The global ant genomics Alliance (GAGA) JJ Boomsma, SG Brady, RR Dunn, J Gadau, J Heinze, L Keller, ... | 55 | 2017 |
Towards a nutritional ecology of invasive establishment: aphid mutualists provide better fuel for incipient Argentine ant colonies than insect prey JZ Shik, J Silverman Biological Invasions 15, 829-836, 2013 | 49 | 2013 |
Reconstructing the functions of endosymbiotic Mollicutes in fungus-growing ants P Sapountzis, M Zhukova, JZ Shik, M Schiott, JJ Boomsma Elife 7, e39209, 2018 | 46 | 2018 |
Nutrition mediates the expression of cultivar–farmer conflict in a fungus-growing ant JZ Shik, EB Gomez, PW Kooij, JC Santos, WT Wcislo, JJ Boomsma Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (36), 10121-10126, 2016 | 46 | 2016 |
More food, less habitat: how necromass and leaf litter decomposition combine to regulate a litter ant community JZ Shik, M Kaspari Ecological Entomology 35 (2), 158-165, 2010 | 42 | 2010 |
Metabolism and the rise of fungus cultivation by ants JZ Shik, JC Santos, JN Seal, A Kay, UG Mueller, M Kaspari The American Naturalist 184 (3), 364-373, 2014 | 41 | 2014 |
Ant colony size and the scaling of reproductive effort JZ Shik Functional Ecology, 674-681, 2008 | 41 | 2008 |
Evidence for locally adaptive metabolic rates among ant populations along an elevational gradient JZ Shik, X Arnan, CS Oms, X Cerdá, R Boulay Journal of Animal Ecology 88 (8), 1240-1249, 2019 | 40 | 2019 |
Towards a general life-history model of the superorganism: predicting the survival, growth and reproduction of ant societies JZ Shik, C Hou, A Kay, M Kaspari, JF Gillooly Biology Letters 8 (6), 1059-1062, 2012 | 38 | 2012 |
The metabolic costs of building ant colonies from variably sized subunits JZ Shik Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 64, 1981-1990, 2010 | 37 | 2010 |
Nutritional dimensions of invasive success JZ Shik, A Dussutour Trends in Ecology & Evolution 35 (8), 691-703, 2020 | 36 | 2020 |
Disentangling nutritional pathways linking leafcutter ants and their co‐evolved fungal symbionts using stable isotopes JZ Shik, W Rytter, X Arnan, A Michelsen Ecology 99 (9), 1999-2009, 2018 | 32 | 2018 |
Diet composition does not affect ant colony tempo AD Kay, JZ Shik, A Van Alst, KA Miller, M Kaspari Functional Ecology 26 (2), 317-323, 2012 | 31 | 2012 |
Scaling community structure: how bacteria, fungi, and ant taxocenes differentiate along a tropical forest floor M Kaspari, BS Stevenson, J Shik, JF Kerekes Ecology 91 (8), 2221-2226, 2010 | 31 | 2010 |
The evolution of multicellular complexity: the role of relatedness and environmental constraints RM Fisher, JZ Shik, JJ Boomsma Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287 (1931), 20192963, 2020 | 28 | 2020 |
Aphid honeydew provides a nutritionally balanced resource for incipient Argentine ant mutualists JZ Shik, AD Kay, J Silverman Animal Behaviour 95, 33-39, 2014 | 27 | 2014 |
Ecological strategies of (pl) ants: Towards a world‐wide worker economic spectrum for ants H Gibb, TR Bishop, L Leahy, CL Parr, JP Lessard, NJ Sanders, JZ Shik, ... Functional Ecology 37 (1), 13-25, 2023 | 24 | 2023 |
Nutritional niches reveal fundamental domestication trade-offs in fungus-farming ants JZ Shik, PW Kooij, DA Donoso, JC Santos, EB Gomez, M Franco, ... Nature ecology & evolution 5 (1), 122-134, 2021 | 23 | 2021 |
The life history continuum hypothesis links traits of male ants with life outside the nest JZ Shik, DA Donoso, M Kaspari Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 149 (2), 99-109, 2013 | 23 | 2013 |
Using nutritional geometry to define the fundamental macronutrient niche of the widespread invasive ant Monomorium pharaonis BA Krabbe, X Arnan, P Lannes, CE Bergstedt, RS Larsen, JS Pedersen, ... PLoS One 14 (6), e0218764, 2019 | 22 | 2019 |