Jonathan Z. Shik

Jonathan Z. Shik

Associate Professor


  1. 2020
  2. Published

    The evolution of multicellular complexity: the role of relatedness and environmental constraints

    Fisher, Roberta May, Shik, Jonathan Z. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2020, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 287, 1931, 8 p., 20192963.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Using Nutritional Geometry to Explore How Social Insects Navigate Nutritional Landscapes

    Crumiere, A. J. J., Stephenson, C. J., Nagel, M. & Shik, Jonathan Z., 2020, In: Insects. 11, 1, 14 p., 53.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  4. 2021
  5. 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

  6. 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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  7. 2022
  8. 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.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Male ant reproductive investment in a seasonal wet tropical forest: Consequences of future climate change

    Donoso, D. A., Basset, Y., Shik, Jonathan Z., Forrister, D. L., Uquillas, A., Salazar-Méndez, Y., Arizala, S., Polanco, P., Beckett, S., Diego Dominguez, G. & Barrios, H., 2022, In: PLoS ONE. 17, 3 , 13 p., e0266222.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Nutritional challenges of feeding a mutualist: Testing for a nutrient–toxin tradeoff in fungus-farming leafcutter ants

    Crumière, A. J. J., Mallett, S., Michelsen, Anders, Rinnan, Riikka & Shik, Jonathan Z., 2022, In: Ecology. 103, 6, 12 p., e3684.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  11. 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

  12. 2023
  13. Published

    Ecological strategies of (pl)ants: Towards a world-wide worker economic spectrum for ants

    Gibb, H., Bishop, T. R., Leahy, L., Parr, C. L., Lessard, J., Sanders, N. J., Shik, Jonathan Z., Ibarra-Isassi, J., Narendra, A., Dunn, R. R. & Wright, I. J., 2023, In: Functional Ecology. 37, 1, 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  14. 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

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