Ted R. Schultz

Smithsonian Institution — United States

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior(117), Plant and animal studies(112), Insect and Pesticide Research(35), Animal Behavior and Reproduction(22), Fossil Insects in Amber(17)

Publications144 total

Carbon dioxide sequestration into biomineral armor by ants
2026
High-throughput phenomics of global ant biodiversity
2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Admixture between lineages of the tramp ant Technomyrmex albipes revealed by mitochondrial and ultra-conserved element sequencing
NeoBiota·2025Open Access
Digging into the evolutionary history of the fungus-growing-ant symbiont, Escovopsis (Hypocreaceae)
Communications Biology·2025Open Access
Ground Observations from the In Situ Collaborative Experiment for the Collection of Hail in the Plains
2025Open Access
Adaptive radiation and social evolution of the ants
Cell·2025· 29 citedOpen Access
Ant systematics: past, present, and future
Insect Systematics and Diversity·2025· 1 cited
Laboratory Environment Affects the Volatiles of Fungus Gardens in the Colonies of Fungus-farming Ants
Sociobiology·2025Open Access
Evolution of leafcutter ant myrmecophiles: Hamotus heidiae, a new symbiont of Acromyrmex colonies with undetectable hydrocarbons (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)
Insectes Sociaux·2024· 1 cited
How fungus-farming ants have nourished biology for 150 years
Nature·2024
The coevolution of fungus-ant agriculture
Science·2024· 29 citedOpen Access
Assembling the ant "Tree of Life" (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
2024· 14 citedOpen Access
Macroecological patterns of functional and phylogenetic diversity vary between ground and arboreal assemblages in Neotropical savanna ants
Ecography·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
The Adaptive Radiation and Social Evolution of the Ants
SSRN Electronic Journal·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Woody encroachment affects multiple dimensions of ant diversity in a neotropical savanna
Insect Conservation and Diversity·2023· 10 cited
Genomic diversification of the specialized parasite of the fungus-growing ant symbiosis
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2022· 13 citedOpen Access
Out of the temperate zone: A phylogenomic test of the biogeographical conservatism hypothesis in a contrarian clade of ants
Journal of Biogeography·2022· 26 cited
The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Fungus-Farming Ants
The MIT Press eBooks·2022· 11 citedOpen Access
Introduction
The MIT Press eBooks·2022Open Access
Agricultural and Proto-Agricultural Symbioses in Ants
The MIT Press eBooks·2022· 3 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Seán G. Brady(13), Ulrich G. Mueller(11), Jeffrey Sosa‐Calvo(9), Christian Rabeling(8), Brian L. Fisher(7), Philip S. Ward(7), Cameron R. Currie(6), Maurício Bacci(6), Stephen A. Rehner(5), Jacobus J. Boomsma(5), Ana Ješovnik(4), Heraldo L. Vasconcelos(4), Rachelle M. M. Adams(4), Ulrich G. Mueller(3), Richard C. Wilkerson(3), Michael W. Lloyd(3), Palle Villesen(3), Cauê T. Lopes(3), Donat Agosti(2), Jonathan Majer(2)