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Ted R. Schultz
Researcher at National Museum of Natural History
Publications - 97
Citations - 8323
Ted R. Schultz is an academic researcher from National Museum of Natural History. The author has contributed to research in topics: Fungus-growing ants & Phylogenetic tree. The author has an hindex of 42, co-authored 92 publications receiving 7570 citations. Previous affiliations of Ted R. Schultz include Aarhus University & Smithsonian Institution.
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Major evolutionary transitions in ant agriculture
Ted R. Schultz,Seán G. Brady +1 more
TL;DR: This work reconstructs the major evolutionary transitions that produced the five distinct agricultural systems of the fungus-growing ants, the most well studied of the nonhuman agriculturalists, with reference to the first fossil-calibrated, multiple-gene, molecular phylogeny that incorporates the full range of taxonomic diversity within the fungi-growing ant tribe Attini.
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Evaluating alternative hypotheses for the early evolution and diversification of ants.
TL;DR: The largest ant molecular phylogenetic data set published to date is generated, containing ≈6 kb of DNA sequence from 162 species representing all 20 ant subfamilies and 10 aculeate outgroup families, and casts strong doubt on the existence of a poneroid clade as currently defined.
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The Evolution of Agriculture in Insects
Ulrich G. Mueller,Nicole M. Gerardo,Nicole M. Gerardo,Nicole M. Gerardo,Duur K. Aanen,Diana L. Six,Ted R. Schultz +6 more
TL;DR: This work has shown that insect farmers are remarkably similar, suggesting convergent evolution, and that these insect farmers manage, in addition to the primary cultivars, an array of “auxiliary” microbes providing disease suppression...
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The Evolution of Agriculture in Ants
TL;DR: These patterns indicate that fungus-growing ants succeeded at domesticating multiple cultivars, that the ants are capable of switching to novel cultivar, that single ant species farm a diversity of cultivars and that cultivars are shared occasionally between distantly related ant species, probably by lateral transfer between ant colonies.