Dr Jon N Seal

  • University of Texas at Tyler
  • Faculty Member, Life Sciences
  • United States

My co-authors include

Dr. Michael Kaspari
Dr Jon N Seal
Dr Jonathan Zvi Shik

My Publications

Symbiont-Mediated Host-Parasite Dynamics in a Fungus-Gardening Ant

  • Microbial Ecology
  • December 2017

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

  • Journal of Insect Physiology
  • April 2017

Bioturbation by the Fungus-Gardening Ant, Trachymyrmex septentrionalis

  • PLoS ONE
  • July 2016

Specificity and stability in an obligate, vertically transmitted symbiosis: An experime...

  • January 2016

Gone to Texas: phylogeography of twoTrachymyrmex(Hymenoptera: Formicidae) species along...

  • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • February 2015

Metabolism and the Rise of Fungus Cultivation by Ants

  • The American Naturalist
  • September 2014

Ant-fungus species combinations engineer physiological activity of fungus gardens

  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • May 2014

Instability of novel ant-fungal associations constrains horizontal exchange of fungal s...

  • Evolutionary Ecology
  • August 2013

Sex at the margins: parthenogenesis vs. facultative and obligate sex in a Neotropical ant

  • Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • November 2012

Fungus-gardening ants prefer native fungal species: do ants control their crops?

  • Behavioral Ecology
  • September 2012

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  • Annals of the Entomological Society of America
  • January 2012

Phylogeography of the parthenogenic ant Platythyrea punctata: highly successful coloniz...

  • Journal of Biogeography
  • January 2011

Distribution of the fungus-gardening ant (Trachymyrmex septentrionalis) during and afte...

  • Insect Conservation and Diversity
  • May 2010

Scaling of body weight and fat content in fungus-gardening ant queens: does this explai...

  • Insectes Sociaux
  • February 2009

Food limitation in the fungus-gardening ant,Trachymyrmex septentrionalis

  • Ecological Entomology
  • October 2008

Co-evolution and the superorganism: switching cultivars does not alter the performance ...

  • Functional Ecology
  • October 2007

Energetics of newly-mated queens and colony founding in the fungus-gardening ants Cypho...

  • Physiological Entomology
  • March 2007

Complexity in an obligate mutualism: do fungus-gardening ants know what makes their gar...

  • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • January 2007

Colony Productivity of the Fungus-Gardening Ant <I>Trachymyrmex septentrionalis</I> (Hy...

  • Annals of the Entomological Society of America
  • July 2006