Fungus-Growing Ants: Models for the Integrative Analysis of Cognition and Brain Evolution

Brood recognition and discrimination in ants

(2020) E. Schultner et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

How Do Leaf-Cutting Ants Recognize Antagonistic Microbes in Their Fungal Crops?

(2020) Aryel C. Goes et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

The neuroplasticity of division of labor: worker polymorphism, compound eye structure and brain organization in the leafcutter ant Atta cephalotes

(2020) Sara Arganda et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Brain evolution in social insects: advocating for the comparative approach

(2019) R. Keating Godfrey et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

The insect central complex and the neural basis of navigational strategies

(2019) Anna Honkanen et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

What is cognition?

(2019) Tim Bayne et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Whatever you want: Inconsistent results are the rule, not the exception, in the study of primate brain evolution

(2019) Andreas Wartel et al.   PLoS One

The molecular phylogenetics of Trachymyrmex Forel ants and their fungal cultivars provide insights into the origin and coevolutionary history of ‘higher‐attine’ ant agriculture

(2019) Scott E. Solomon et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Insects as models for studying the evolution of animal cognition

(2019) Meagan Simons et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Genetics in the Honey Bee: Achievements and Prospects toward the Functional Analysis of Molecular and Neural Mechanisms Underlying Social Behaviors

(2019) Hiroki Kohno et al.   Insects

Evolution, systematics, and natural history of a new genus of cryptobiotic fungus-growing ants

(2018) JEFFREY SOSA-CALVO et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Principles of Insect Path Integration

(2018) Stanley Heinze et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Social regulation of a rudimentary organ generates complex worker-caste systems in ants

(2018) Rajendhran Rajakumar et al.   NATURE

Towards reconstructing the ancestral brain gene-network regulating caste differentiation in ants

(2018) Bitao Qiu et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Why are there so many explanations for primate brain evolution?

(2017) R. I. M. Dunbar et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Deep evolutionary conservation of autism-related genes

(2017) Hagai Y. Shpigler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Deconstructing Superorganisms and Societies to Address Big Questions in Biology

(2017) Patrick Kennedy et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Accelerated evolution of developmentally biased genes in the tetraphenic ant Cardiocondyla obscurior

(2016) Lukas Schrader et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Brain size predicts problem-solving ability in mammalian carnivores

(2016) Sarah Benson-Amram et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The economic origins of ultrasociality

(2015) John Gowdy et al.   BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

Common genetic variants influence human subcortical brain structures

(2015) Derrek P. Hibar et al.   NATURE

Current progress in understanding the functions of the insect central complex

(2015) Jenny Aino Plath et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Measuring variation in cognition

(2014) C. Rowe et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Density of mushroom body synaptic complexes limits intraspecies brain miniaturization in highly polymorphic leaf-cutting ant workers

(2014) C. Groh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Caste-specific RNA editomes in the leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex echinatior

(2014) Qiye Li et al.   Nature Communications

Costs and benefits of evolving a larger brain: doubts over the evidence that large brains lead to better cognition

(2013) Susan D. Healy et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Evolution of Complex Higher Brain Centers and Behaviors: Behavioral Correlates of Mushroom Body Elaboration in Insects

(2013) Sarah M. Farris   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Gene expression patterns associated with caste and reproductive status in ants: worker-specific genes are more derived than queen-specific ones

(2013) B. Feldmeyer et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Caste-Specific Expression Patterns of Immune Response and Chemosensory Related Genes in the Leaf-Cutting Ant, Atta vollenweideri

(2013) Sarah I. Koch et al.   PLoS One

Differences in sNPF Receptor-Expressing Neurons in Brains of Fire Ant (Solenopsis invicta Buren) Worker Subcastes: Indicators for Division of Labor and Nutritional Status?

(2013) Paula Castillo et al.   PLoS One

Can endopolyploidy explain body size variation within and between castes in ants?

(2013) Daniel R. Scholes et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Evolution of brain size in class-based societies of fungus-growing ants (Attini)

(2012) Andre J. Riveros et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Epigenetics: The Making of Ant Castes

(2012) Alexandra Chittka et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Juvenile hormone levels reflect social opportunities in the facultatively eusocial sweat bee Megalopta genalis (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

(2012) Adam R. Smith et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Division of labor and structural plasticity in an extrinsic serotonergic mushroom body neuron in the ant Pheidole dentata

(2012) Ysabel Milton Giraldo et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS

Division of Labor in the Hyperdiverse Ant Genus Pheidole Is Associated with Distinct Subcaste- and Age-Related Patterns of Worker Brain Organization

(2012) Mario L. Muscedere et al.   PLoS One

Ancestral Developmental Potential Facilitates Parallel Evolution in Ants

(2012) R. Rajakumar et al.   SCIENCE

Genetic architecture supports mosaic brain evolution and independent brain–body size regulation

(2012) Reinmar Hager et al.   Nature Communications

An Exploration of the Social Brain Hypothesis in Insects

(2012) Mathieu Lihoreau et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

The Allometry of Brain Miniaturization in Ants

(2011) Marc A. Seid et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Just follow your nose: homing by olfactory cues in ants

(2011) Kathrin Steck   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Avoiding plants unsuitable for the symbiotic fungus: learning and long-term memory in leaf-cutting ants

(2010) N. Saverschek et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Simulated visual homing in desert ant natural environments: efficiency of skyline cues

(2010) Kai Basten et al.   BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS

Profiling by Image Registration Reveals Common Origin of Annelid Mushroom Bodies and Vertebrate Pallium

(2010) Raju Tomer et al.   CELL

Path Integration Provides a Scaffold for Landmark Learning in Desert Ants

(2010) Martin Müller et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Alarm pheromone processing in the ant brain: an evolutionary perspective

(2010) Makoto Mizunami   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Are Bigger Brains Better?

(2009) Lars Chittka et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Olfactory memory established during trophallaxis affects food search behaviour in ants

(2009) Y. Provecho et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Optimality in a partitioned task performed by social insects

(2008) M. Burd et al.   Biology Letters

Major evolutionary transitions in ant agriculture

(2008) T. R. Schultz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Minor workers have a major role in the maintenance of leafcutter ant pheromone trails

(2007) Sophie E.F. Evison et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR