Jonathan Z. Shik

Jonathan Z. Shik

Associate Professor


  1. 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

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  2. 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

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  3. 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

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  4. 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

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  5. 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.

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  6. 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

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  7. 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.

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  8. 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

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  9. 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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  10. 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

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