Eco-physiological tradeoffs with crop domestication: have farming ants cracked the code?

Project Information

ELEVATE

Grant agreement ID: 757810

DOI 10.3030/757810

Project closed

EC signature date 25 October 2017

Start date 1 February 2018

End date 31 January 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 427 741,00

EU contribution € 1 427 741,00

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KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET
Denmark

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (11)

Orthogonal protocols for DNA extraction from filamentous fungi

Author(s): Jonathan Zvi Shik; Michael Poulsen; Suzanne Schmidt; Benjamin Conlon
Published in: STAR Protocols, Issue 26661667, 2022, ISSN 2666-1667
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.xpro.2022.101126

Supplementary Information;Raw data tables from The evolution of multicellular complexity: the role of relatedness and environmental constraints

Author(s): R. M. Fisher; J. Z. Shik; J. J. Boomsma
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 14712954, 2020, ISSN 1471-2954
Publisher: The Royal Society Publishing
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.12625829

Nutritional challenges of feeding a mutualist:Testing for a nutrient–toxin tradeoff in fungus-farming leafcutter ants

Author(s): Antonin J. J. Crumière; Sophie Mallett; Anders Michelsen; Riikka Rinnan; Jonathan Z. Shik
Published in: Ecology, Issue 19399170, 2022, ISSN 1939-9170
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3684

The multidimensional nutritional niche of fungus-cultivar provisioning in free-ranging colonies of a neotropical leafcutter ant

Author(s): Antonin J.J. Crumière; Aidan James; Pol Lannes; Sophie Mallett; Anders Michelsen; Riikka Rinnan; Jonathan Z. Shik; Jonathan Z. Shik
Published in: Ecology Letters, Issue 14610248, 2021, Page(s) 2439-2451, ISSN 1461-0248
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/ele.13865

Male ant reproductive investment in a seasonal wet tropical forest: Consequences of future climate change

Author(s): David A. Donoso ,Yves Basset ,Jonathan Z. Shik,Dale L. Forrister,Adriana Uquillas,Yasmín Salazar-Méndez,Stephany Arizala,Pamela Polanco,Saul Beckett,Diego Dominguez G.,Héctor Barrios
Published in: PLoS One, Issue 19326203, 2022, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266222

Nutritional Dimensions of Invasive Success

Author(s): Jonathan Z. Shik, Audrey Dussutour
Published in: Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Issue 35/8, 2020, Page(s) 691-703, ISSN 0169-5347
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2020.03.009

Ecological strategies of (pl)ants: Towards a world‐wide worker economic spectrum for ants

Author(s): Heloise Gibb; Tom R. Bishop; Lily Leahy; Catherine L. Parr; Jean‐Philippe Lessard; Nathan J. Sanders; Jonathan Z. Shik; Javier Ibarra‐Isassi; Ajay Narendra; Robert R. Dunn; Ian J. Wright
Published in: Functional Ecology, Issue 02698463, 2022, ISSN 0269-8463
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.14135

A fungal symbiont converts provisioned cellulose into edible yield for its leafcutter ant farmers

Author(s): Conlon BH, O’Tuama D, Michelsen A, Crumière AJJ, Shik JZ
Published in: Biology Letters, Issue 1744957X, 2022, ISSN 1744-957X
Publisher: Royal Society Publishing
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2022.0022

The evolution of multicellular complexity: the role of relatedness and environmental constraints

Author(s): R. M. Fisher, J. Z. Shik, J. J. Boomsma
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 287/1931, 2020, Page(s) 20192963, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2963

Using Nutritional Geometry to Explore How Social Insects Navigate Nutritional Landscapes

Author(s): Antonin J. J. Crumière, Calum J. Stephenson, Manuel Nagel, Jonathan Z. Shik
Published in: Insects, Issue 11/1, 2020, Page(s) 53, ISSN 2075-4450
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/insects11010053

Nutritional niches reveal fundamental domestication trade-offs in fungus-farming ants

Author(s): Jonathan Z. Shik, Pepijn W. Kooij, David A. Donoso, Juan C. Santos, Ernesto B. Gomez, Mariana Franco, Antonin J. J. Crumière, Xavier Arnan, Jack Howe, William T. Wcislo, Jacobus J. Boomsma
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 5/1, 2021, Page(s) 122-134, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-020-01314-x

Other (1)

A domesticated fungal cultivar recycles its cytoplasmic contents as nutritional rewards for its leafcutter ant farmers

Author(s): Caio Ambrosio Leal-Dutra, Lok Man Yuen, Bruno Augusto Maciel Guedes, Marta Contreras-Serrano, Jonathan Zvi Shik
Published in: bioRxiv, 2022
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2022.03.03.482823