Jacobus J. Boomsma

Jacobus J. Boomsma

Professor


  1. 2014
  2. Published

    Symbiotic adaptation in the fungal cultivar of leaf-cutting ants

    de Fine Licht, Henrik Hjarvard, Boomsma, Jacobus J. & Tunlid, A., 2014, In: Nature Communications. 5, 10 p., 5675.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    The evolution of multiqueen breeding in eusocial lineages with permanent physically differentiated castes

    Boomsma, Jacobus J., Huszár, D. B. & Pedersen, Jes Søe, 2014, In: Animal Behaviour. 92, p. 241-252 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Variable interaction specificity and symbiont performance in Panamanian Trachymyrmex and Sericomyrmex fungus-growing ants

    de Fine Licht, Henrik Hjarvard & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2014, In: B M C Evolutionary Biology. 14, 22 p., 244.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  5. 2015
  6. Published

    Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants have simple gut microbiota with nitrogen-fixing potential

    Sapountzis, P., Zhukova, M., Hansen, Lars Hestbjerg, Sørensen, Søren Johannes, Schiøtt, M. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2015, In: Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 81, 16, p. 5527-5537 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    A genomic comparison of two termites with different social complexity

    Korb, J., Poulsen, Michael, Hu, H., Li, C., Boomsma, Jacobus J., KU, thw266 & Liebig, J., 2015, In: Frontiers in Genetics. 6, 12 p., 9.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Ant sperm storage organs do not have phenoloxidase constitutive immune activity

    Dávila, F., Cherasse, S., Boomsma, Jacobus J. & Aron, S., 2015, In: Journal of Insect Physiology. 78, p. 9-14 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Bacterial symbiont sharing in Megalomyrmex social parasites and their fungus-growing ant hosts

    Liberti, J., Sapountzis, P., Hansen, Lars Hestbjerg, Sørensen, Søren Johannes, Adams, R. M. M. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2015, In: Molecular Ecology. 24, 12, p. 3151-3169 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Evolutionarily advanced ant farmers rear polyploid fungal crops

    Kooij, P. W., Aanen, D. K., Schiøtt, M. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2015, In: Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 28, 11, p. 1911-1924 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    Functional role of phenylacetic acid from metapleural gland secretions in controlling fungal pathogens in evolutionarily derived leaf-cutting ants

    Fernández-Marín, H., Nash, David Richard, Higginbotham, S., Estrada, C., van Zweden, J. S., D'Ettorre, P., Wcislo, W. T. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2015, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 282, 1807, 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    Integration strategies of a leaf-cutting ant social parasite

    Nehring, V., Dani, F. R., Turillazzi, S., Boomsma, Jacobus J. & D'Ettorre, P., 2015, In: Animal Behaviour. 108, p. 55-65 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  13. Published

    Interaction specificity between leaf-cutting ants and vertically transmitted Pseudonocardia bacteria

    Andersen, Sandra Breum, Yek, S. H., Nash, David Richard & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2015, In: BMC Evolutionary Biology. 15, 13 p., 27.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  14. Published

    Jacobus (Koos) Boomsma

    Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2015, In: Current Biology. 25, 13, p. R532-R534 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalComment/debateResearch

  15. Published

    Policing and punishment across the domains of social evolution

    Singh, M. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2015, In: Oikos. 124, 8, p. 971-982 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  16. Published

    Somatic incompatibility and genetic structure of fungal crops in sympatric Atta colombica and Acromyrmex echinatior leaf-cutting ants

    Kooij, P. W., Poulsen, Michael, Schiøtt, M. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2015, In: Fungal Ecology. 18, p. 10-17 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  17. Published

    The ejaculatory biology of leafcutter ants

    Beckers, Susanne den Boer, Stürup, M., Boomsma, Jacobus J. & Baer, B., 2015, In: Journal of Insect Physiology. 74, p. 56-62 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  18. 2016
  19. Published

    Ant mediated redistribution of a xyloglucanase enzyme in fungus gardens of Acromyrmex echinatior

    Kooij, P. W., Pullens, J. W. M., Boomsma, Jacobus J. & Schiøtt, M., 2016, In: BMC Microbiology. 16, 9 p., 81.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  20. Published

    Clonal yeast biofilms can reap competitive advantages through cell differentiation without being obligatorily multicellular

    Regenberg, Birgitte, Hanghøj, Kristian Ebbesen, Andersen, K. S. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2016, In: Royal Society of London. Proceedings B. Biological Sciences. 283, 1842, 8 p., 20161303.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  21. Published

    Fifty years of illumination about the natural levels of adaptation

    Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2016, In: Current Biology. 26, 24, p. R1250-R1255 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalComment/debateResearchpeer-review

  22. 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

  23. Published

    Queen reproductive tract secretions enhance sperm motility in ants

    Liberti, J., Baer, B. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2016, In: Biology Letters. 12, 11, 5 p., 20160722.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  24. Published

    Reciprocal genomic evolution in the ant-fungus agricultural symbiosis

    Nygaard, S., Hu, H., Li, C., Schiøtt, M., Chen, Z., Yang, Z., Xie, Q., Ma, C., Deng, Y., Dikow, R. B., Rabeling, C., Nash, David Richard, Wcislo, W. T., Brady, S. G., Schultz, T. R., KU, thw266 & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2016, In: Nature Communications. 7, 9 p., 12233.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  25. Published

    Slowing them down will make them lose: a role for attine ant crop fungus in defending pupae against infections?

    Armitage, S. A. O., Fernández-Marín, H., Boomsma, Jacobus J. & Wcislo, W. T., 2016, In: Journal of Animal Ecology. 85, 5, p. 1210-1221 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  26. Published

    Tachykinin expression levels correlate with caste-specific aggression in workers of the leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex echinatior

    Howe, Jack, Schiøtt, M. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2016, In: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 4, 55, 12 p., 55.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  27. Published

    When every sperm is sacred: the emergence and decline of superorganismal chimeras

    Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2016, In: Functional Ecology. 30, 4, p. 504-505 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  28. Published

    Genome analysis of two Pseudonocardia phylotypes associated with Acromyrmex leafcutter ants reveals their biosynthetic potential

    Holmes, N. A., Innocent, T. M., Heine, D., Al Bassam, M., Worsley, S. F., Trottmann, F., Patrick, E. H., Yu, D. W., Murrell, J. C., Schiøtt, M., Wilkinson, B., Boomsma, Jacobus J. & Hutchings, M. I., 26 Dec 2016, In: Frontiers in Microbiology. 7, 16 p., 2073.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

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