcutter ant, Atta texana (Formicidae, Hymenoptera) Insectes Sociaux. 62: 357-363. DOI: 10.1007/S00040-015-0413-7  0.783
2014 Shik JZ, Santos JC, Seal JN, Kay A, Mueller UG, Kaspari M. Metabolism and the rise of fungus cultivation by ants. The American Naturalist. 184: 364-73. PMID 25141145 DOI: 10.1086/677296  0.775
2014 Seal JN, Schiøtt M, Mueller UG. Ant-fungus species combinations engineer physiological activity of fungus gardens. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 217: 2540-7. PMID 24803469 DOI: 10.1242/Jeb.098483  0.812
2014 McFrederick QS, Wcislo WT, Hout MC, Mueller UG. Host species and developmental stage, but not host social structure, affects bacterial community structure in socially polymorphic bees. Fems Microbiology Ecology. 88: 398-406. PMID 24579829 DOI: 10.1111/1574-6941.12302  0.815
2014 McFrederick QS, Mueller UG, James RR. Interactions between fungi and bacteria influence microbial community structure in the Megachile rotundata larval gut. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 281: 20132653. PMID 24478297 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2013.2653  0.787
2014 Seal JN, Mueller UG. Instability of novel ant-fungal associations constrains horizontal exchange of fungal symbionts Evolutionary Ecology. 28: 157-176. DOI: 10.1007/S10682-013-9665-8  0.438
2013 Mikheyev AS, McBride CS, Mueller UG, Parmesan C, Smee MR, Stefanescu C, Wee B, Singer MC. Host-associated genomic differentiation in congeneric butterflies: now you see it, now you do not. Molecular Ecology. 22: 4753-66. PMID 23927539 DOI: 10.1111/Mec.12423  0.816
2013 Kellner K, Fernández-Marín H, Ishak HD, Sen R, Linksvayer TA, Mueller UG. Co-evolutionary patterns and diversification of ant-fungus associations in the asexual fungus-farming ant Mycocepurus smithii in Panama. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 26: 1353-62. PMID 23639137 DOI: 10.1111/Jeb.12140  0.822
2013 McFrederick QS, Cannone JJ, Gutell RR, Kellner K, Plowes RM, Mueller UG. Specificity between lactobacilli and hymenopteran hosts is the exception rather than the rule. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 79: 1803-12. PMID 23291551 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.03681-12  0.819
2013 Dayo-Owoyemi I, Rodrigues A, Landell MF, Valente P, Mueller UG, Ramos JP, Pagnocca FC. Intraspecific variation and emendation of Hannaella kunmingensis Mycological Progress. 12: 157-165. DOI: 10.1007/S11557-012-0846-6  0.573
2012 Mehdiabadi NJ, Mueller UG, Brady SG, Himler AG, Schultz TR. Symbiont fidelity and the origin of species in fungus-growing ants. Nature Communications. 3: 840. PMID 22588302 DOI: 10.1038/Ncomms1844  0.818
2012 Mueller UG. Symbiont recruitment versus ant-symbiont co-evolution in the attine ant-microbe symbiosis. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 15: 269-77. PMID 22445196 DOI: 10.1016/J.Mib.2012.03.001  0.378
2012 McFrederick QS, Wcislo WT, Taylor DR, Ishak HD, Dowd SE, Mueller UG. Environment or kin: whence do bees obtain acidophilic bacteria? Molecular Ecology. 21: 1754-68. PMID 22340254 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-294X.2012.05496.X  0.829
2012 McFREDERICK QS, WCISLO WT, TAYLOR DR, ISHAK HD, DOWD SE, MUELLER UG. Corrigendum Molecular Ecology. 21: 2552-2553. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-294X.2012.05584.X  0.766
2012 Adams RMM, Shah K, Antonov LD, Mueller UG. Fitness consequences of nest infiltration by the mutualist-exploiter megalomyrmex adamsae Ecological Entomology. 37: 453-462. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2311.2012.01384.X  0.759
2012 Seal JN, Gus J, Mueller UG. Fungus-gardening ants prefer native fungal species: Do ants control their crops? Behavioral Ecology. 23: 1250-1256. DOI: 10.1093/Beheco/Ars109  0.397
2011 Ishak HD, Miller JL, Sen R, Dowd SE, Meyer E, Mueller UG. Microbiomes of ant castes implicate new microbial roles in the fungus-growing ant Trachymyrmex septentrionalis. Scientific Reports. 1: 204. PMID 22355719 DOI: 10.1038/Srep00204  0.823
2011 Rabeling C, Gonzales O, Schultz TR, Bacci M, Garcia MV, Verhaagh M, Ishak HD, Mueller UG. Cryptic sexual populations account for genetic diversity and ecological success in a widely distributed, asexual fungus-growing ant. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108: 12366-71. PMID 21768368 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1105467108  0.809
2011 Rodrigues A, Mueller UG, Ishak HD, Bacci M, Pagnocca FC. 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. Fems Microbiology Ecology. 78: 244-55. PMID 21671963 DOI: 10.1111/J.1574-6941.2011.01152.X  0.821
2011 Solomon SE, Lopes CT, Mueller UG, Rodrigues A, Sosa-Calvo J, Schultz TR, Vasconcelos HL. Nesting biology and fungiculture of the fungus-growing ant, Mycetagroicus cerradensis: new light on the origin of higher attine agriculture. Journal of Insect Science (Online). 11: 12. PMID 21526926 DOI: 10.1673/031.011.0112  0.809
2011 Yek SH, Mueller UG. The metapleural gland of ants. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 86: 774-91. PMID 21504532 DOI: 10.1111/J.1469-185X.2010.00170.X  0.774
2011 Abbot P, Abe J, Alcock J, Alizon S, Alpedrinha JA, Andersson M, Andre JB, van Baalen M, Balloux F, Balshine S, Barton N, Beukeboom LW, Biernaskie JM, Bilde T, Borgia G, ... ... Mueller UG, et al. Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality. Nature. 471: E1-4; author reply E. PMID 21430721 DOI: 10.1038/Nature09831  0.76
2011 Mueller UG, Mikheyev AS, Solomon SE, Cooper M. Frontier mutualism: coevolutionary patterns at the northern range limit of the leaf-cutter ant-fungus symbiosis. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 278: 3050-9. PMID 21389026 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2011.0125  0.761
2011 Mueller UG, Mikheyev AS, Hong E, Sen R, Warren DL, Solomon SE, Ishak HD, Cooper M, Miller JL, Shaffer KA, Juenger TE. Evolution of cold-tolerant fungal symbionts permits winter fungiculture by leafcutter ants at the northern frontier of a tropical ant-fungus symbiosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108: 4053-6. PMID 21368106 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1015806108  0.803
2011 Ishak HD, Plowes R, Sen R, Kellner K, Meyer E, Estrada DA, Dowd SE, Mueller UG. Bacterial diversity in Solenopsis invicta and Solenopsis geminata ant colonies characterized by 16S amplicon 454 pyrosequencing. Microbial Ecology. 61: 821-31. PMID 21243351 DOI: 10.1007/S00248-010-9793-4  0.814
2010 Choo J, Ishak H, Simpson B, Mueller U, Juenger T. Characterization of 14 microsatellite loci in a tropical palm, Attalea phalerata (Arecaceae). American Journal of Botany. 97: e105-6. PMID 21616808 DOI: 10.3732/Ajb.1000281  0.715
2010 Klein BA, Klein A, Wray MK, Mueller UG, Seeley TD. Sleep deprivation impairs precision of waggle dance signaling in honey bees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 107: 22705-9. PMID 21156830 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1009439108  0.756
2010 Mueller UG, Scott JJ, Ishak HD, Cooper M, Rodrigues A. Monoculture of leafcutter ant gardens. Plos One. 5. PMID 20844760 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0012668  0.811
2010 Mikheyev AS, Mueller UG, Abbot P. Comparative dating of attine ant and lepiotaceous cultivar phylogenies reveals coevolutionary synchrony and discord. The American Naturalist. 175: E126-33. PMID 20415533 DOI: 10.1086/652472  0.794
2010 Mueller UG, Ishak H, Lee JC, Sen R, Gutell RR. Placement of attine ant-associated Pseudonocardia in a global Pseudonocardia phylogeny (Pseudonocardiaceae, Actinomycetales): a test of two symbiont-association models. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek. 98: 195-212. PMID 20333466 DOI: 10.1007/S10482-010-9427-3  0.821
2010 De Fine Licht HH, Schiøtt M, Mueller UG, Boomsma JJ. Evolutionary transitions in enzyme activity of ant fungus gardens. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 64: 2055-69. PMID 20067517 DOI: 10.1111/J.1558-5646.2010.00948.X  0.344
2010 Smith CD, Smith CR, Mueller U, Gadau J. Ant genomics: strength and diversity in numbers. Molecular Ecology. 19: 31-5. PMID 20002579 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-294X.2009.04438.X  0.675
2010 Sen R, Mueller UG. Mycocepurus smithii Resonance. 15: 459-461. DOI: 10.1007/S12045-010-0073-X  0.706
2010 Sen R, Ishak HD, Kniffin TR, Mueller UG. Construction of chimaeric gardens through fungal intercropping: a symbiont choice experiment in the leafcutter ant Atta texana (Attini, Formicidae) Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 64: 1125-1133. DOI: 10.1007/S00265-010-0928-X  0.802
2010 Mueller UG, Ortiz A, Bacci M. Planting of fungus onto hibernating workers of the fungus-growing ant Mycetosoritis clorindae (Attini, Formicidae) Insectes Sociaux. 57: 209-215. DOI: 10.1007/S00040-010-0072-7  0.369
2009 Scott JJ, Weskin MK, Cooper M, Mueller UG. Polymorphic microsatellite markers for the symbiotic fungi cultivated by leaf cutter ants (Attini, Formicidae). Molecular Ecology Resources. 9: 1391-4. PMID 21564916 DOI: 10.1111/J.1755-0998.2009.02684.X  0.633
2009 Sen R, Ishak HD, Estrada D, Dowd SE, Hong E, Mueller UG. Generalized antifungal activity and 454-screening of Pseudonocardia and Amycolatopsis bacteria in nests of fungus-growing ants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 106: 17805-10. PMID 19805175 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0904827106  0.825
2009 Rabeling C, Lino-Neto J, Cappellari SC, Dos-Santos IA, Mueller UG, Bacci M. Thelytokous parthenogenesis in the fungus-gardening ant Mycocepurus smithii (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Plos One. 4: e6781. PMID 19707513 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0006781  0.724
2009 Rodrigues A, Cable RN, Mueller UG, Bacci M, Pagnocca FC. Antagonistic interactions between garden yeasts and microfungal garden pathogens of leaf-cutting ants. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek. 96: 331-42. PMID 19449210 DOI: 10.1007/S10482-009-9350-7  0.617
2009 Vo TL, Mueller UG, Mikheyev AS. Free-living fungal symbionts (Lepiotaceae) of fungus-growing ants (Attini: Formicidae). Mycologia. 101: 206-10. PMID 19397193 DOI: 10.3852/07-055  0.675
2009 Biani NB, Mueller UG, Wcislo WT. Cleaner mites: sanitary mutualism in the miniature ecosystem of neotropical bee nests. The American Naturalist. 173: 841-7. PMID 19371167 DOI: 10.1086/598497  0.795
2009 Himler AG, Caldera EJ, Baer BC, Fernández-Marín H, Mueller UG. No sex in fungus-farming ants or their crops. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 276: 2611-6. PMID 19369264 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2009.0313  0.821
2009 Bacci M, Solomon SE, Mueller UG, Martins VG, Carvalho AO, Vieira LG, Silva-Pinhati AC. Phylogeny of leafcutter ants in the genus Atta Fabricius (Formicidae: Attini) based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 51: 427-37. PMID 19041407 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2008.11.005  0.663
2009 Baer B, Dijkstra MB, Mueller UG, Nash DR, Boomsma JJ. Sperm length evolution in the fungus-growing ants Behavioral Ecology. 20: 38-45. DOI: 10.1093/Beheco/Arn112  0.374
2008 Mikheyev AS, Vo T, Mueller UG. Phylogeography of post-Pleistocene population expansion in a fungus-gardening ant and its microbial mutualists. Molecular Ecology. 17: 4480-8. PMID 18986494 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-294X.2008.03940.X  0.669
2008 Mueller UG, Dash D, Rabeling C, Rodrigues A. Coevolution between attine ants and actinomycete bacteria: a reevaluation. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 62: 2894-912. PMID 18752608 DOI: 10.1111/J.1558-5646.2008.00501.X  0.784
2008 Solomon SE, Bacci M, Martins J, Vinha GG, Mueller UG. Paleodistributions and comparative molecular phylogeography of leafcutter ants (Atta spp.) provide new insight into the origins of Amazonian diversity. Plos One. 3: e2738. PMID 18648512 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0002738  0.666
2008 Mueller UG, Rabeling C. A breakthrough innovation in animal evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 105: 5287-8. PMID 18385372 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0801464105  0.713
2008 Rodrigues A, Bacci M, Mueller UG, Ortiz A, Pagnocca FC. Microfungal "weeds" in the leafcutter ant symbiosis. Microbial Ecology. 56: 604-14. PMID 18369523 DOI: 10.1007/S00248-008-9380-0  0.679
2007 Martins J, Solomon SE, Mikheyev AS, Mueller UG, Ortiz A, Bacci M. Nuclear mitochondrial-like sequences in ants: evidence from Atta cephalotes (Formicidae: Attini). Insect Molecular Biology. 16: 777-84. PMID 18093006 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2583.2007.00771.X  0.694
2007 Mikheyev AS, Mueller UG, Boomsma JJ. Population genetic signatures of diffuse co-evolution between leaf-cutting ants and their cultivar fungi. Molecular Ecology. 16: 209-16. PMID 17181732 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-294X.2006.03134.X  0.728
2007 Lampert KP, Bernal XE, Rand AS, Mueller UG, Ryan MJ. Island populations of Physalaemus pustulosus: History influences genetic diversity and morphology Herpetologica. 63: 311-319. DOI: 10.1655/0018-0831(2007)63[311:Ipopph]2.0.Co;2  0.406
2007 Rabeling C, Cover SP, Johnson RA, Mueller UG. A review of the North American species of the fungus-gardening ant genus Trachymyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Zootaxa. 1664: 1-53. DOI: 10.11646/Zootaxa.1664.1.1  0.691
2007 Mikheyev AS, Mueller UG. Genetic relationships between native and introduced populations of the little fire ant Wasmannia auropunctata Diversity and Distributions. 13: 573-579. DOI: 10.1111/J.1472-4642.2007.00370.X  0.666
2006 Little AE, Murakami T, Mueller UG, Currie CR. Defending against parasites: fungus-growing ants combine specialized behaviours and microbial symbionts to protect their fungus gardens. Biology Letters. 2: 12-6. PMID 17148313 DOI: 10.1098/Rsbl.2005.0371  0.706
2006 Gerardo NM, Mueller UG, Currie CR. Complex host-pathogen coevolution in the Apterostigma fungus-growing ant-microbe symbiosis. Bmc Evolutionary Biology. 6: 88. PMID 17083733 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-6-88  0.692
2006 Pröhl H, Koshy RA, Mueller U, Rand AS, Ryan MJ. Geographic variation of genetic and behavioral traits in northern and southern tüngara frogs. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 60: 1669-79. PMID 17017067 DOI: 10.1554/05-278.1  0.693
2006 Mikheyev AS, Mueller UG, Abbot P. Cryptic sex and many-to-one coevolution in the fungus-growing ant symbiosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 103: 10702-6. PMID 16815974 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0601441103  0.791
2006 Gerardo NM, Jacobs SR, Currie CR, Mueller UG. Ancient host-pathogen associations maintained by specificity of chemotaxis and antibiosis. Plos Biology. 4: e235. PMID 16805647 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pbio.0040235  0.676
2006 Mikheyev AS, Mueller UG. Invasive species: customs intercepts reveal what makes a good ant stowaway. Current Biology : Cb. 16: R129-31. PMID 16488863 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2006.02.001  0.682
2006 Pröhl H, Koshy RA, Mueller U, Rand AS, Ryan MJ. GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION OF GENETIC AND BEHAVIORAL TRAITS IN NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN TÚNGARA FROGS Evolution. 60: 1669-1679. DOI: 10.1111/J.0014-3820.2006.Tb00511.X  0.715
2006 Mehdiabadi NJ, Hughes B, Mueller UG. Cooperation, conflict, and coevolution in the attine ant-fungus symbiosis Behavioral Ecology. 17: 291-296. DOI: 10.1093/Beheco/Arj028  0.422
2006 Lampert KP, Bernal XE, Rand AS, Mueller UG, Ryan MJ. No evidence for female mate choice based on genetic similarity in the túngara frog Physalaemus pustulosus Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 59: 796-804. DOI: 10.1007/S00265-005-0125-5  0.319
2006 Rabeling C, Verhaagh M, Mueller UG. Behavioral ecology and natural history of Blepharidatta brasiliensis (Formicidae, Blepharidattini) Insectes Sociaux. 53: 300-306. DOI: 10.1007/S00040-006-0872-Y  0.753
2006 Advani NK, Mueller UG. A preference assay for quantifying symbiont choice in fungus-growing ants (Attini, Formicidae) Insectes Sociaux. 53: 446-455. DOI: 10.1007/S00040-005-0892-7  0.364
2005 Mueller UG, Gerardo NM, Aanen DK, Six DL, Schultz TR. The evolution of agriculture in insects Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 36: 563-595. DOI: 10.1146/Annurev.Ecolsys.36.102003.152626  0.757
2004 Villesen P, Mueller UG, Schultz TR, Adams RM, Bouck AC. Evolution of ant-cultivar specialization and cultivar switching in Apterostigma fungus-growing ants. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 58: 2252-65. PMID 15562688 DOI: 10.1111/J.0014-3820.2004.Tb01601.X  0.832
2004 Gerardo NM, Mueller UG, Price SL, Currie CR. Exploiting a mutualism: parasite specialization on cultivars within the fungus-growing ant symbiosis. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 271: 1791-8. PMID 15315894 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2004.2792  0.707
2004 Munkacsi AB, Pan JJ, Villesen P, Mueller UG, Blackwell M, McLaughlin DJ. Convergent coevolution in the domestication of coral mushrooms by fungus-growing ants. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 271: 1777-82. PMID 15315892 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2004.2759  0.73
2004 Sachs JL, Mueller UG, Wilcox TP, Bull JJ. The evolution of cooperation. The Quarterly Review of Biology. 79: 135-60. PMID 15232949 DOI: 10.1086/383541  0.433
2004 Mueller UG, Poulin J, Adams RMM. Symbiont choice in a fungus-growing ant (Attini, Formicidae) Behavioral Ecology. 15: 357-364. DOI: 10.1093/Beheco/Arh020  0.755
2004 Solomon SE, Mueller UG, Schultz TR, Currie CR, Price SL, Oliveira Da Silva-Pinhati AC, Bacci M, Vasconcelos HL. Nesting biology of the fungus growing ants Mycetarotes Emery (Attini, Formicidae) Insectes Sociaux. 51: 333-338. DOI: 10.1007/S00040-004-0742-4  0.724
2003 Little AE, Murakami T, Mueller UG, Currie CR. The infrabuccal pellet piles of fungus-growing ants. Die Naturwissenschaften. 90: 558-62. PMID 14676952 DOI: 10.1007/S00114-003-0480-X  0.714
2003 Lampert KP, Rand AS, Mueller UG, Ryan MJ. Fine-scale genetic pattern and evidence for sex-biased dispersal in the túngara frog, Physalaemus pustulosus. Molecular Ecology. 12: 3325-34. PMID 14629349 DOI: 10.1046/J.1365-294X.2003.02016.X  0.772
2003 Dearborn DC, Anders AD, Schreiber EA, Adams RM, Mueller UG. Inter-island movements and population differentiation in a pelagic seabird. Molecular Ecology. 12: 2835-43. PMID 12969485 DOI: 10.1046/J.1365-294X.2003.01931.X  0.791
2003 Currie CR, Wong B, Stuart AE, Schultz TR, Rehner SA, Mueller UG, Sung GH, Spatafora JW, Straus NA. Ancient tripartite coevolution in the attine ant-microbe symbiosis. Science (New York, N.Y.). 299: 386-8. PMID 12532015 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1078155  0.686
2002 Mueller UG. Ant versus fungus versus mutualism: ant-cultivar conflict and the deconstruction of the attine ant-fungus symbiosis. The American Naturalist. 160: S67-98. PMID 18707454 DOI: 10.1086/342084  0.378
2002 Mueller UG, Gerardo N. Fungus-farming insects: multiple origins and diverse evolutionary histories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 99: 15247-9. PMID 12438688 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.242594799  0.682
2002 Green AM, Mueller UG, Adams RM. Extensive exchange of fungal cultivars between sympatric species of fungus-growing ants. Molecular Ecology. 11: 191-5. PMID 11856421 DOI: 10.1046/J.1365-294X.2002.01433.X  0.793
2002 Prohl H, Adams RMM, Mueller U, Rand S, Ryan MJ. Polymerase chain reaction primers for polymorphic microsatellite loci from the tungara frog Physalaemus pustulosus Molecular Ecology Notes. 2: 341-343. DOI: 10.1046/J.1471-8286.2002.00240.X  0.673
2002 LaPolla JS, Mueller UG, Seid M, Cover SP. Predation by the army ant Neivamyrmex rugulosus on the fungus-growing ant Trachymyrmex arizonensis Insectes Sociaux. 49: 251-256. DOI: 10.1007/S00040-002-8310-2  0.36
2002 Schultz TR, Solomon SA, Mueller UG, Villesen P, Boomsma JJ, Adams RMM, Norden B. Cryptic speciation in the fungus-growing ants Cyphomyrmex longiscapus Weber and Cyphomyrmex muelleri Schultz and Solomon, new species (Formicidae, Attini) Insectes Sociaux. 49: 331-343. DOI: 10.1007/Pl00012657  0.826
2001 Mueller UG, Schultz TR, Currie CR, Adams RM, Malloch D. The origin of the attine ant-fungus mutualism. The Quarterly Review of Biology. 76: 169-97. PMID 11409051 DOI: 10.1086/393867  0.836
2000 Adams RM, Mueller UG, Schultz TR, Norden B. Agro-predation: usurpation of attine fungus gardens by Megalomyrmex ants. Die Naturwissenschaften. 87: 549-54. PMID 11198197 DOI: 10.1007/S001140050777  0.814
2000 Adams RM, Mueller UG, Holloway AK, Green AM, Narozniak J. Garden sharing and garden stealing in fungus-growing ants. Die Naturwissenschaften. 87: 491-3. PMID 11151668 DOI: 10.1007/S001140050765  0.78
1999 Villesen P, Gertsch PJ, Frydenberg J, Mueller UG, Boomsma JJ. Evolutionary transition from single to multiple mating in fungus-growing ants. Molecular Ecology. 8: 1819-25. PMID 10620226 DOI: 10.1046/J.1365-294X.1999.00767.X  0.736
1999 Currie CR, Mueller UG, Malloch D. The agricultural pathology of ant fungus gardens. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 96: 7998-8002. PMID 10393936 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.96.14.7998  0.464
1999 Currie CR, Mueller UG, Malloch D. The agricultural pathology of ant fungus gardens Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 96: 7998-8002. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.14.7998  0.357
1999 Wang Y, Mueller UG, Clardy J. Journal of Chemical Ecology. 25: 935-941. DOI: 10.1023/A:1020861221126  0.366
1998 Mueller UG, Rehner SA, Schultz TR. The evolution of agriculture in ants Science (New York, N.Y.). 281: 2034-8. PMID 9748164 DOI: 10.1126/Science.281.5385.2034  0.723
1998 Mueller UG, Wcislo WT. Nesting biology of the fungus-growing ant Cyphomyrmex longiscapus Weber (Attini, Formicidae) Insectes Sociaux. 45: 181-189. DOI: 10.1007/S000400050078  0.666
1996 Mueller UG, Lipari SE, Milgroom MG. Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) fingerprinting of symbiotic fungi cultured by the fungus-growing ant Cyphomyrmex minutus. Molecular Ecology. 5: 119-22. PMID 9147688 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-294X.1996.Tb00297.X  0.372
1996 Mueller UG. Genetic Intrigues: Evolution of Social Insect Colonies. Science. 274: 1477-1478. DOI: 10.1126/Science.274.5292.1477  0.303
1994 Mueller UG, Eisner T. The role of museums. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 9: 64. PMID 21236774 DOI: 10.1016/0169-5347(94)90275-5  0.439
1994 Chapela IH, Rehner SA, Schultz TR, Mueller UG. Evolutionary history of the symbiosis between fungus-growing ants and their fungi. Science (New York, N.Y.). 266: 1691-4. PMID 17775630 DOI: 10.1126/Science.266.5191.1691  0.692
1994 Mueller UG, Eickwort GC, Aquadro CF. DNA fingerprinting analysis of parent-offspring conflict in a bee. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 91: 5143-7. PMID 8197197 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.91.11.5143  0.686
1994 MUELLER UG, DEARING MD. Predation and avoidance of tough leaves by aquatic larvae of the moth Parapoynx rugosalis (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) Ecological Entomology. 19: 155-158. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2311.1994.Tb00405.X  0.312
1994 Wcislo WT, Danforth BN, Mueller UG. George Campbell Eickwort (1949?1994) Insectes Sociaux. 41: 461-463. DOI: 10.1007/Bf01240649  0.499
1991 Mueller UG, Wolf-Mueller B. Epiphyll deterrence to the leafcutter ant Atta cephalotes. Oecologia. 86: 36-39. PMID 28313155 DOI: 10.1007/Bf00317386  0.336
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