Jonathan Z. Shik

Towards a general life-history model of the superorganism: predicting the survival, growth and reproduction of ant societies

Jonathan Z. Shik, Chen Hou, Adam D. Kay et al. · Biology Letters · 2012 · 76 citations · Full text

Biology, Insect Social Behavior, General Life-history Model +15

Reconstructing the functions of endosymbiotic Mollicutes in fungus-growing ants

Panagiotis Sapountzis, Mariya Zhukova, Jonathan Z. Shik et al. · eLife · 2018 · 53 citations · Full text

Biology, Mollicutes Strains, Draft Genomes +14

Towards a nutritional ecology of invasive establishment: aphid mutualists provide better fuel for incipient Argentine ant colonies than insect prey

Jonathan Z. Shik, Jules Silverman · Biological Invasions · 2012 · 48 citations

Biology, Aphid Mutualists, Engineering +7

Nutrition mediates the expression of cultivar–farmer conflict in a fungus-growing ant

Jonathan Z. Shik, Ernesto B. Gomez, Pepijn W. Kooij et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2016 · 47 citations · Full text

The evolution of multicellular complexity: the role of relatedness and environmental constraints

Roberta M. Fisher, Jonathan Z. Shik, Jacobus J. Boomsma · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2020 · 47 citations · Full text

Molecular Evolutionary Ecology, Engineering, Biological Evolution +16