2021
Amador-Vargas, S. and Wcislo, W. T. 2021. “Nestmate interference in acacia ants varies with colony size and task specialization.” Animal Behaviour, 181 151–163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.08.026.
Chaib, Sandra, Dacke, Marie, Wcislo, William, and Warrant, Eric. 2021. “Dorsal landmark navigation in a Neotropical nocturnal bee.” Current Biology, 31, (16) 3601. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.05.029.
Christopher, Yuliana, Aguilar, Celestino, Galvez, Dumas, Wcislo, William T., Gerardo, Nicole M., and Fernandez-Marin, Hermogenes. 2021. “Interactions among Escovopsis, Antagonistic Microfungi Associated with the Fungus-Growing Ant Symbiosis.” Journal of Fungi, 7, (12). https://doi.org/10.3390/jof7121007.
Christopher, Yuliana, Wcislo, William T., Martinez-Luis, Sergio, Hughes, William O. H., Gerardo, Nicole M., and Fernandez-Marin, Hermogenes. 2021. “Disease management in two sympatric Apterostigma fungus-growing ants for controlling the parasitic fungus Escovopsis.” Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7379.
Hagadorn, Mallory A., Eck, Karlee, Del Grosso, Matthew, Haemmerle, Xavier, Wcislo, William T., and Kapheim, Karen M. 2021. “Age-related mushroom body expansion in male sweat bees and bumble bees.” Scientific Reports, 11, (1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-96268-w.
Kingwell, Callum, Boroczky, Katalin, Steitz, Iris, Ayasse, Manfred, and Wcislo, William. 2021. “Cuticular and Dufour’s Gland Chemistry Reflect Reproductive and Social State in the Facultatively Eusocial Sweat Bee Megalopta genalis (Hymenoptera: Halictidae).” Journal of chemical ecology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-021-01262-1.
Leray, Matthieu, Wilkins, Laetitia G. E., Apprill, Amy, Bik, Holly M., Clever, Friederike, Connolly, Sean R., De Leon, Marina E., Duffy, J. Emmett, Ezzat, Leila, Gignoux-Wolfsohn, Sarah, Herre, Edward Allen, Kaye, Jonathan Z., Kline, David I., Kueneman, Jordan G., McCormick, Melissa K., McMillan, W. Owen, O’Dea, Aaron, Pereira, Tiago J., Petersen, Jillian M., Petticord, Daniel F., Torchin, Mark E., Vega Thurber, Rebecca, Videvall, Elin, Wcislo, William T., Yuen, Benedict et al. 2021. “Natural experiments and long-term monitoring are critical to understand and predict marine host-microbe ecology and evolution.” Plos Biology, 19, (8). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001322.
Wcislo, Alex, Graham, Xavier, Stevens, Stan, Toppe, Johannes Ehoule, Wcislo, Lucas, and Wcislo, William T. 2021. “Azteca ants repair damage to their Cecropia host plants.” Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 88 61–70. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.88.75855.
Wcislo, William T. 2021. “A Dual Role for Behavior in Evolution and Shaping Organismal Selective Environments.” Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, Vol 52, 2021, 52 343–362. (Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics) https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-012921-052523.
2020
Kapheim, Karen M., Jones, Beryl M., Pan, Hailin, Li, Cai, Harpur, Brock A., Kent, Clement F., Zayed, Amro, Ioannidis, Panagiotis, Waterhouse, Robert M., Kingwell, Callum, Stolle, Eckart, Avalos, Arián, Zhang, Guojie, McMillan, W. O., and Wcislo, William T. 2020. “Developmental plasticity shapes social traits and selection in a facultatively eusocial bee.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117, (24) 13615–13625. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2000344117.
Krichilsky, Erin, Vega-Hidalgo, Álvaro, Hunter, Kate, Kingwell, Callum, Ritner, Chelsey, Wcislo, William, and Smith, Adam. 2020. “The first gynandromorph of the Neotropical bee Megalopta amoena (Spinola, 1853) (Halictidae) with notes on its circadian rhythm.” Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 75 97–108. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.75.47828.
Pierotti, Michele E. R., Wandycz, Anna, Wandycz, Pawel, Rebelein, Anja, Corredor, Vitor H., Tashiro, Juliana H., Castillo, Armando, Wcislo, William T., McMillan, W. O., and Loew, Ellis R. 2020. “The visual ecology of a color polymorphic reef fish: the role of aggressive mimicry.” bioRxiv, 1–48. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.03.970988.
Pierotti, Michele E. R., Wandycz, Anna, Wandycz, Pawel, Rebelein, Anja, Corredor, Vitor H., Tashiro, Juliana H., Castillo, Armando, Wcislo, William T., McMillan, W. Owen, and Loew, Ellis R. 2020. “Aggressive mimicry in a coral reef fish: The prey’s view.” Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6883.
Shik, Jonathan Z., Kooij, Pepijn W., Donoso, David A., Santos, Juan C., Gomez, Ernesto B., Franco, Mariana, Crumiere, Antonin J. J., Arnan, Xavier, Howe, Jack, Wcislo, William T., and Boomsma, Jacobus J. 2020. “Nutritional niches reveal fundamental domestication trade-offs in fungus-farming ants.” Nature Ecology & Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01314-x.
Wcislo, William T. 2020. “Fijian farming ants resolve the guns-or-butter dilemma for their crop plants.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 17, (7) 3357–3359. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1922921117.
2019
Bonadies, Ernesto, Wcislo, William T., Gálvez, Dumas, Hughes, William O. H., and Fernández-Marín, Hermógenes. 2019. “Hygiene Defense Behaviors Used by a Fungus-Growing Ant Depend on the Fungal Pathogen Stages.” Insects, 10, (5) 1–6. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects10050130.
Galgani-Barraza, Paola, Moreno, Jorge Enrique, Lobo, Sofia, Tribaldos, Wendy, Roubik, David W., and Wcislo, William T. 2019. “Flower use by late nineteenth-century orchid bees (Eufriesea surinamensis, Hymenoptera, Apidae) nesting in the Catedral Basílica Santa María la Antigua de Panamá.” Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 74 65–81. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.74.39191.
Kapheim, Karen M., Pan, Hailin, Li, Cai, Blatti, Charles, Harpur, Brock A., Ioannidis, Panagiotis, Jones, Beryl M., Kent, Clement F., Ruzzante, Livio, Sloofman, Laura, Stolle, Eckart, Waterhouse, Robert M., Zayed, Amro, Zhang, Guojie, and Wcislo, William T. 2019. “Draft genome assembly and population genetics of an agricultural pollinator, the solitary alkali bee (Halictidae: Nomia melanderi).” G3: Genes, Genomes; Genetics, 9, (3) 625–634. https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.118.200865.
Smith, A. R., Kapheim, K. M., and Wcislo, William T. 2019. “Survival and productivity benefits of sociality vary seasonally in the tropical, facultatively eusocial bee Megalopta genalis.” Insectes Sociaux, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-019-00713-z.
Smith, Adam R., Kapheim, Karen M., Kingwell, Callum J., and Wcislo, William T. 2019. “A split sex ratio in solitary and social nests of a facultatively social bee.” Biology Letters, 15, (4) 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0740.
Wilkins, Laetitia G. E., Leray, Matthieu, O’Dea, Aaron, Yuen, Benedict, Peixoto, Raquel S., Pereira, Tiago J., Bik, Holly M., Coil, David A., Duffy, J. Emmett, Herre, Edward Allen, Lessios, Harilaos A., Lucey, Noelle M., Mejia, Luis C., Rasher, Douglas B., Sharp, Koty H., Sogin, Emilia M., Thacker, Robert W., Thurber, Rebecca Vega, Wcislo, William T., Wilbanks, Elizabeth G., and Eisen, Jonathan A. 2019. “Host-associated microbiomes drive structure and function of marine ecosystems.” PLoS biology, 17, (11) 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000533.
Wilkins, Laetitia G. E., Leray, Matthieu, Yuen, Benedict, Peixoto, Raquel, Pereira, Tiago J., Bik, Holly M., Coil, David A., Duffy, J. Emmett, Herre, Edward Allen, Lessios, Harilaos, Lucey, Noelle, Mejia, Luis C., O’Dea, Aaron, Rasher, Douglas B., Sharp, Koty, Sogin, Emilia M., Thacker, Robert W., Thurber, Rebecca Vega, Wcislo, William T., Wilbanks, Elizabeth G., and Eisen, Jonathan A. 2019. “Host-associated microbiomes and their roles in marine ecosystem functions.” PeerJ, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27930v1.
2018
Jernigan, Christopher M., Birgiolas, Justas, McHugh, Cora, Roubik, David Ward, Wcislo, William T., and Smith, Brian H. 2018. “Colony-level non-associative plasticity of alarm responses in the stingless honey bee, Tetragonisca angustula.” Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 72, (3). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-018-2471-0.
Marting, Peter R., Wcislo, William T., and Pratt, Stephen C. 2018. “Colony personality and plant health in the Azteca-Cecropia mutualism.” Behavioral Ecology, 29, (1) 264–271. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arx165.
Smith, Adam, Harper, Christine, Kapheim, Karen M., Simons, Meagan, Kingwell, Callum J., and Wcislo, William T. 2018. “Effects of social organization and resource availability on brood parasitism in the facultatively social nocturnal bee Megalopta genalis.” Insectes Sociaux, 65, (1) 85–93. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-017-0590-7.
2017
Boomsma, Jacobus J., Brady, Seán Gary, Dunn, Robert R., Gadau, Juergen, Heinze, Juergen, Keller, Laurent, Moreau, Corrie S., Sanders, Nathan J., Schrader, Lukas, Schultz, Ted R., Sundstrom, Lotta, Ward, Philip S., Wcislo, William T., Zhang, Guojie, and GAGA Consortium. 2017. “The Global Ant Genomics Alliance (GAGA).” Myrmecological News, 25 61–66.
Jones, Beryl M., Kingwell, Callum J., Wcislo, William T., and Robinson, Gene E. 2017. “Caste-biased gene expression in a facultatively eusocial bee suggests a role for genetic accommodation in the evolution of eusociality.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284, (1846). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.2228.
Stone, Thomas, Webb, Barbara, Adden, Andrea, Weddig, Nicolai Ben, Honkanen, Anna, Templin, Rachel, Wcislo, William T., Scimeca, Luca, Warrant, Eric, and Heinze, Stanley. 2017. “An Anatomically Constrained Model for Path Integration in the Bee Brain.” Current Biology, 27 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.08.052.
Tierney, Simon M., Friedrich, Markus, Humphreys, William F., Jones, Therésa M., Warrant, Eric J., and Wcislo, William T. 2017. “Consequences of evolutionary transitions in changing photic environments: Transitions in photic environments.” Austral Entomology, 56, (1) 23–46. https://doi.org/10.1111/aen.12264.
2016
Armitage, Sophie A. O., Fernández-Marín, Hermógenes, Boomsma, Jacobus J., and Wcislo, William T. 2016. “Slowing them down will make them lose: A role for attine ant crop fungus in defending pupae against infections?” Journal of Animal Ecology, 85, (5) 1210–1221. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12543.
González, Cely T., Wcislo, William T., Cambra, T. R., Wheeler, Terry A., and Fernández-Marín, Hermógenes. 2016. “A New Ectoparasitoid Species of Pseudogaurax Malloch, 1915 (Diptera: Chloropidae), Attacking the Fungus-Growing Ant, Apterostigma dentigerum Wheeler, 1925 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).” Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 109, (4) 639–645. https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/saw023.
Kapheim, Karen M., Chan, T. Y., Smith, A. R., Wcislo, William T., and Nonacs, P. 2016. “Ontogeny of division of labor in a facultatively eusocial sweat bee Megalopta genalis.” Insectes Sociaux, 63, (1) 185–191. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-015-0454-y.
Mitko, Lukasz, Weber, Marjorie G., Ramirez, Santiago R., Hedenström, Erik, Wcislo, William T., and Eltz, Thomas. 2016. “Olfactory specialization for perfume collection in male orchid bees.” Journal of Experimental Biology, 219, (10) 1467–1475. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.136754.
Nygaard, Sanne, Hu, Haofu, Li, Cai, Schiott, Morten, Chen, Zhensheng, Yang, Zhikai, Xie, Qiaolin, Ma, Chunyu, Deng, Yuan, Dikow, Rebecca B., Rabeling, Christian, Nash, David R., Wcislo, William T., Brady, Seán Gary, Schultz, Ted R., Zhang, Guojie, and Boomsma, Jacobus J. 2016. “Reciprocal genomic evolution in the ant-fungus agricultural symbiosis.” Nature Communications, 7 e12233. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12233.
Shik, Jonathan Z., Gomez, Ernesto B., Kooij, Pepijn W., Santos, Juan C., Wcislo, William T., and Boomsma, Jacobus J. 2016. “Nutrition mediates the expression of cultivar–farmer conflict in a fungus-growing ant.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113, (36) 10121–10126. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1606128113.
Wcislo, William T. 2016. “Trophallaxis in weakly social bees (Apoidea).” Ecological Entomology, 41, (1) 37–39. https://doi.org/10.1111/een.12289.
2015
Amador-Vargas, Sabrina, Gronenberg, Wulfila, Wcislo, William T., and Mueller, Ulrich G. 2015. “Specialization and group size: brain and behavioural correlates of colony size in ants lacking morphological castes.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282, (1801). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.2502.
Baird, Emily, Fernandez, Diana C., Wcislo, William T., and Warrant, Eric J. 2015. “Flight control and landing precision in the nocturnal bee Megalopta is robust to large changes in light intensity.” Frontiers in Physiology, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2015.00305.
Estrada, Catalina, Degner, Ethan C., Rojas, Enith I., Wcislo, William T., and Van Bael, Sunshine A. 2015. “The role of endophyte diversity in protecting plants from defoliation by leaf-cutting ants.” Current science, 109, (1) 55–61.
Fernández-Marín, Hermógenes, Nash, David R., Higginbotham, Sarah, Estrada, Catalina, van Zweden, Jelle S., d’Ettorre, Patrizia, Wcislo, William T., and Boomsma, Jacobus J. 2015. “Functional role of phenylacetic acid from metapleural gland secretions in controlling fungal pathogens in evolutionarily derived leaf-cutting ants.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282, (1807). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0212.
Jones, Beryl M., Wcislo, William T., and Robinson, Gene E. 2015. “Developmental Transcriptome for a Facultatively Eusocial Bee, Megalopta genalis.” G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics, 5, (10) 2127–2135. https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.115.021261.
Kapheim, Karen M., Nonacs, Peter, Smith, Adam R., Wayne, Robert K., and Wcislo, William T. 2015. “Kinship, parental manipulation and evolutionary origins of eusociality.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282, (1803). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.2886.
Quiñones, A. E. and Wcislo, William T. 2015. “Cryptic extended brood care in the facultatively eusocial sweat bee Megalopta genalis.” Insectes Sociaux, 62, (3) 307–313. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-015-0409-3.
Rehan, S. M., Tierney, Simon M., and Wcislo, William T. 2015. “Evidence for social nesting in Neotropical ceratinine bees.” Insectes Sociaux, 62, (4) 465–469. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-015-0425-3.
2014
Bruner, Gaspar, Wcislo, William T., and Fernandez, Hermogenes. 2014. “Prudent inquilines and proactive hosts: behavioral dynamics between an ant social parasite, Megalomyrmex symmetochus and its fungus-growing ant host, Sericomyrmex amabilis.” Insectes Sociaux, 61, (1) 83–88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-013-0331-5.
Estrada, Catalina, Rojas, Enith I., Wcislo, William T., and Van Bael, Sunshine A. 2014. “Fungal endophyte effects on leaf chemistry alter the in vitro growth rates of leaf-cutting ants’ fungal mutualist, Leucocoprinus gongylophorus.” Fungal Ecology, 8 37–45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funeco.2013.12.009.
Jernigan, Chris M., Roubik, David Ward, Wcislo, William T., and Riveros, Andre. 2014. “Color-dependent learning in restrained Africanized honey bees.” Journal of Experimental Biology, 217 337–343. https://doi.org/10.1242/?jeb.091355.
McFrederick, Quinn S., Wcislo, William T., Hout, Michael C., and Mueller, Ulrich G. 2014. “Host species and developmental stage, but not host sociality, affects bacterial community structure in socially polymorphic bees.” FEMS microbiology ecology, 88, (2) 398–406. https://doi.org/10.1111/1574-6941.12302.
2013
Eberhard, William G., Wcislo, William T., and Stahnke, Adelheid. 2013. “Wege zum Minigehirn.” Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 24–30.
Estrada, Catalina, Wcislo, William T., and Van Bael, Sunshine A. 2013. “Symbiotic fungi alter plant chemistry that discourages leaf-cutting ants.” New Phytologist, 198 241–251. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.12140.