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  1. Forage preference in two geographically co-occurring fungus gardening ants: A dietary DNA approach

    Article • PLOS One, December 2025, PLOS

    Dr Jon N Seal

  2. Forage preference in two geographically co-occurring fungus gardening ants: a dietary DNA approach

    Article • December 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Jon N Seal

  3. Phylogeography of the Imperiled Comanche Harvester Ant (Pogonomyrmex comanche)

    Article • April 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jon N Seal

  4. Environments and Hosts Structure the Bacterial Microbiomes of Fungus-Gardening Ants and their Symbiotic Fungus Gardens

    Article • Microbial Ecology, November 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jon N Seal

  5. Environments And Hosts Structure The Bacterial Microbiomes Of Fungus-Gardening Ants And Their Symbiotic Fungus Gardens.

    Article • March 2022, Research Square

    Dr Jon N Seal

  6. Cophylogenetic analyses of Trachymyrmex ant‐fungal specificity: “One to one with some exceptions”

    Article • Molecular Ecology, September 2021, Wiley

    Dr Jon N Seal

  7. COPHYLOGENETIC ANALYSES OF TRACHYMYRMEX ANT-FUNGAL SPECIFICITY: ‘ONE TO ONE WITH SOME EXCEPTIONS’

    Article • May 2021, Authorea, Inc.

    Dr Jon N Seal

  8. Male‐biased dispersal in a fungus‐gardening ant symbiosis

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, January 2021, Wiley

    Dr Jon N Seal

  9. MALE-BIASED DISPERSAL IN A FEMALE-DISPERSED SYMBIOSIS

    Article • October 2020, Authorea, Inc.

    Dr Jon N Seal

  10. High diversity and multiple invasions to North America by fungi grown by the northern-most Trachymyrmex and Mycetomoellerius ant species

    Article • Fungal Ecology, April 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Jon N Seal

  11. Development, characterization, and cross-amplification of polymorphic microsatellite markers for North American Trachymyrmex and Mycetomoellerius ants

    Article • BMC Research Notes, March 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jon N Seal

  12. Development, characterization, and cross-amplification of polymorphic microsatellite markers for North American Trachymyrmex and Mycetomoellerius ants

    Article • March 2020, Research Square

    Dr Jon N Seal

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

    Article • Journal of Insect Science, November 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Jon N Seal

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

    Article • Molecular Ecology, May 2019, Wiley

    Dr Jon N Seal

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

    Article • Microbial Ecology, December 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jon N Seal

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

    Article • Journal of Insect Physiology, April 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Jon N Seal

  17. Bioturbation by the Fungus-Gardening Ant, Trachymyrmex septentrionalis

    Article • PLOS One, July 2016, PLOS

    Dr Jon N Seal

  18. Specificity and stability in an obligate, vertically transmitted symbiosis: An experimental analysis

    Article • January 2016, Entomological Society of America

    Dr Jon N Seal

  19. Gone to Texas: phylogeography of twoTrachymyrmex(Hymenoptera: Formicidae) species along the southeastern coastal plain of North America

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, February 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Jon N Seal, Dr Jon N Seal

  20. Metabolism and the Rise of Fungus Cultivation by Ants

    Article • The American Naturalist, September 2014, University of Chicago Press

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

  21. Ant-fungus species combinations engineer physiological activity of fungus gardens

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, May 2014, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Jon N Seal, Dr Jon N Seal

  22. Instability of novel ant-fungal associations constrains horizontal exchange of fungal symbionts

    Article • Evolutionary Ecology, August 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jon N Seal, Dr Jon N Seal

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

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, November 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Jon N Seal, Dr Jon N Seal

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

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, September 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Jon N Seal, Dr Jon N Seal

  25. To the Editor:

    Article • Annals of the Entomological Society of America, January 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Jon N Seal

  26. Phylogeography of the parthenogenic ant Platythyrea punctata: highly successful colonization of the West Indies by a poor disperser

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, January 2011, Wiley

    Dr Jon N Seal, Dr Jon N Seal

  27. Distribution of the fungus‐gardening ant ( Trachymyrmex septentrionalis ) during and after a record drought

    Article • Insect Conservation and Diversity, April 2010, Wiley

    Dr Jon N Seal, Dr Jon N Seal

  28. Scaling of body weight and fat content in fungus-gardening ant queens: does this explain why leaf-cutting ants found claustrally?

    Article • Insectes Sociaux, February 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jon N Seal, Dr Jon N Seal

  29. Food limitation in the fungus‐gardening ant, Trachymyrmex septentrionalis

    Article • Ecological Entomology, September 2008, Wiley

    Dr Jon N Seal, Dr Jon N Seal

  30. Co-evolution and the superorganism: switching cultivars does not alter the performance of fungus-gardening ant colonies

    Article • Functional Ecology, October 2007, Wiley

    Dr Jon N Seal, Dr Jon N Seal

  31. Energetics of newly-mated queens and colony founding in the fungus-gardening ants Cyphomyrmex rimosus and Trachymyrmex septentrionalis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

    Article • Physiological Entomology, March 2007, Wiley

    Dr Jon N Seal, Dr Jon N Seal

  32. Complexity in an obligate mutualism: do fungus-gardening ants know what makes their garden grow?

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jon N Seal, Dr Jon N Seal

  33. Colony Productivity of the Fungus-Gardening Ant Trachymyrmex septentrionalis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in a Florida Pine Forest

    Article • Annals of the Entomological Society of America, July 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Jon N Seal, Dr Jon N Seal