Using Nutritional Geometry to Explore How Social Insects Navigate Nutritional Landscapes

Using nutritional geometry to define the fundamental macronutrient niche of the widespread invasive ant Monomorium pharaonis

(2019) Birla A. Krabbe et al.   PLoS One

optoPAD, a closed-loop optogenetics system to study the circuit basis of feeding behaviors

(2019) José-Maria Moreira et al.   eLife

Interspecies Comparative Analyses Reveal Distinct Carbohydrate-Responsive Systems among Drosophila Species

(2019) Kaori Watanabe et al.   Cell Reports

The role of chemical signalling in maintenance of the fungus garden by leaf-cutting ants

(2018) P. W. C. Green et al.   CHEMOECOLOGY

The farming ant Sericomyrmex amabilis nutritionally manages its fungal symbiont and its social parasite

(2018) Jonathan Z. Shik et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Herbivorous turtle ants obtain essential nutrients from a conserved nitrogen-recycling gut microbiome

(2018) Yi Hu et al.   Nature Communications

Disentangling nutritional pathways linking leafcutter ants and their co-evolved fungal symbionts using stable isotopes

(2018) Jonathan Z. Shik et al.   ECOLOGY

Reconstructing the functions of endosymbiotic Mollicutes in fungus-growing ants

(2018) Panagiotis Sapountzis et al.   eLife

Exploring Interactions between the Gut Microbiota and Social Behavior through Nutrition

(2018) Cristian Pasquaretta et al.   Genes

Partner abundance controls mutualism stability and the pace of morphological change over geologic time

(2017) Guillaume Chomicki et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Electrolyte transport pathways induced in the midgut epithelium ofDrosophila melanogasterlarvae by commensal gut microbiota and pathogens

(2016) Shubha R. Shanbhag et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON

Partner choice through concealed floral sugar rewards evolved with the specialization of ant-plant mutualisms

(2016) Guillaume Chomicki et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Nutrition mediates the expression of cultivar–farmer conflict in a fungus-growing ant

(2016) Jonathan Z. Shik et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Multidimensional Nutritional Niche

(2016) Gabriel E. Machovsky-Capuska et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Reciprocal genomic evolution in the ant–fungus agricultural symbiosis

(2016) Sanne Nygaard et al.   Nature Communications

Acromyrmex Leaf-Cutting Ants Have Simple Gut Microbiota with Nitrogen-Fixing Potential

(2015) Panagiotis Sapountzis et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Flesh flies regulate the consumption of 3 macronutrients to maximize lifespan and egg production

(2015) Jesse Hawley et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Nutritional ecology beyond the individual: a conceptual framework for integrating nutrition and social interactions

(2015) Mathieu Lihoreau et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A novel intracellular mutualistic bacterium in the invasive ant Cardiocondyla obscurior

(2015) Antonia Klein et al.   ISME Journal

Plant Resources and Colony Growth in an Invasive Ant: The Importance of Honeydew-Producing Hemiptera in Carbohydrate Transfer Across Trophic Levels

(2015) Ken R. Helms et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Metabolism and the Rise of Fungus Cultivation by Ants

(2014) Jonathan Z. Shik et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

High Diversity and Low Specificity of Chaetothyrialean Fungi in Carton Galleries in a Neotropical Ant–Plant Association

(2014) Maximilian Nepel et al.   PLoS One

A carbohydrate-rich diet increases social immunity in ants

(2014) A. D. Kay et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Symbiotic adaptations in the fungal cultivar of leaf-cutting ants

(2014) Henrik H. De Fine Licht et al.   Nature Communications

TESTING THE MUSEUM VERSUS CRADLE TROPICAL BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY HYPOTHESIS: PHYLOGENY, DIVERSIFICATION, AND ANCESTRAL BIOGEOGRAPHIC RANGE EVOLUTION OF THE ANTS

(2013) Corrie S. Moreau et al.   EVOLUTION

Exclusive rewards in mutualisms: ant proteases and plant protease inhibitors create a lock-key system to protectAcaciafood bodies from exploitation

(2013) Domancar Orona-Tamayo et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

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

Towards a nutritional ecology of invasive establishment: aphid mutualists provide better fuel for incipient Argentine ant colonies than insect prey

(2012) Jonathan Z. Shik et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Taste preference for amino acids is dependent on internal nutritional state in Drosophila melanogaster

(2012) N. Toshima et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Plant-ants use symbiotic fungi as a food source: new insight into the nutritional ecology of ant-plant interactions

(2012) R. Blatrix et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Drosophila Evaluates and Learns the Nutritional Value of Sugars

(2011) Michiko Fujita et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Bacterial symbionts as mediators of ecologically important traits of insect hosts

(2011) HEIKE FELDHAAR   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Toward a quantitative nutritional ecology: the right-angled mixture triangle

(2011) David Raubenheimer   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Survival and growth of parasitic Maculinea alcon caterpillars (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) in laboratory nests of three Myrmica ant species

(2011) D. R. Nash et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Forage collection, substrate preparation, and diet composition in fungus-growing ants

(2010) HENRIK H. DE FINE LICHT et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Monoculture of Leafcutter Ant Gardens

(2010) Ulrich G. Mueller et al.   PLoS One

Ants defend aphids against lethal disease

(2009) C. Nielsen et al.   Biology Letters

A framework for evolutionary systems biology

(2009) Laurence Loewe   BMC Systems Biology

Common Sense about Taste: From Mammals to Insects

(2009) David A. Yarmolinsky et al.   CELL

Communal Nutrition in Ants

(2009) Audrey Dussutour et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A Review of Ant Cuticular Hydrocarbons

(2009) Stephen Martin et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

On ants, plants and fungi

(2009) Michael Poulsen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Ant-plants and fungi: a new threeway symbiosis

(2009) Emmanuel Defossez et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Species-Specific Seed Dispersal in an Obligate Ant-Plant Mutualism

(2009) Elsa Youngsteadt et al.   PLoS One

Bacterial gut symbionts are tightly linked with the evolution of herbivory in ants

(2009) Jacob A. Russell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Individual differences influence collective behaviour in social caterpillars

(2008) A. Dussutour et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Insect Herbivore Nutrient Regulation

(2008) Spencer T. Behmer   Annual Review of Entomology

Insects as hosts for mutualistic bacteria

(2008) H FELDHAAR et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Seed odor mediates an obligate ant-plant mutualism in Amazonian rainforests

(2008) E. Youngsteadt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Lifespan and reproduction in Drosophila: New insights from nutritional geometry

(2008) K. P. Lee et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA