Jacobus J. Boomsma

Jacobus J. Boomsma

Professor


  1. Published

    Let your enemy do the work: within-host interactions between two fungal parasites of leaf-cutting ants

    Hughes, W. O. H. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2004, In: Proceedings of The Royal Society London B: Biology Letters. Vol. 271, no. S3, p. 104-106

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Life Histories and Parasite Pressure Across the Major Groups of Social Insects

    Boomsma, Jacobus J., Schmid-Hempel, P. & Hughes, W. O. H., 2005, Insect Evolutionary Ecology. Fellowes, M., Holloway, G. & Rolff, J. (eds.). Wallingford Oxon, UK & Cambridge MA, USA: CABI Publishing, p. 139-175

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  3. Published

    Lifetime Commitment between Social Insect Families and Their Fungal Cultivars Complicates Comparisons with Human Farming

    Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2022, The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects. Schultz, T. R., Gawne, R. & Peregrine, P. N. (eds.). MIT Press, 13 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Lifetime monogamy and the evolution of eusociality

    Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2009, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. 364, 1533, p. 3191-207 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Limitations to the Association of Risk of Airway Disease with Removal of Adenoids and Tonsils in Children - Reply

    Byars, Sean Geoffrey, Stearns, S. C. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2018, In: JAMA Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. 144, 12, p. 1188-1189

    Research output: Contribution to journalComment/debateResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Low genetic variation in muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) from western Greenland using microsatellites

    Holm, L. E., Forchhammer, M. C. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 1999, In: Molecular Ecology. 8, p. 675-679

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Male parentage in army ants

    Kronauer, D. J. C., Schöning, C. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2006, In: Molecular Ecology. 15, 4, p. 1147-51 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Male reproductive investment and queen mating-frequency in fungus-growing ants

    Baer, B. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2004, In: Behavioral Ecology. Vol. 15, no. 3, p. 426-432

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Mate guarding in the Linnet Carduelis cannabina

    Drachmann, J., Komdeur, J. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2000, In: Bird Study. 47, p. 238-241

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Mating biology of the leaf-cutting ants Atta colombica and A. cephalotes

    Baer, B. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2006, In: Journal of Morphology. 267, 10, p. 1165-71 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    Mating, hybridisation and introgression in Lasius ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

    Van der Have, T., Pedersen, Jes Søe & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2011, In: Myrmecological News. 15, p. 109–115 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    Metapleural gland secretion of the leaf-cutter ant Acromyrmex octospinosus: New compounds and their functional significance

    Ortius-Lechner, D., Maile, R., Morgan, E. D. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2000, In: Journal of Chemical Ecology. Vol. 26 no. 7, p. 1667-1683

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  13. Published

    Microsatellite markers for the driver ant Dorylus (Anomma) molestus

    Kronauer, D. J. C., Boomsma, Jacobus J. & Gadau, J., 2004, In: Molecular Ecology Notes. Vol. 4, issue 2, p. 289-290

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  14. Published

    Microsatellite markers for the large blue butterflies Maculinea nausithous and Maculinea alcon (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) and their amplification in other Maculinea species

    Zeisset, I., Damm Als, T., Settele, J. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2005, In: Molecular Ecology Notes. 5, 1, p. 165-168

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  15. Published

    Microsatellite primers for fungus-growing ants

    Villesen, P., Gertsch, P. J. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2002, In: Molecular Ecology Notes. 2, p. 320-322

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  16. Published

    Monogamous sperm storage and permanent worker sterility in a long-lived ambrosia beetle

    Smith, S. M., Kent, D. S., Boomsma, Jacobus J. & Stow, A. J., 2018, In: Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2, 6, p. 1009-1018

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  17. Published

    Monophagous leaf‐mining larvae of Stigmella (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae) on birch: patterns and differentiation in exploitation of the host

    Boomsma, Jacobus J., Timmermans, H., Cörvers, C. P. M. & Kabout, J., Sep 1987, In: Ecography. 10, 3, p. 206-218 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  18. Published

    Multiple mating and facultative polygyny in the Panamanian ant Acromyrmex echinatior

    Bekkevold, D., Frydenberg, J. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 1999, In: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 46, p. 103-109

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  19. Published

    Multiple paternity in social Hymenoptera: estimating the effective mate number in single-double mating populations

    Pedersen, Jes Søe & Boomsma, Jacobus J., Apr 1999, In: Molecular Ecology. 8, 4, p. 577-587

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  20. Published

    Multiple paternity, relatedness and genetic diversity in Acromyrmex leafcutter ants

    Boomsma, Jacobus J., Fjerdingstad, E. J. & Frydenberg, J., 1999, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. 266, p. 249-254

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  21. Published

    Multiple queens means fewer mates

    Kronauer, D. J. C. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 4 Sep 2007, In: Current Biology. 17, 17, p. R753-R755

    Research output: Contribution to journalLetterResearchpeer-review

  22. Published

    Multiple reproductive strategies in a tropical hover wasp

    Fanelli, D., Boomsma, Jacobus J. & Turillazzi, S., 2005, In: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 58, 2, p. 190-199

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  23. Published

    Muscling out malaria

    Hughes, D. P. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2006, In: Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 21, 10, p. 533-534

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  24. Published

    Mutualistic bacteria and a possible trade-off between alternative defence mechanisms in Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants

    Poulsen, Michael, Bot, A. N. M., Currie, C. R. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2002, In: Insectes Sociaux. 49, 1, p. 15-19 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  25. Published

    Mutualistic fungi control crop diversity in fungus-growing ants

    Poulsen, Michael & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2005, In: Science. 307, 5710, p. 741-744 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  26. Published

    Nature's Oracle The Life and Work of W. D. Hamilton

    Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2013, In: Science. 340, 6129, p. 145-146 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearchpeer-review

  27. Published

    Nice to kin and nasty to non-kin: revisiting Hamilton's early insights on eusociality

    Boomsma, Jacobus J. & d'Ettorre, P., 2013, In: Biology Letters. 9, 6, 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  28. Published

    Nine novel microsatellite markers for the army ant Simopelta pergandei (subfamily Ponerinae)

    Kronauer, D. J. C., Boomsma, Jacobus J. & Pierce, N. E., 2011, In: Conservation Genetics Resources. 3, 1, p. 61-63 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  29. Published

    No benefit in diversity? The effect of genetic variation on survival and disease resistance in a polygynous social insect

    Schmidt, A. M., Linksvayer, T. A., Boomsma, Jacobus J. & Pedersen, Jes Søe, 2011, In: Ecological Entomology. 36, 6, p. 751–759 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  30. Published

    Novel fungal disease in complex leaf-cutting ant societies

    Hughes, D. P., Evans, H. C., Hywel-Jones, N., Boomsma, Jacobus J. & Armitage, S. A. O., 2009, In: Ecological Entomology. 34, 2, p. 214-220

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  31. 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

  32. 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

  33. Published

    Old soldiers never die ....

    Boomsma, Jacobus J. & Nygaard, S., 2012, In: Genome Biology. 13, 2, 3 p., 144.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  34. Published

    On the production ecology of Lasius niger ( Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in successive coastal dune valleys ( Lasius flavus).

    Boomsma, Jacobus J., Van Der Lee, G. A. & Van Der Have, T. M., 1982, In: Journal of Animal Ecology. 51, 3, p. 975-991 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  35. Published

    Only full-sibling families evolved eusociality

    Boomsma, Jacobus J., Beekman, M., Cornwallis, C. K., Griffin, A. S., Holman, L., Hughes, W. O. H., Keller, L., Oldroyd, B. P. & Ratnieks, F. L. W., 2011, In: Nature. 471, 7339, p. E4-5; author reply E9-10 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  36. Published

    Opposite risk patterns for autism and schizophrenia are associated with normal variation in birth size: phenotypic support for hypothesized diametric gene-dosage effects

    Byars, Sean Geoffrey, Stearns, S. C. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2014, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 281, 1794, 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  37. Published

    Pandora infections in Formica ants

    Hughes, D. P., Eilenberg, Jørgen, Boomsma, Jacobus J. & Jensen, Annette Bruun, 2009.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearch

  38. Published

    Parent-offspring conflict and the persistence of pregnancy-induced hypertension in modern humans

    Hartsteen, B. H., Byars, Sean Geoffrey, Lykke, J. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2013, In: P L o S One. 8, 2, 9 p., e56821.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  39. Published

    Partial incompatibility between ants and symbiotic fungi in two sympatric species of Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants

    Bot, A. N. M., Rehner, S. A. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2001, In: Evolution. 55, p. 1980-1991

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  40. Published

    Patterns of interaction specificity of fungus-growing termites and Termitomyces symbionts in South Africa

    Aanen, D. K., Ros, V. I. D., de Fine Licht, Henrik Hjarvard, Mitchell, J., de Beer, Z. W., Slippers, B., Rouland-Lefèvre, C. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2007, In: BMC Evolutionary Biology. 7, p. 115

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  41. Published

    Patterns of male parentage in the fungus-growing ants

    Villesen, P. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2003, In: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. Vol. 53, no. 4, p. 246-253

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  42. Published

    Phylogenomic analysis and metabolic role reconstruction of mutualistic Rhizobiales hindgut symbionts of Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants

    Zhukova, M., Sapountzis, P., Schiott, M. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2022, In: FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 98, 9, 13 p., fiac084.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  43. Published

    Phylogeography and cryptic speciation in the Myrmica scabrinodis NYLANDER, 1846 species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), and their conservation implications

    Ebsen, J. R., Boomsma, Jacobus J. & Nash, David Richard, 2019, In: Insect Conservation and Diversity. 12, 6, p. 467-480 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  44. 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

  45. Published

    Population genetic signatures of diffuse co-evolution between leaf-cutting ants and their cultivar fungi

    Mikheyev, A. S., Mueller, U. G. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., Jan 2007, In: Molecular Ecology. 16, 1, p. 209-216 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  46. Published

    Population structure of a large blue butterfly and its specialist parasitoid in a fragmented landscape

    Anton, C., Zeisset, I., Musche, M., Durka, W., Boomsma, Jacobus J. & Settele, J., Sep 2007, In: Molecular Ecology. 16, 18, p. 3828-3838 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  47. Published

    Positive association of queen number and queen mating frequency in Myrmica ants: a challenge to the genetic variability hypothesis

    Pedersen, Jes Søe & Boomsma, Jacobus J., Mar 1999, In: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 45, 3-4, p. 185-193

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  48. Published

    Presumptive horizontal symbiont transmission in the fungus-growing termite Macrotermes natalensis

    de Fine Licht, Henrik Hjarvard, Boomsma, Jacobus J. & Aanen, D. K., 2006, In: Molecular Ecology. 15, 11, p. 3131-3138

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  49. Published

    Protein-level interactions as mediators of sexual conflict in ants

    Dosselli, R., Grassl, J., Beckers, Susanne den Boer, Kratz, M., Moran, J. M., Boomsma, Jacobus J. & Baer, B., 2019, In: Molecular and Cellular Proteomics. 18, Suppl. 1, p. S34-S45

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  50. Published

    Proteomics reveals synergy between biomass degrading enzymes and inorganic Fenton chemistry in leaf-cutting ant colonies

    Schiøtt, M. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2021, In: eLife. 10, 21 p., e61816.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

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