Jonathan Z. Shik

Jonathan Z. Shik

Associate Professor


  1. Published

    Can interaction specificity in the fungus-farming termite symbiosis be explained by nutritional requirements of the fungal crop?

    da Costa, R. R., Vreeburg, S. M. E., Shik, Jonathan Z., Aanen, D. K. & Poulsen, Michael, 2019, In: Fungal Ecology. 38, p. 54-61

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Evidence for locally adaptive metabolic rates among ant populations along an elevational gradient

    Shik, Jonathan Z., Arnan, X., Oms, C. S., Cerdá, X. & Boulay, R., 2019, In: Journal of Animal Ecology. 88, 8, p. 1240-1249 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Diet specialization in an extreme omnivore: nutritional regulation in glucose-averse German cockroaches

    Shik, Jonathan Z., Schal, C. & Silverman, J., 2014, In: Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 27, 10, p. 2096-2105 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Metabolism and the rise of fungus cultivation by ants

    Shik, Jonathan Z., Santos, J. C., Seal, J. N., Kay, A., Mueller, U. G. & Kaspari, M., 2014, In: American Naturalist. 184, 3, p. 364-373 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Aphid honeydew provides a nutritionally balanced resource for incipient Argentine ant mutualists

    Shik, Jonathan Z., Kay, A. D. & Silverman, J., 2014, In: Animal Behaviour. 95, p. 33-39 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  6. The Effect of Human Activity on Ant Species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Richness at the Mont St. Hilaire Biosphere Reserve, Quebec

    Shik, Jonathan Z., Francoeur, A. & Buddle, C. M., 2005, In: The Canadian Field-Naturalist. 119, 1, p. 38-42

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  7. Lifespan in male ants linked to mating syndrome

    Shik, Jonathan Z. & Kaspari, M., 2009, In: Insectes Sociaux. 56, 2, p. 131-134

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  8. The metabolic costs of building ant colonies from variably sized subunits

    Shik, Jonathan Z., 2010, In: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 64, 12, p. 1981-1990

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

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

    Shik, Jonathan Z., Consilio, A., Kaae, T. & Adams, R. M. M., Aug 2018, In: Ecological Entomology. 43, 4, p. 440-446

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  10. Ant colony size and the scaling of reproductive effort

    Shik, Jonathan Z., 2008, In: Functional Ecology. 22, 4, p. 674-681

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  11. A life history continuum in the males of a Neotropical ant assemblage: refuting the sperm vessel hypothesis

    Shik, Jonathan Z., Flatt, D., Kay, A. & Kaspari, M., 2012, In: Naturwissenschaften. 99, 3, p. 191-197

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

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

    Shik, Jonathan Z., Rytter, W., Arnan, X. & Michelsen, Anders, 2018, In: Ecology. 99, 9, p. 1999-2009

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  13. Toward a general life history model of the superorganism: predicting the survival, growth, and reproduction of ant societies

    Shik, Jonathan Z., Hou, C., Kay, A., Kaspari, M. & Gillooly, J. F., 2012, In: Biology Letters. 8, 6, p. 1059-1062

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  14. Published

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

    Shik, Jonathan Z., Kooij, P. W., Donoso, D. A., Santos, J. C., Gomez, E. B., Franco, M., Crumière, A. J. J., Arnan, X., Howe, Jack, Wcislo, W. T. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2021, In: Nature Ecology & Evolution. 5, 1, p. 122-134

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  15. Published

    Nutritional Dimensions of Invasive Success

    Shik, Jonathan Z. & Dussutour, A., 2020, In: Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 35, 8, p. 691-703 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearchpeer-review

  16. More food, less habitat: how necromass and leaf litter decomposition combine to regulate a litter ant community

    Shik, Jonathan Z. & Kaspari, M., 2010, In: Ecological Entomology. 35, 2, p. 158-165

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  17. Published

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

    Shik, Jonathan Z., Gomez, E. B., Kooij, P. W., Santos, J. C., Wcislo, W. T. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2016, In: National Academy of Sciences. Proceedings. 113, 36, p. 10121-10126 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

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

    Shik, Jonathan Z. & Silverman, J., 2013, In: Biological Invasions. 15, 4, p. 829-836

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  19. Preliminary assessment of metabolic costs of the nematode Myrmeconema neotropicum on its host, the tropical ant Cephalotes atratus

    Shik, Jonathan Z., Kaspari, M. & Yanoviak, S. P., 2011, In: Journal of Parasitology. 97, 5, p. 958-959

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  20. The life history continuum hypothesis links traits of male ants with life outside the nest.

    Shik, Jonathan Z., Donoso, D. A. & Kaspari, M., 2013, In: Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. 149, 2, p. 99-109

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  21. Published

    Reconstructing the functions of endosymbiotic Mollicutes in fungus-growing ants

    Sapountzis, P., Zhukova, M., Shik, Jonathan Z., Schiøtt, M. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2018, In: eLife. 7, p. 1-31 e39209.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  22. Published

    Liquid foraging behaviour in leafcutting ants: the lunchbox hypothesis

    Rytter, W. & Shik, Jonathan Z., 2016, In: Animal Behaviour. 117, p. 179-186 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  23. Effect of scattered and discrete hydramethylnon bait placement on the Asian needle ant

    Rice, E. S., Shik, Jonathan Z. & Silverman, J., 2012, In: Journal of Economic Entomology. 105, 5, p. 1751-1757

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  24. Published

    Evidence that the domesticated fungus Leucoagaricus gongylophorus recycles its cytoplasmic contents as nutritional rewards to feed its leafcutter ant farmers

    A. Leal-Dutra, Caio, Yuen, L. M., Guedes, B. A. M., Contreras Serrano, Marta, Marques, P. E. & Shik, Jonathan Z., 2023, In: IMA Fungus. 14, 1, 13 p., 19.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  25. Published
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