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Overview

Ted R. Schultz is a researcher affiliated with the National Museum of Natural History in the United States. Their work primarily spans fields including Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Key research subfields include Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Insect Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientific topics frequently addressed by Schultz focus on Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Plant and Animal Studies, Insect and Pesticide Research, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Fossil Insects in Amber, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research.

Schultz has contributed to a range of recent publications, some of which are:

  • Biomineral armor in leaf-cutter ants, 2020, Nature Communications
  • UCE Phylogenomics Resolves Major Relationships Among Ectaheteromorph Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ectatomminae, Heteroponerinae): A New Classification For the Subfamilies and the Description of a New Genus, 2022, Insect Systematics and Diversity
  • Phylogenomic reconstruction reveals new insights into the evolution and biogeography of Atta leaf-cutting ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), 2021, Systematic Entomology
  • Out of the temperate zone: A phylogenomic test of the biogeographical conservatism hypothesis in a contrarian clade of ants, 2022, Journal of Biogeography
  • The coevolution of fungus-ant agriculture, 2024, Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Schultz include:

  • Jeffrey Sosa-Calvo
  • Ana Ješovnik
  • Cameron R. Currie
  • Heraldo L. Vasconcelos
  • Jacobus J. Boomsma

Schultz's contributions appear in several publication venues with multiple works featured in Insect Systematics and Diversity and Systematic Entomology. Other notable venues include Science, Cell, and Nature Communications.

Best Publications

  • Ants : standard methods for measuring and monitoring biodiversity

    Donat Agosti;Jonathan D. Majer;Leeanne E. Alonso;Ted R. Schultz

  • Major evolutionary transitions in ant agriculture

    Ted R. Schultz;Seán G. Brady

  • The Evolution of Agriculture in Insects

    Ulrich G. Mueller;Nicole M. Gerardo;Nicole M. Gerardo;Nicole M. Gerardo;Duur K. Aanen;Diana L. Six

  • Evaluating alternative hypotheses for the early evolution and diversification of ants.

    Seán G. Brady;Ted R. Schultz;Brian L. Fisher;Philip S. Ward

  • The Evolution of Agriculture in Ants

    Ulrich Gerhard Mueller;Stephen A. Rehner;Ted R. Schultz

  • Evolutionary History of the Symbiosis Between Fungus-Growing Ants and Their Fungi

    Ignacio H. Chapela;Stephen A. Rehner;Ted R. Schultz;Ulrich G. Mueller

  • Ancient tripartite coevolution in the attine ant-microbe symbiosis.

    Cameron Robert Currie;Bess Wong;Alison E. Stuart;Ted R. Schultz

  • The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

    Philip S. Ward;Seán G. Brady;Brian L. Fisher;Ted R. Schultz

  • The origin of the attine ant-fungus mutualism.

    Ulrich G. Mueller;Ted R. Schultz;Cameron R. Currie;Rachelle M. M. Adams

  • Making Mosquito Taxonomy Useful: A Stable Classification of Tribe Aedini that Balances Utility with Current Knowledge of Evolutionary Relationships

    Richard C. Wilkerson;Yvonne-Marie Linton;Dina M. Fonseca;Ted R. Schultz

  • A phylogenetic analysis of the fungus‐growing ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Attini) based on morphological characters of the larvae

    Ted R. Schultz;Rudolf Meier

  • Phylogeny and Biogeography of Dolichoderine Ants: Effects of Data Partitioning and Relict Taxa on Historical Inference

    Philip S. Ward;Seán G. Brady;Brian L. Fisher;Ted R. Schultz

  • Phylogenomic methods outperform traditional multi-locus approaches in resolving deep evolutionary history: a case study of formicine ants.

    Bonnie B. Blaimer;Seán G. Brady;Ted R. Schultz;Michael W. Lloyd

  • In search of ant ancestors

    Ted R. Schultz

  • Natural history and phylogeny of the fungus-farming ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Attini)

    Natasha J. Mehdiabadi;Ted R. Schultz

  • Phylogeny of Anophelinae (Diptera: Culicidae) based on nuclear ribosomal and mitochondrial DNA sequences

    Maria Anice Mureb Sallum;T. R. Schultz;P. G. Foster;K. Aronstein

  • Dry habitats were crucibles of domestication in the evolution of agriculture in ants.

    Michael G. Branstetter;Ana Ješovnik;Jeffrey Sosa-Calvo;Jeffrey Sosa-Calvo;Michael W. Lloyd

  • Reciprocal genomic evolution in the ant-fungus agricultural symbiosis.

    Sanne Nygaard;Haofu Hu;Cai Li;Morten Schiøtt

  • The rise of army ants and their relatives: diversification of specialized predatory doryline ants

    Seán G Brady;Brian L Fisher;Ted R Schultz;Philip S Ward

  • Phylogeny of Fungus-Growing Ants (Tribe Attini) Based on mtDNA Sequence and Morphology

    James K. Wetterer;Ted R. Schultz;Rudolf Meier

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrich G. Mueller
Ulrich G. Mueller The University of Texas at Austin
Brian L. Fisher
Brian L. Fisher California Academy of Sciences
Philip S. Ward
Philip S. Ward University of California, Davis
Cameron R. Currie
Cameron R. Currie University of Wisconsin–Madison
Heraldo L. Vasconcelos
Heraldo L. Vasconcelos Federal University of Uberlândia
Jacobus J. Boomsma
Jacobus J. Boomsma University of Copenhagen
Stephen A. Rehner
Stephen A. Rehner Agricultural Research Service
Guojie Zhang
Guojie Zhang Zhejiang University
Richard C. Wilkerson
Richard C. Wilkerson Smithsonian Institution
Maria Anice Mureb Sallum
Maria Anice Mureb Sallum Universidade de São Paulo

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