Jacobus J. Boomsma

Jacobus J. Boomsma

Professor


  1. Published

    Prudent sperm use by leaf-cutter ant queens

    Beckers, Susanne den Boer, Baer, B., Dreier, S. A. J., Aron, S., Nash, David Richard & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2009, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. 276, 1675, p. 3945-3953 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Quantifying honey bee mating range and isolation in semi-isolated valleys by DNA microsatellite paternity analysis

    Jensen, Annette Bruun, Palmer, K. A., Chaline, N., Raine, N. E., Tofilski, A., Martin, S. J., Pedersen, B. V., Boomsma, Jacobus J. & Ratnieks, F. L. W., 2005, In: Conservation Genetics. 6, Vol. 6, no. 4, p. 527-537

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Queen mating frequency and relatedness in young Atta sexdens colonies

    Fjerdingstad, E. J. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2000, In: Insectes Sociaux. 47, p. 354-356

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  4. 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

  5. Published

    Queen-worker caste ratio depends on colony size in the pharaoh ant (Monomorium pharaonis)

    Schmidt, A. M., Linksvayer, T. A., Boomsma, Jacobus J. & Pedersen, Jes Søe, 2011, In: Insectes Sociaux. 58, 2, p. 139–144 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Queens of the inquiline social parasite Acromyrmex insinuator can join nest-founding queens of its host, the leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex echinatior

    Howe, Jack, Schiøtt, M. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2021, In: Insectes Sociaux. 68, 2-3, p. 255-260 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Random sperm use and genetic effects on worker caste fate in Atta colombica leaf-cutting ants

    Holman, L., Stürup, M., Trontti, K. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2011, In: Molecular Ecology. 20, 23, p. 5092-5102 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Rapid shifts in Atta cephalotes fungus-garden enzyme activity after a change in fungal substrate (Attini, Formicidae)

    Kooij, P. W., Schiøtt, M., Boomsma, Jacobus J. & de Fine Licht, Henrik Hjarvard, 2011, In: Insectes Sociaux. 58, 2, p. 145-151 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Rare extra-pair fertilizations in the semi-colonially breeding linnet Carduelis cannabina

    Bønløkke-Pedersen, J., Drachmann, J., Frydenberg, J. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2002, In: Journal of Avian Biology. 33, p. 203-206

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  10. 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

  11. Published

    Reconstructing eight decades of genetic variation in an isolated Danish population of the large blue butterfly Maculinea arion

    Ugelvig, Line Vej, Nielsen, P. S., Boomsma, Jacobus J. & Nash, David Richard, 2011, In: B M C Evolutionary Biology. 11, p. 201 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    Reconstructing the functions of endosymbiotic Mollicutes in fungus-growing ants

    Sapountzis, P., Zhukova, M., Shik, Jonathan Z., Schiøtt, M. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2018, In: eLife. 7, p. 1-31 e39209.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  13. Published

    Reconstructing the relatedness of cooperatively breeding queens in the Panamanian leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex echinatior (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

    Nehring, V., Dijkstra, M. B., Sumner, S., Hughes, W. O. H. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2018, In: Myrmecological News. 27, p. 33-45

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  14. Published

    Reduced biological control and enhanced chemical pest management in the evolution of fungus farming in ants

    Fernández-Marín, H., Zimmerman, J. K., Nash, David Richard, Boomsma, Jacobus J. & Wcislo, W. T., 2009, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. 276, 1665, p. 2263-9 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  15. Published

    Regulation and specificity of antifungal metapleural gland secretion in leaf-cutting ants

    Yek, S. H., Nash, David Richard, Jensen, Annette Bruun & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2012, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 279, 1745, p. 4215-4222 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  16. Published

    Relaxed selection underlies genome erosion in socially parasitic ant species

    Schrader, Lukas, Pan, H., Bollazzi, M., Schiøtt, M., Larabee, F. J., Bi, X., Deng, Y., KU, thw266, Boomsma, Jacobus J. & Rabeling, C., 2021, In: Nature Communications. 12, 13 p., 2918.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  17. Published

    Reproduction and dispersal in an ant-associated root aphid community

    Ivens, A. B. F., Kronauer, D. J. C., Pen, I., Weissing, F. J. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2012, In: Molecular Ecology. 21, 17, p. 4257-4269 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  18. Published

    Reproduction and hybrid load in all-hybrid populations of Rana esculenta water frogs in Denmark

    Christiansen, D. G., Fog, K., Pedersen, B. V. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2005, In: Evolution. 59, 6, p. 1348-1361

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  19. Published

    Reproductive alliances and posthumous fitness enhancement in male ants

    Sundström, L. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2000, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. 267, p. 1439-1444

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  20. Published

    Rethinking crop-disease management in fungus-growing ants

    Boomsma, Jacobus J. & Aanen, D. K., 2009, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America. 106, 42, p. 17611-2 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  21. Published

    Rival seminal fluid induces enhanced sperm motility in a polyandrous ant

    Liberti, J., Baer, B. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2018, In: BMC Evolutionary Biology. 18, 12 p., 28.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  22. Published

    Rossiter H. Crozier (1943-2009)

    Boomsma, Jacobus J. & Pamilo, P., 2010, In: Science. 327, 5961, p. 45 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  23. Published

    STRICT LIFE-TIME MONOGAMY AS UNIVERSAL CONDITION FOR TRANSITIONS TOWARDS EUSOCIALITY

    Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2009.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearch

  24. Published

    Self-restraint and sterility in workers of Acromyrmex and Atta leafcutter ants

    Dijkstra, M. B., Nash, David Richard & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2005, In: Insectes Sociaux. 52, 1, p. 67-76

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  25. Published

    Seminal fluid compromises visual perception in honeybee queens reducing their survival during additional mating flights

    Liberti, J., Görner, J., Welch, M., Dosselli, R., Schiøtt, M., Ogawa, Y., Castleden, I., Hemmi, J. M., Baer-Imhoof, B., Boomsma, Jacobus J. & Baer, B., 2019, In: eLife. 8, 27 p., e45009.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  26. Published

    Seminal fluid enhances sperm viability in the leafcutter ant Atta colombica

    Beckers, Susanne den Boer, Boomsma, Jacobus J. & Baer, B., 2008, In: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 62, 12, p. 1843-1849 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  27. Published

    Seminal fluid mediates ejaculate competition in social insects

    Beckers, Susanne den Boer, Baer, B. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2010, In: Science. 327, 5972, p. 1506-1509 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  28. Published

    Sex allocation in fungus-growing ants: worker or queen control without symbiont-induced female bias

    Dijkstra, M. B. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2008, In: Oikos. 117, 12, p. 1892-1906

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  29. Published

    Sex allocation in the polydomous leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex balzani

    Ichinose, K., Forti, L. C., Pretto, D. R., Nachman, Gøsta Støger & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2007, In: Ecological Research. 22, p. 288-295 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  30. Published

    Sex ratio variation in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris

    Duchateau, M. J., Velthuis, H. H. W. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2004, In: Behavioral Ecology. Vol. 15, no. 1, p. 71-82

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  31. Published

    Sex-investment ratios in ants: has female bias been systematically overestimated?

    Boomsma, Jacobus J., 1989, In: American Naturalist. 133, 4, p. 517-532 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  32. Published

    Short independent lives and selection for maximal sperm survival make investment in immune defences unprofitable for leaf-cutting ant males

    Stürup, M., Baer, B. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2014, In: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 68, 6, p. 947-955 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  33. Published

    Six weeks in the life of a reproducing army ant colony: Male parentage and colony behaviour

    Kronauer, D. J. C., Ponce, E. R. R., Lattke, J. E. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., May 2007, In: Insectes Sociaux. 54, 2, p. 118-123 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  34. 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

  35. Published

    Snyltegedehamsen Pseudovespula adulterina (Buysson, 1905) ny for Danmark (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)

    Buhl, P. N., Boomsma, Jacobus J., Holter, P. & Pedersen, B. V., 2000, In: Ent. Meddr.. 68, p. 137

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearch

  36. Published

    Social insect genomes exhibit dramatic evolution in gene composition and regulation while preserving regulatory features linked to sociality

    Simola, D. F., Wissler, L., Donahue, G., Waterhouse, R. M., Helmkampf, M., Roux, J., Nygaard, S., Glastad, K. M., Hagen, D. E., Viljakainen, L., Reese, J. T., Hunt, B. G., Graur, D., Elhaik, E., Kriventseva, E. V., Wen, J., Parker, B. J., Cash, E., Privman, E., Childers, C. P. & 18 others, Muñoz-Torres, M. C., Boomsma, Jacobus J., Bornberg-Bauer, E., Currie, C. R., Elsik, C. G., Suen, G., Goodisman, M. A. D., Keller, L., Liebig, J., Rawls, A., Reinberg, D., Smith, C. D., Smith, C. R., Tsutsui, N., Wurm, Y., Zdobnov, E. M., Berger, S. L. & Gadau, J., 2013, In: Genome Research. 23, 8, p. 1235-1247 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  37. Published

    Social insect symbionts: evolution in homeostatic fortresses

    Hughes, D. P., Pierce, N. E. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2008, In: Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 23, 12, p. 672-677 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  38. Published

    Social insects: from selfish genes to self organisation and beyond

    Boomsma, Jacobus J. & Franks, N. R., 2006, In: Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 21, 6, p. 303-308

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  39. Published

    Social mutualism and social parasitism: conflict and cooperation at the family and species level

    Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2003, Genes, Behaviors and Evolution of Social Insects. Sapporo, Japan: Hokkaido University, p. 131-170

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

  40. Published

    Social structure and split sex ratios in the ant Pheidole pallidula

    Aron, S., Campan, E., Boomsma, Jacobus J. & Passera, L., 1999, In: Ethology Ecology & Evolution. 11, p. 209-227

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  41. Published

    Social-insect fungus farming

    Aanen, D. K. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2006, In: Current Biology. 16, 24, p. R1014-R1016

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  42. 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

  43. Published

    Specificity and stability of the Acromyrmex–Pseudonocardia symbiosis

    Andersen, Sandra Breum, Hansen, Lars Hestbjerg, Sapountzis, P., Sørensen, Søren Johannes & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2013, In: Molecular Ecology. 22, 16, p. 4307-4321 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  44. Published

    Specificity in chemical profiles of workers, brood and mutualistic fungi in Atta, Acromyrmex, and Sericomyrmex fungus-growing ants

    Richard, F., Poulsen, Michael, Drijfhout, F., Jones, G. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2007, In: Journal of Chemical Ecology. 33, 12, p. 2281-2292 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  45. Published

    Specificity of the mutualistic association between actinomycete bacteria and two sympatric species of Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants

    Poulsen, M., Cafaro, M., Boomsma, Jacobus J., Currie, C. R. & Poulsen, Michael, 1 Oct 2005, In: Molecular Ecology. 14, 11, p. 3597-3604 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  46. Published

    Sperm Storage Costs Determine Survival and Immunocompetence in Newly Mated Queens of the Leaf-Cutting Ant Atta colombica

    Baer-Imhoof, B., Beckers, Susanne den Boer, Boomsma, Jacobus J. & Baer, B., 2022, In: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 9, 10 p., 759183.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  47. Published

    Sperm length evolution in the fungus-growing ants

    Baer, B., Dijkstra, M. B., Mueller, U. G., Nash, David Richard & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2009, In: Behavioral Ecology. 20, 1, p. 38-45

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  48. Published

    Sperm length, sperm storage and mating system characteristics in bumblebees

    Baer, B., Schmid-Hempel, P., Høeg, Jens Thorvald & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2003, In: Insectes Sociaux. 50, 2, p. 101-108

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  49. Published

    Sperm mixing in the polyandrous leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex echinatior

    Stürup, M., Nash, David Richard, Hughes, W. O. H. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2014, In: Ecology and Evolution. 4, 18, p. 3571-3582 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  50. Published

    Sperm storage induces an immunity cost in ants

    Baer, B., Armitage, S. A. O. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2006, In: Nature. 441, 7095, p. 872-5 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

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