Publications of the Center of Social Evolution and Symbiosis
2002-2003

Publications in international peer-reviewed journals or bookss

Aanen, D.K., P. Eggleton, C. Rouland-Lefèvre, T. Guldberg-Frøslev, S. Rosendahl & J.J. Boomsma (2002) The evolution of fungus-growing termites and their mutualists. Proceedings of the National Academy of the United States of America 99, 14887-14892.

Als, T.D., D.R. Nash, & J.J. Boomsma (2002) Geographical variation in host-ant specificity of the parasitic butterfly Maculinea alcon in Denmark. Ecological Entomology 27, 403-414.

Anderson, C., J.J. Boomsma & J.J. Bartholdi III (2002) Task partitioning in insect societies: bucket brigades. Insectes Sociaux 49, 171-180.

Boomsma, J.J. and Nachman, G. (2002) Analysis of sex ratios in social insects. In: Hardy, I.C.W. (ed.) Sex ratios: concepts and research methods, p. 93-111. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK.

Bot, A.N.M., D. Ortius-Lechner, K. Finster, R. Maile and J.J. Boomsma (2002) Variable sensitivity of fungi and bacteria to compounds produced by the metapleural glands of leaf-cutting ants. Insectes Sociaux 49, 363-370.

Giraud* T., J.S. Pedersen* & L. Keller (2002) Evolution of supercolonies: the Argentine ants of southern Europe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 99: 6075–6079 [*author s tatement of equal contribution to the work].

Hughes, W.O.H., J. Eilenberg & J.J. Boomsma (2002) Trade-offs in group living: transmission and disease resistance in leaf-cutting ants. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B. 269, 1811- 1819.

Poulsen, M., A.N.M. Bot, C.R. Currie & J.J. Boomsma (2002) Mutualistic bacteria and a possible trade- off between alternative defence mechanisms in Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants. Insectes Sociaux 49, 15-19.

Poulsen, M., A.N.M. Bot, M.G. Nielsen & J.J. Boomsma (2002) Experimental evidence for the cost and hygienic significance of the antibiotic metapleural gland secretion in leaf-cutting ants. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 52, 151-157.

Schultz, T.R., S.A. Solomon, U.G. Mueller, P. Villesen, J.J. Boomsma, R.M.M. Adams & B. Norden (2002) Cryptic speciation in the fungus-growing ant Cyphomyrmex longiscapus Weber and Cyphomyrmex muelleri Schultz and Solomon, new species (Formicidae, Attini). Insectes Sociaux 49, 331-343.

Van Borm, S. & J.J. Boomsma (2002) Group-specific polymerase chain reaction amplification of SSU rRNA-encoding gene fragments from 12 microbial taxa. Molecular Ecology Notes 2, 356-359.

Van Borm, S., J. Billen & J.J. Boomsma (2002) The diversity of microorganisms associated with Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants. BioMed Central Evolutionary Biology 2002 2:9.

Van Borm, S., A. Buschinger, J.J. Boomsma & J. Billen (2002) Tetraponera ants have gut symbionts related to nitrogen-fixing root-nodule bacteria. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B. 269, 2023-2027.

Van der Hammen, T., J.S. Pedersen & J.J. Boomsma (2002) Convergent development of low relatedness supercolonies in Myrmica ants. Heredity 89, 83-89.

Villesen, P., P.J. Gertsch and J.J. Boomsma (2002) Microsatellite primers for fungus-growing ants. Molecular Ecology Notes 2, 320-322.

Villesen, P., T. Murakami, T.R. Schultz & J.J. Boomsma (2002) Unravelling the transition between single and multiple mating in attine ants. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B. 269, 1541-1548.

Baer, B, P. Schmid-Hempel, J.T. Høeg and J.J. Boomsma (2003) Sperm length, sperm storage and mating system characteristics in bumblebees. Insectes Sociaux 50, 101-108.

Boomsma, J.J. (2003) Social mutualism and social parasitism: conflict and cooperation at the family and species level. In: Kikuchi, T., Azuma, N. & S. Higashi (eds) Genes, Behavior and Evolution in Social Insects. Hokkaido University Press, pp. 131-170.

Boomsma, J.J., J. Nielsen, L. Sundström, N.J. Oldham, J. Tentschert, H.C. Petersen and E.D. Morgan (2003) Informational constraints on optimal sex allocation in ants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 100, 8799-8804.

Currie, C.R., A.N.M. Bot & J.J. Boomsma (2003) Experimental evidence of a tripartite mutualism: bacteria protect ant fungal gardens from specialized parasites. Oikos 101, 91-102.

Dijkstra, M.B. and J.J. Boomsma (2003) Gnamptogenys hartmani Wheeler (Ponerinae: Ectatommini): an agro predator of Trachymyrmex and Sericomyrmex fungus growing ants. Naturwissenschaften, published on line in December.

Hughes, W.O.H. and J.J. Boomsma (2003) Let your enemy do the work: within-host interactions between two fungal parasites of leaf-cutting ants. Biology Letters, published on line 12 November.

Hughes, W.O.H., S.R. Sumner, S. van Borm & J.J. Boomsma (2003). Worker caste polymorphism is genetically controlled in a leaf-cutting ant. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 100, 9394-9397.

Moilanen A., L. Sundström & J.S. Pedersen (2003) MATESOFT: a program for genetic analysis of mating systems. Version 1. Incl. dokumentation 47 pp. Lanceret 08.04.2003 og distribueret fra http://www.zi.ku.dk/popecol/personal/JSPedersen/MateSoft.htm

Ortius-Lechner, D., R. Maile, E.D. Morgan, H.C. Petersen and J.J. Boomsma (2003) Lack of patriline- specific differences in chemical composition of the metapleural gland secretion in Acromyrmex octospinosus. Insectes Sociaux 50, 113-119.

Poulsen, M., A.N.M. Bot, & J.J. Boomsma (2003). The effect of metapleural gland secretion on the growth of a mutualistic bacterium on the cuticle of leaf-cutting ants. Naturwissenschaften 90, 406-409.

Poulsen, M., A.N.M. Bot, C.R. Currie, M.G. Nielsen & J.J. Boomsma (2003) Within colony transmission and the cost of a mutualistic bacterium in the leaf-cutting ants Acromyrmex octospinosus. Functional Ecology 17, 260-269.

Reuter M., J.S. Pedersen & L. Keller (2003) Loss of Wolbachia infection during colonisation in the invasive Argentine ant Linepithema humile. Heredity, in press.

Sumner, S., D.R. Nash & J.J. Boomsma (2003). The adaptive significance of inquiline parasite workers. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B. 270, 1315-1322.

Sumner, S., W.O.H. Hughes & J.J. Boomsma (2003). Evidence for differential selection and potential adaptive evolution in an inquiline social parasite. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 54, 256- 263.

Van Borm, S., T. Wenseleers, J. Billen & J.J. Boomsma (2003) Cloning and sequencing of wsp encoding gene fragments reveals a diversity of co-infecting Wolbachia strains in Acromyrmex leafcutter ants. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 26, 102-109.

Villesen, P. & J.J. Boomsma (2003) Patterns of male parentage in the fungus-growing ants. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 53, 246-253.