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Brady, S.G., Litman, J., & Danforth, B.N. Rooting phylogenies using gene duplications: An empirical example from the bees (Apoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, in press.
Brady, S.G. 2011. Effects of fossil calibration uncertainty on divergence dating of ants and bees. American Entomologist 57:56-57. Droege, S., Rightmyer, M.G., Sheffield, C.S., & Brady, S.G. 2010. New synonymies in the bee genus Nomada from North America (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Zootaxa 2661:1-32.
Mehdiabadi, N. J. and Schultz, T. R. 2010. Natural history and phylogeny of the fungus-farming ants (Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Attini). Myrmecological News, 13: 37-55. (Invited Review)
Sosa-Calvo, J., T.R. Schultz, and J.S. LaPolla. 2010. A review of the dacetine ants of Guyana (Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 19(1): 12-43. Ward, P.S., S.G. Brady, B.L. Fisher, and T.R. Schultz. 2010. Phylogeny and biogeography of dolichoderine ants: Effects of data partitioning and relict taxa on historical inference. Systematic Biology. 59:342-362. Sosa-Calvo, J. and T.R. Schultz. 2010. Three remarkable new fungus-growing ant species of the genus Myrmicocrypta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a reassessment of the characters that define the genus and its position within the Attini. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Amer. 103(2): 181-195.Schultz, T. R. 2010. Ants in museums. In: Ant Ecology (L. Lach, C. Parr, and K. Abbott, eds.). Oxford University Press, New York.
Ward, P.S. and S. Brady. 2009. Rediscovery of the ant genus Amyrmex Kusnezov (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and its transfer from Dolichoderinae to Leptanilloidinae. Zootaxa 2063: 46-54. LaPolla, J.S. (2009) Taxonomic revision of the Southeast Asian ant genus Euprenolepis. Zootaxa, 2046:1-25.Sosa-Calvo, J., S. G. Brady, and T. R. Schultz. 2009. The gyne of the enigmatic fungus-farming ant species Mycetosoritis explicata. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 18: 113-120.
Azorsa, F. and J. Sosa-Calvo. 2008. Description of a remarkable new species of ant in the genus Daceton Perty (Formicidae: Dacetini) from South America. Zootaxa, 1749: 27-38. Bolton, B., J. Sosa-Calvo, F. Fernandez, and J.E. Lattke. 2008. New synonyms in neotropical Myrmicine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa, 1732: 61-64. LaPolla, J.S., C. Burwell, S.G. Brady and D.R. Miller. 2008. A new genus and species of scale (Hemiptera: Ortheziidae) associated with Acropyga myops (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 1946: 55-68. Schultz, T. R. and Brady, S. G. 2008 Major evlolutionary transitions in ant agriculture. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. 105:5435-5440. (Cover article) PNAS Early Edition version published 24 March 2008. (With accompanying "Commentary": U.G. Mueller and C. Rabeling. 2008. “A breakthrough innovation in animal evolution.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105: 5287-5288.)
Supporting Information: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/0711024105/DCSupplementalSchultz, T.R. and J. Sosa-Calvo. 2008. Ants of southern Guyana – A preliminary report (pp. 31-32) and Preliminary list of ant genera collected in the Konashen COCA, October 2006, Appendix 1 (p. 72). In A Rapid Biological Assessment of the Konashen Community Owned Conservation Area, Southern Guyana: RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment 51. (L. Alonso, J. McCullough, P. Naskrecki, E. Alexander, and H.E. Wright, eds.). Washington, DC: Conservation International. [Technical report.]
Sosa-Calvo, J. and J.T. Longino. 2008. Subfamily Proceratiinae. In: Systematics, Biogeography, and Conservation of the hunting ants of Colombia. Jimenez, E., Fernandez, F., Arias, T.M., and Lozano-Zambrano, F.H. (Eds.). 219-238 p. (In Spanish) [Book chapter.]
LaPolla, J.S., T. Suman, J. Sosa-Calvo, and T.R. Schultz. 2007. Leaf litter ants of Guyana. Biodiversity and Conservation 16: 491-510. Schultz, T.R. 2007. The fungus-growing ant genus Apterostigma in Dominican
amber. In: Advances in Ant Systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Homage to E.O. Wilson – 50 Years of Contributions (R.R. Snelling, B.L. Fisher, and P.S. Ward, Eds.). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80: 425-436.Sosa-Calvo, J. 2007. Ants of the leaf-litter of two plateaus in Eastern Suriname. 92-98. In: A Rapid Biological Assessment of the Lely and Nassau Plateaus, Suriname (with additional information on the Brownsberg Plateau). Alonso, L.E. and Mol, J.H. (Eds.) Rapid Assessment Program Bulletin of Biological Assessment 43. Conservation International. [Book chapter.]
Taerum, S.J., M.J. Cafaro, A.E.F. Little, T.R. Schultz, and C.R. Currie. 2007. Low host-pathogen specificity in the leaf-cutting ant-microbe symbiosis. Proceedings of the Royal Society (London), Series B, 274: 1971-1978.
Brady, S. G., T. R. Schultz, B. L. Fisher & P. S. Ward. 2006. Evaluating alternative hypotheses for the early
evolution and diversification of ants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103: 18172-18177. (With accompanying "Commentary": Ross H. Crozier. 2006. “Charting uncertainty about ant origins.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103: 18029-18030.)
Supplemental online material: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/0605858103/DC1LaPolla, J.S. and J.T. Longino. 2006. An Unusual Brachymyrmex from Costa Rica with implications for the phylogeny of the lasiine tribe group. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 108: 297-305.
LaPolla, J.S., T.R. Schultz, K.M. Kjer and J.F. Bischoff. 2006. Phylogenetic position of the ant genus Acropyga Roger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and the evolution of trophophoresy. Insect Systematics and Evolution 37: 197-212. LaPolla, J.S. and J. Sosa-Calvo. 2006. Review of the Ant Genus Rogeria (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Guyana. Zootaxa 1330: 59-68.Sosa-Calvo, J., S. O. Shatuuck, & T. R. Schultz. 2006. Dacetine ants of Panama: New records and description of a new species (Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Dacetini). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 108: 814-821.
LaPolla, J.S. and S.P. Cover. 2005. New species of Pheidole Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Guyana, with a list of species known from the country. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 131: 1-11.
LaPolla, J.S. 2005. Ancient Trophophoresy: A Fossil Acropyga (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Dominican Amber. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 131: 21-28.
Mueller, U. G, N. M. Gerardo, D. K. Aanen, D. L. Six, & T. R. Schultz. 2005. The evolution of agriculture in
insects. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 36: 563-595.
Schultz, T. R., U. G. Mueller, C. R. Currie, & S. A. Rehner. 2005. Reciprocal illumination: A comparison of agriculture in humans and ants. Pp. 149-190. In: Fernando Vega and Meredith Blackwell (eds.). Ecological and Evolutionary Advances in Insect-Fungal Associations. Oxford University Press, New York.
Sosa-Calvo, J. and D.F. Campos. 2005. First record of the family Heloridae (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea) for Colombia. Revista de la Sociedad Colombiana de Entomologia (SOCOLEN) 31: 233- 234 (In Spanish)
Ward, P. S., Brady, S. G., Fisher, B. L. & Schultz, T. R. 2005. Assembling the ant "Tree of Life" (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecologische Nachrichten 7: 87-90.
Solomon, S. E., U. G. Mueller, T. R. Schultz, C. R. Currie, S.L. Price, A. C. Oliveira da Silva-Pinhati, M. Bacci Jr., & H. L.Vasconcelos. 2004. Nesting biology of the fungus growing ants Mycetarotes Emery (Attini, Formicidae). Insectes Sociaux 51: 333-338. Villesen, P., U. G. Mueller, T. R. Schultz, R. M. M. Adams, & M. C. Bouck. 2004. Evolution of ant-cultivar
specialization and cultivar switching in Apterostigma fungus-growing ants. Evolution 58: 2252-2265.
Currie, C. R., B. Wong, A. E. Stuart, T. R. Schultz, S. A. Rehner, U. G. Mueller, G. H. Sung, J. W. Spatafora,
and N. A. Straus. 2003. Ancient tripartite coevolution in the attine ant-microbe symbiosis. Science 299: 386-388. (With accompanying "News" article: E. Pennisi. 2003. "On ant farm, a threesome co-evolves." Science 299: 325.)
Supplemental online material: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/299/5605/386/DC1
Price, S. L., T. Murakami, U. G. Mueller, T. R. Schultz, and C. R. Currie. 2003. Recent Findings in Fungus-Growing Ants: Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior of a Complex Microbial Symbosis. Pp. in: Genes, Behaviors, and Evolution of Social Insects (T. Kikuchi, N. Azuma, and S. Higashi, Eds.), Hokkaido University Press, Sapporo, Japan. [Book chapter.]
Schultz, T. R. 2003. "Hyperdiversity Up Close." Review of Pheidole in the New World by E.O. Wilson. Science 300: 57-58. [Book review.]Bang, R., T. R. Schultz, and R. DeSalle. 2002. Development, homology, and systematics. In: DeSalle, R., G. Giribet and W. Wheeler (eds.). Molecular Systematics and Evolution: Theory and Practice. Birkhauser, Basel.
Hoyt, Erich and T. R. Schultz (Editors). 2002. Insect Lives: Stories of Mystery and Romance From a Hidden World. (Trade paperback edition.) Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. [Book.]
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 Ants Cyphomyrmex longiscapus Weber and Cyphomyrmex muelleri Schultz and Solomon, new Species (Formicidae: Attini). Insectes Sociaux 49: 331-343. Vilesen, P., T. Murakami, T. R. Schultz, & J. J. Boomsma. 2002. Identifying the transition between single and multiple mating of queens in fungus-growing ants. Proceedings of the Royal Society (London), Series B
269: 1541-1548.
Artiss, T., T. R. Schultz, D. A. Polhemus, & C. Simon. 2001. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the dragonfly genera Libellula, Ladona and Plathemis (Odonata: Libellulidae) based on mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I and 16S rRNA sequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 18: 348-361.
Mueller, U. G., T. R. Schultz, C. R. Currie, R. M. M. Adams, & D. Malloch. 2001. The origin of the attine ant-fungus mutualism. Quarterly Review of Biology 76: 169-197. Sallum, M.A.M., T. R. Schultz, P. G. Foster, K. Aronstein, R. A. Wirtz, & R. C. Wilkerson. 2001. Phylogeny of Anophelinae (Diptera: Culicidae) based on mitochondrial and nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences. Systematic Entomology 27: 361-382.
Schultz, T. R., M. S. Engel, and J. S. Ascher. 2001. Evidence for the origin of eusociality in the corbiculate bees (Hymoptera: Apidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 74:10-16.
Schultz, T. R., R. B. Root, and T. Eisner. 2001. "William L. Brown, Jr.: June 1, 1922 - March 30, 1997." Memorial Statements, Cornell University Faculty 1996-97: 12-16. Ithaca, New York: Office of the Dean of the Faculty, Cornell University [Obituary.]
Adams, R. M. M., U. G. Mueller, T. R. Schultz, and B. Norden. 2000. Agro-predation: Usurpation of attine fungus gardens by Megalomyrmex ants. Naturwissenschaften 87: 549-554. Agosti, D., J. Majer, L. Alonso, and T. R. Schultz (Editors). 2000. Sampling Ground-dwelling Ants: Case Studies from the Worlds' Rain Forests. Perth, Australia: Curtin School of Environmental Biology Bulletin No. 18. 75 pp. [Edited volume.]Agosti, D., J. Majer, L. Alonso, and T. R. Schultz. 2000. The biodiversity challenge (Preface). Pp. xvii-xix in: Ants: Standard Methods for Measuring and Monitoring Biodiversity. (D. Agosti, J. Majer, L. Alonso, and T.R. Schultz, eds.). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. [Book preface.]
Agosti, D., J. Majer, L. Alonso, and T. R. Schultz (Editors). 2000. Ants: Standard Methods for Measuring and Monitoring Biodiversity. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. 280 pp. [Book.]
Sallum, M. A. M., T. R. Schultz, and R. C. Wilkerson. 2000. Phylogeny of Anophelinae (Diptera Culicidae) based on morphological characters. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 93: 745-775. Schultz, T. R. 2000. “In search of ant ancestors.” “Commentary.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 26:14028-14029. [Article.]Schultz, T. R. and L. E. Alonso. 2000. Glossary. Pp. 223-229 in: Ants: Standard Methods for Measuring and Monitoring Biodiversity. (D. Agosti, J. Majer, L. Alonso, and T.R. Schultz, eds.). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. [Book glossary.]
Schultz, T. R. and T. P. McGlynn. 2000. The interactions of ants with other organisms. Pp. 35-44 in: Ants: Standard Methods for Measuring and Monitoring Biodiversity. (D. Agosti, J. Majer, L. Alonso, and T.R. Schultz, eds.). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. [Book chapter.]
Hoyt, Erich and T. R. Schultz (Editors). 1999. Insect Lives, Stories of Mystery and Romance from a Hidden World. New York: John Wiley and Sons. [Book.]
Schultz, T. R. 1999. "Ants, Plants, and Antibiotics." "News and Views." Nature 398:747-748. [Article.] Schultz, T. R. and G. A. Churchill. 1999. The role of subjectivity in reconstructing ancestral character states: A Bayesian approach to unknown rates, states, and transformation asymmetries. Systematic Biology 48: 651-664.Schultz, T. R., M. S. Engel, and M. A. Prentice. 1999. Resolving conflict between morphological and molecular evidence for the origin of eusociality in the "corbiculate" bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae): A hypothesis-testing approach. In: Entomological Contributions in Memory of Byron A. Alexander (G.W. Byers, R.H. Hagen, and R.W. Brooks, eds.), University of Kansas Natural History Museum Special Publication 24: 125-138.
Adams, R. M., U. G. Mueller, and T. R. Schultz. 1998. Nest Usurpation and Fungivory in Megalomyrmex sp. Nov. (silvestri species group): Lestobiotic or Predatory Relations with Fungus-Growing Ants? [Abstract]. In: M. P. Schwarz and K.l Hogendoorn, eds (eds.). Social Insects at the Turn of the Millenium: Proceedings of the XIII International Congress of IUSSI, Adelaide, Australia, 29 December 1998-3 January 1999. Flinders University Press, Adelaide, Australia.
Mueller, U.G., S.A. Rehner, and T.R. Schultz. 1998. The evolution of agriculture in ants. Science 281: 2034-2038. (With accompanying "Commentary": Jared Diamond. 1998. “Ants, crops, and history.” Science 281: 1974-1975.) Schultz, T. R., D. Bekkevold and J. J. Boomsma. 1998. Acromyrmex insinuator new species: An incipient
social parasite of fungus-growing ants. Insectes Sociaux 45:457-471.
Wetterer, J. K., T. R. Schultz, and R. Meier. 1998. Phylogeny of fungus-growing ants (tribe Attini) based on mtDNA sequence and morphology. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 9: 42-47.Engel, M. S. and T. R. Schultz 1997. Phylogeny and behavior in honey bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 90:43-53.
Meier, R. and T. R. Schultz. 1996. Pilzzucht und Blattschneiden bei Ameisen: Präadaptationen und evolutive Trends. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 35:57-76.
Schultz, T. R., R. B. Cocroft and G. A. Churchill. 1996. The reconstruction of ancestral character states. Evolution 50:504-511.
Schultz, T.R. 1995 ("1994"). Identification Guide to the Ant Genera of the World by Barry Bolton. Psyche 101: 203-208. [Book review.]
Schultz, T. R. and R. Meier. 1995. A phylogenetic analysis of the fungus-growing ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Attini) based on morphological characters of the larvae. Systematic Entomology 20:337-370.
Chapela, I. H., S. A. Rehner, T. R. Schultz and U. G. Mueller. 1994. Evolutionary history of the symbiosis between fungus-growing ants and their fungi. Science 266: 1691-1694.
Hinkle, G., J. K. Wetterer, T. R. Schultz and M. L. Sogin. 1994. Phylogeny of the attine ant fungi based on
analysis of small subunit ribosomal RNA gene sequences. Science 266:1695-1697.
Meier, R. & T. R. Schultz. 1994. The fungus-growing ants are monophyletic: A cladistic analysis of the Attini (Formicidae) based on a comparative SEM study of larvae. Verhandlungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft 87:230.
Schultz, T. R. 1993. Stalking the wild attine. Notes from Underground (Cambridge, Mass.: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University) 8:7-10. [Article.]
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