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
MALE-BIASED DISPERSAL IN A FEMALE-DISPERSED SYMBIOSIS
October 2020
High diversity and multiple invasions to North America by fungi grown by the northern-m...
Fungal Ecology
April 2020
Development, characterization, and cross-amplification of polymorphic microsatellite ma...
BMC Research Notes
March 2020
Development, characterization, and cross-amplification of polymorphic microsatellite ma...
March 2020
Potential Distribution of Six North American Higher-Attine Fungus-Farming Ant (Hymenopt...
Journal of Insect Science
November 2019
Landscape genomics of an obligate mutualism: Concordant and discordant population struc...
Molecular Ecology
May 2019
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
To the Editor:
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