Jonathan Z. Shik

Jonathan Z. Shik

Associate Professor


  1. Published

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

    Conlon, B. H., O'Tuama, D., Michelsen, Anders, Crumière, A. J. J. & Shik, Jonathan Z., 2022, In: Biology Letters. 18, 4, 6 p., 20220022.

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  2. Published

    Reciprocal nutritional provisioning between leafcutter ants and their fungal cultivar mediates performance of symbiotic farming systems

    Bolander, M., Andersen, J. E., Conlon, B. H., Arnan, X., Michelsen, Anders & Shik, Jonathan Z., 2023, In: Functional Ecology. 37, 12, p. 3079-3090 12 p.

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  3. Published

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

    Crumière, A. J. J., James, A., Lannes, P., Mallett, S., Michelsen, Anders, Rinnan, Riikka & Shik, Jonathan Z., 2021, In: Ecology Letters. 24, 11, p. 2439-2451 13 p.

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  4. 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.

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  5. 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

  6. 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

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  7. Diet composition does not affect ant colony tempo.

    Kay, A. D., Shik, Jonathan Z., Van Alst, A., Miller, K. A. & Kaspari, M., 2012, In: Functional Ecology. 26, 2, p. 317-323

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  8. Published

    Orthogonal protocols for DNA extraction from filamentous fungi

    Conlon, B. H., Schmidt, Suzanne, Poulsen, Michael & Shik, Jonathan Z., 2022, In: STAR Protocols. 3, 1, 10 p., 101126.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  9. Ant colony size and the scaling of reproductive effort

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

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  10. 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

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