Soil temperature, digging behaviour, and the adaptive value of nest depth in South American species of Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants M Bollazzi, J Kronenbitter, F Roces Oecologia 158, 165-175, 2008 | 149 | 2008 |
Thermal preference for fungus culturing and brood location by workers of the thatching grass-cutting ant Acromyrmex heyeri M Bollazzi, F Roces Insectes Sociaux 49, 153-157, 2002 | 138 | 2002 |
To build or not to build: circulating dry air organizes collective building for climate control in the leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex ambiguus M Bollazzi, F Roces Animal Behaviour 74 (5), 1349-1355, 2007 | 98 | 2007 |
Ventilation of the giant nests of Atta leaf-cutting ants: does underground circulating air enter the fungus chambers? M Bollazzi, LC Forti, F Roces Insectes Sociaux 59, 487-498, 2012 | 72 | 2012 |
Biogeography of mutualistic fungi cultivated by leafcutter ants UG Mueller, HD Ishak, SM Bruschi, CC Smith, JJ Herman, SE Solomon, ... Molecular ecology 26 (24), 6921-6937, 2017 | 65 | 2017 |
Information needs at the beginning of foraging: grass-cutting ants trade off load size for a faster return to the nest M Bollazzi, F Roces PloS one 6 (3), e17667, 2011 | 63 | 2011 |
Leaf-cutting ant workers (Acromyrmex heyeri) trade off nest thermoregulation for humidity control M Bollazzi, F Roces Journal of Ethology 28, 399-403, 2010 | 58 | 2010 |
The thermoregulatory function of thatched nests in the South American grass-cutting ant,Acromyrmex heyeri M Bollazzi, F Roces Journal of Insect Science 10 (1), 137, 2010 | 55 | 2010 |
Control of nest water losses through building behavior in leaf-cutting ants (Acromyrmex heyeri) M Bollazzi, F Roces Insectes sociaux 57, 267-273, 2010 | 47 | 2010 |
Acromyrmex charruanus: a new inquiline social parasite species of leaf-cutting ants C Rabeling, TR Schultz, M Bacci, M Bollazzi Insectes Sociaux 62, 335-349, 2015 | 35 | 2015 |
Relaxed selection underlies genome erosion in socially parasitic ant species L Schrader, H Pan, M Bollazzi, M Schiøtt, FJ Larabee, X Bi, Y Deng, ... Nature Communications 12 (1), 2918, 2021 | 34 | 2021 |
Carbon dioxide sensing in an obligate insect-fungus symbiosis: CO2 preferences of leaf-cutting ants to rear their mutualistic fungus D Römer, M Bollazzi, F Roces PLoS One 12 (4), e0174597, 2017 | 33 | 2017 |
14 Information Transfer and the Organization of Foraging in Grass-and Leaf-Cutting Ants F Roces, M Bollazzi Food exploitation by social insects: ecological, behavioral, and theoretical …, 2009 | 29 | 2009 |
Landscape genomics of an obligate mutualism: Concordant and discordant population structures between the leafcutter ant Atta texana and its two main fungal … CC Smith, JN Weber, AS Mikheyev, F Roces, M Bollazzi, K Kellner, ... Molecular Ecology 28 (11), 2831-2845, 2019 | 23 | 2019 |
Recurring adaptive introgression of a supergene variant that determines social organization E Stolle, R Pracana, F López-Osorio, MK Priebe, GL Hernández, ... Nature Communications 13 (1), 1180, 2022 | 21 | 2022 |
Efficiency and soil contamination during underground application of insecticides: control of leaf-cutting ants with thermal foggers M Bollazzi, LC Forti, S Moreira, F Roces Journal of pest science 87, 181-189, 2014 | 17 | 2014 |
Carbon dioxide sensing in the social context: Leaf-cutting ants prefer elevated CO2 levels to tend their brood D Römer, M Bollazzi, F Roces Journal of Insect Physiology 108, 40-47, 2018 | 15 | 2018 |
First record of the eucalypt gall-wasp Leptocybe invasa (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) from Uruguay C Jorge, G Martínez, D Gómez, M Bollazzi Revista Bosque 37 (3), 631-636, 2016 | 15 | 2016 |
Ritualized aggressive behavior reveals distinct social structures in native and introduced range tawny crazy ants EG LeBrun, RM Plowes, PJ Folgarait, M Bollazzi, LE Gilbert PLoS One 14 (11), e0225597, 2019 | 12 | 2019 |
Underground nest building: the effect of CO2 on digging rates, soil transport and choice of a digging site in leaf-cutting ants D Römer, F Halboth, M Bollazzi, F Roces Insectes Sociaux 65, 305-313, 2018 | 12 | 2018 |