Jonathan Z. Shik

Jonathan Z. Shik

Associate Professor


  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  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.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  5. 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

  6. Published

    Extreme polygyny in the previously unstudied subtropical ant Temnothorax tuscaloosae with implications for the biogeographic study of the evolution of polygyny

    Guénard, B., Shik, Jonathan Z., Booher, D., Lubertazzi, D. & Alpert, G., 2016, In: Insectes Sociaux. 63, 4, p. 543-551 9 p.

    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. 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

  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

    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

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