Ted R. Schultz, PhD - Publications

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Entomology Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States 

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2022 Gotting K, May DS, Sosa-Calvo J, Khadempour L, Francoeur CB, Berasategui A, Thairu MW, Sandstrom S, Carlson CM, Chevrette MG, Pupo MT, Bugni TS, Schultz TR, Johnston JS, Gerardo NM, et al. Genomic diversification of the specialized parasite of the fungus-growing ant symbiosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 119: e2213096119. PMID 36508678 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2213096119  0.79
2021 Cardenas CR, Luo AR, Jones TH, Schultz TR, Adams RMM. Using an integrative taxonomic approach to delimit a sibling species, sp. nov. (Formicidae: Attini: Attina). Peerj. 9: e11622. PMID 34221725 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.11622  0.453
2020 Li H, Sun CY, Fang Y, Carlson CM, Xu H, Ješovnik A, Sosa-Calvo J, Zarnowski R, Bechtel HA, Fournelle JH, Andes DR, Schultz TR, Gilbert PUPA, Currie CR. Biomineral armor in leaf-cutter ants. Nature Communications. 11: 5792. PMID 33235196 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19566-3  0.761
2020 Williams JL, Zhang YM, Lloyd MW, LaPolla JS, Schultz TR, Lucky A. Global domination by crazy ants: phylogenomics reveals biogeographical history and invasive species relationships in the genus Nylanderia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Systematic Entomology. DOI: 10.1111/Syen.12423  0.509
2019 Neves K, Moura MR, Maravalhas J, Pacheco R, Pie MR, Schultz TR, Vasconcelos HL. Functional richness shows spatial scale dependency in ant assemblages from Neotropical savannas. Ecology and Evolution. 9: 11734-11741. PMID 31695883 DOI: 10.1002/Ece3.5672  0.408
2019 Borowiec ML, Rabeling C, Brady SG, Fisher BL, Schultz TR, Ward PS. Compositional heterogeneity and outgroup choice influence the internal phylogeny of the ants. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. PMID 30738910 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2019.01.024  0.668
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  0.803
2018 Li H, Sosa-Calvo J, Horn HA, Pupo MT, Clardy J, Rabeling C, Schultz TR, Currie CR. Convergent evolution of complex structures for ant-bacterial defensive symbiosis in fungus-farming ants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 30282739 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1809332115  0.811
2018 Sosa-Calvo J, Fernández F, Schultz TR. Phylogeny and evolution of the cryptic fungus-farming ant genusMyrmicocryptaF. Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) inferred from multilocus data Systematic Entomology. 44: 139-162. DOI: 10.1111/Syen.12313  0.431
2018 SOSA-CALVO J, SCHULTZ TR, JEŠOVNIK A, DAHAN RA, RABELING C. Evolution, systematics, and natural history of a new genus of cryptobiotic fungus-growing ants Systematic Entomology. 43: 549-567. DOI: 10.1111/Syen.12289  0.448
2018 Blaimer BB, Ward PS, Schultz TR, Fisher BL, Brady SG. Paleotropical Diversification Dominates the Evolution of the Hyperdiverse Ant Tribe Crematogastrini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Insect Systematics and Diversity. 2. DOI: 10.1093/Isd/Ixy013  0.795
2018 Hamilton N, Jones TH, Shik JZ, Wall B, Schultz TR, Blair HA, Adams RMM. Context is everything: mapping Cyphomyrmex-derived compounds to the fungus-growing ant phylogeny Chemoecology. 28: 137-144. DOI: 10.1007/S00049-018-0265-5  0.435
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, ... ... Schultz TR, et al. Biogeography of Mutualistic Fungi Cultivated by Leafcutter Ants. Molecular Ecology. PMID 29134724 DOI: 10.1111/Mec.14431  0.804
2017 Ješovnik A, Schultz TR. Revision of the fungus-farming ant genus Sericomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae). Zookeys. 1-109. PMID 28769657 DOI: 10.3897/Zookeys.670.11839  0.354
2017 Sosa-Calvo J, Ješovnik A, Vasconcelos HL, Bacci M, Schultz TR. Rediscovery of the enigmatic fungus-farming ant "Mycetosoritis" asper Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Implications for taxonomy, phylogeny, and the evolution of agriculture in ants. Plos One. 12: e0176498. PMID 28489860 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0176498  0.808
2017 Branstetter MG, Ješovnik A, Sosa-Calvo J, Lloyd MW, Faircloth BC, Brady SG, Schultz TR. Dry habitats were crucibles of domestication in the evolution of agriculture in ants. Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 284. PMID 28404776 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2017.0095  0.815
2017 JEŠOVNIK A, SOSA-CALVO J, LLOYD MW, BRANSTETTER MG, FERNÁNDEZ F, SCHULTZ TR. Phylogenomic species delimitation and host-symbiont coevolution in the fungus-farming ant genus Sericomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ultraconserved elements (UCEs) resolve a recent radiation Systematic Entomology. 42: 523-542. DOI: 10.1111/Syen.12228  0.575
2017 Sosa-Calvo J, Ješovnik A, Lopes CT, Rodrigues A, Rabeling C, Bacci M, Vasconcelos HL, Schultz TR. Biology of the relict fungus-farming ant Apterostigma megacephala Lattke, including descriptions of the male, gyne, and larva Insectes Sociaux. 64: 329-346. DOI: 10.1007/S00040-017-0550-2  0.579
2016 Ward PS, Brady SG, Fisher BL, Schultz TR. Phylogenetic classifications are informative, stable, and pragmatic: the case for monophyletic taxa. Insectes Sociaux. 63: 489-492. PMID 27773940 DOI: 10.1007/S00040-016-0516-9  0.525
2016 Ješovnik A, González VL, Schultz TR. Phylogenomics and Divergence Dating of Fungus-Farming Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Genera Sericomyrmex and Apterostigma. Plos One. 11: e0151059. PMID 27466804 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0151059  0.595
2016 Nygaard S, Hu H, Li C, Schiøtt M, Chen Z, Yang Z, Xie Q, Ma C, Deng Y, Dikow RB, Rabeling C, Nash DR, Wcislo WT, Brady SG, Schultz TR, et al. Reciprocal genomic evolution in the ant-fungus agricultural symbiosis. Nature Communications. 7: 12233. PMID 27436133 DOI: 10.1038/Ncomms12233  0.428
2015 Blaimer BB, Brady SG, Schultz TR, Lloyd MW, Fisher BL, Ward PS. Phylogenomic methods outperform traditional multi-locus approaches in resolving deep evolutionary history: a case study of formicine ants. Bmc Evolutionary Biology. 15: 271. PMID 26637372 DOI: 10.1186/S12862-015-0552-5  0.788
2015 Fernandes IO, Souza JL, Fernández C F, Delabie JH, Schultz TR. A new species of Simopelta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae) from Brazil and Costa Rica. Zootaxa. 3956: 295-300. PMID 26248921 DOI: 10.11646/Zootaxa.3956.2.10  0.53
2015 Wilkerson RC, Linton YM, Fonseca DM, Schultz TR, Price DC, Strickman DA. Making Mosquito Taxonomy Useful: A Stable Classification of Tribe Aedini that Balances Utility with Current Knowledge of Evolutionary Relationships. Plos One. 10: e0133602. PMID 26226613 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0133602  0.51
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  0.817
2015 Feitosa RM, Lattke JE, Schultz TR. Special Issue on Taxonomy, morphology, and phylogeny of ants Sociobiology. 62. DOI: 10.13102/Sociobiology.V62I2.Ed  0.674
2015 Sosa-Calvo J, Jesovnik A, Okonski E, Schultz TR. Locating, collecting, and maintaining colonies of fungus-farming ants (Hymenoptera: Myrmicinae: Attini) Sociobiology. 62. DOI: 10.13102/Sociobiology.V62I2.300-320  0.446
2015 Ward PS, Brady SG, Fisher BL, Schultz TR. The evolution of myrmicine ants: Phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Systematic Entomology. 40: 61-81. DOI: 10.1111/Syen.12090  0.647
2015 Blaimer BB, Brady SG, Schultz TR, Fisher BL. Functional and phylogenetic approaches reveal the evolution of diversity in a hyper diverse biota Ecography. DOI: 10.1111/Ecog.01370  0.782
2015 Rabeling C, Schultz TR, Bacci M, Bollazzi M. Acromyrmex charruanus: a new inquiline social parasite species of leaf-cutting ants Insectes Sociaux. 62: 335-349. DOI: 10.1007/S00040-015-0406-6  0.458
2014 Rabeling C, Schultz TR, Pierce NE, Bacci M. A social parasite evolved reproductive isolation from its fungus-growing ant host in sympatry. Current Biology : Cb. 24: 2047-52. PMID 25155509 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2014.07.048  0.415
2014 Masiulionis VE, Rabeling C, De Fine Licht HH, Schultz T, Bacci M, Bezerra CM, Pagnocca FC. A Brazilian population of the asexual fungus-growing ant Mycocepurus smithii (Formicidae, Myrmicinae, Attini) cultivates fungal symbionts with gongylidia-like structures. Plos One. 9: e103800. PMID 25101899 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0103800  0.519
2014 Brady SG, Fisher BL, Schultz TR, Ward PS. The rise of army ants and their relatives: diversification of specialized predatory doryline ants. Bmc Evolutionary Biology. 14: 93. PMID 24886136 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-14-93  0.711
2013 Jesovnik A, Sosa-Calvo J, Lopes CT, Vasconcelos HL, Schultz TR. Nest architecture, fungus gardens, queen, males and larvae of the fungus-growing ant Mycetagroicus inflatus Brandão & Mayhé-Nunes. Insectes Sociaux. 60: 531-542. PMID 24273337 DOI: 10.1007/S00040-013-0320-8  0.564
2013 Sosa-Calvo J, Schultz TR, Brandão CR, Klingenberg C, Feitosa RM, Rabeling C, Bacci M, Lopes CT, Vasconcelos HL. Cyatta abscondita: taxonomy, evolution, and natural history of a new fungus-farming ant genus from Brazil. Plos One. 8: e80498. PMID 24260403 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0080498  0.804
2012 Rey O, Estoup A, Vonshak M, Loiseau A, Blanchet S, Calcaterra L, Chifflet L, Rossi JP, Kergoat GJ, Foucaud J, Orivel J, Leponce M, Schultz T, Facon B. Where do adaptive shifts occur during invasion? A multidisciplinary approach to unravelling cold adaptation in a tropical ant species invading the Mediterranean area. Ecology Letters. 15: 1266-75. PMID 22906215 DOI: 10.1111/J.1461-0248.2012.01849.X  0.396
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  0.713
2012 Adams RM, Jones TH, Jeter AW, De Fine Licht HH, Schultz TR, Nash DR. A comparative study of exocrine gland chemistry in Trachymyrmex and Sericomyrmex fungus-growing ants Biochemical Systematics and Ecology. 40: 91-97. DOI: 10.1016/J.Bse.2011.10.011  0.511
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  0.63
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  0.805
2010 Ward PS, Brady SG, Fisher BL, Schultz TR. Phylogeny and biogeography of dolichoderine ants: effects of data partitioning and relict taxa on historical inference. Systematic Biology. 59: 342-62. PMID 20525640 DOI: 10.1093/Sysbio/Syq012  0.683
2010 Sosa-Calvo J, Schultz TR. Three Remarkable New Fungus-Growing Ant Species of the Genus Myrmicocrypta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), With a Reassessment of the Characters That Define the Genus and Its Position Within the Attini Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 103: 181-195. DOI: 10.1603/An09108  0.487
2008 Schultz TR, Brady SG. Major evolutionary transitions in ant agriculture. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 105: 5435-40. PMID 18362345 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0711024105  0.563
2007 Taerum SJ, Cafaro MJ, Little AE, Schultz TR, Currie CR. Low host-pathogen specificity in the leaf-cutting ant-microbe symbiosis. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 274: 1971-8. PMID 17550881 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2007.0431  0.442
2006 Lapolla JS, Schultz TR, Kjer KM, Bischoff JF. Phylogenetic position of the ant genus Acropyga Roger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and the evolution of trophophoresy. Insect Systematics & Evolution. 37: 197-212. PMID 18084637 DOI: 10.1163/187631206788831083  0.539
2006 Brady SG, Schultz TR, Fisher BL, Ward PS. Evaluating alternative hypotheses for the early evolution and diversification of ants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 103: 18172-7. PMID 17079492 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0605858103  0.68
2006 LaPolla JS, Suman T, Sosa-Calvo J, Schultz TR. Leaf litter ant diversity in Guyana Biodiversity and Conservation. 16: 491-510. DOI: 10.1007/S10531-005-6229-4  0.496
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  0.59
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  0.733
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  0.706
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  0.643
2003 Schultz TR. SYSTEMATICS: Hyperdiversity Up Close Science. 300: 57-58. DOI: 10.1126/Science.1084090  0.448
2002 Villesen P, Murakami T, Schultz TR, Boomsma JJ. Identifying the transition between single and multiple mating of queens in fungus-growing ants. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 269: 1541-8. PMID 12184823 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2002.2044  0.435
2002 Sallum MAM, Schultz TR, Foster PG, Aronstein K, Wirtz RA, Wilkerson RC. Phylogeny of Anophelinae (Diptera: Culicidae) based on nuclear ribosomal and mitochondrial DNA sequences Systematic Entomology. 27: 361-382. DOI: 10.1046/J.1365-3113.2002.00182.X  0.462
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  0.71
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  0.701
2001 Artiss T, Schultz TR, Polhemus DA, Simon C. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the dragonfly genera Libellula, Ladona, and Plathemis (Odonata: Libellulidae) based on mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I and 16S rRNA sequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 18: 348-61. PMID 11277629 DOI: 10.1006/Mpev.2000.0867  0.491
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  0.656
2000 Schultz TR. In search of ant ancestors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 97: 14028-9. PMID 11106367 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.011513798  0.561
2000 Sallum MAM, Schultz TR, Wilkerson RC. Phylogeny of Anophelinae (Diptera Culicidae) Based on Morphological Characters Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 93: 745-775. DOI: 10.1603/0013-8746(2000)093[0745:Poadcb]2.0.Co;2  0.552
1999 Schultz TR. Ants, plants and antibiotics Nature. 398: 747-748. DOI: 10.1038/19619  0.381
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  0.72
1998 Wetterer JK, Schultz TR, Meier R. Phylogeny of fungus-growing ants (Tribe Attini) based on mtDNA sequence and morphology. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 9: 42-7. PMID 9479692 DOI: 10.1006/Mpev.1997.0466  0.391
1998 Schultz T, Bekkevold D, Boomsma J. Acromyrmex insinuator new species: an incipient social parasite of fungus-growing ants Insectes Sociaux. 45: 457-471. DOI: 10.1007/S000400050101  0.446
1997 Engel MS, Schultz TR. Phylogeny and Behavior in Honey Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 90: 43-53. DOI: 10.1093/Aesa/90.1.43  0.471
1996 Schultz TR, Cocroft RB, Churchill GA. THE RECONSTRUCTION OF ANCESTRAL CHARACTER STATES. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 50: 504-511. PMID 28568917 DOI: 10.1111/J.1558-5646.1996.Tb03863.X  0.353
1995 SCHULTZ TR, MEIER R. A phylogenetic analysis of the fungus-growing ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Attini) based on morphological characters of the larvae Systematic Entomology. 20: 337-370. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-3113.1995.Tb00100.X  0.586
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  0.695
1994 Hinkle G, Wetterer JK, Schultz TR, Sogin ML. Phylogeny of the attine ant fungi based on analysis of small subunit ribosomal RNA gene sequences. Science (New York, N.Y.). 266: 1695-7. PMID 7992052 DOI: 10.1126/Science.7992052  0.416
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