Peer-reviewed articles

 

• Shik, J.Z., Kooij, P.W., Donoso, D.A., Santos, J.C., Gomez, E.B., Franco, M., Crumière, A.J.J., Arnan, X., Howe, J., Wcislo, W.T., and Boomsma, J..J. (2020). Nutritional niches reveal fundamental domestication trade-offs in fungus-farming ants. Nature Ecology & Evolution. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-020-01314-x.
• Kooij, P.W., Pellicer, J., Genome size versus genome assemblies: are the genomes truly expanded in polyploid fungal symbionts?, Genome Biology and Evolution. DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evaa217.
• Goes, A.C., Barcoto, M.O., Kooij, P.W., Bueno, O.C., and Rodrigues, A. (2020) How Do Leaf-Cutting Ants Recognize Antagonistic Microbes in Their Fungal Crops? Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8: 14887. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2020.00095.
• Kooij, P.W., and Gaya, E. (2019) Explorando la diversidad de hongos en Boyacá, Colombia. Revista Digital Fulica, 10th edition: El alucinante universo de los hongos. ISSN 2382-4743.
• Serafino, T, Van Zweden, J., Pontieri, L., Kooij, P.W., Sørensen, S.J., Wenseleers, T., Poulsen, M., Boomsma, J.J. and Sapountzis, P. (2019) The scent of symbiosis: gut bacteria may affect social interactions in leaf-cutting ants. Animal Behaviour 150: 239-254. DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.12.017.
• Kooij, P.W., Dentinger, B.T.M., Donoso, D.A., Shik, J.Z., and Gaya E. (2018) Cryptic diversity in Colombian edible leaf-cutting ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insects 9: 191. DOI: 10.3390/insects9040191.
• San-Fabian, B., Niskanen, T., Liimatainen, K., Kooij, P.W., Mujic, A.B., Truong, C., Peintner, U., Dresch, P., Nouhra, E., Matheny, P.B., and Smith M.E. (2018) New species of Cortinarius sect. Austroamericani, sect. nov., from South American Nothofagaceae forests. Mycologia 110: 1127-1144. DOI: 10.1080/00275514.2018.1515449.
• Green, P.W.C., and Kooij, P.W. (2018) The role of chemical signalling in maintenance of the fungus garden by leaf-cutting ants. Chemoecology 28: 101-107. DOI: 10.1007/s00049-018-0260-x.
• Gaya, E., Kooij, P.W., Dentinger, B.T.M., Grigoriev, I.V., Nagy, L., Stajich, J., Coker, T. and Leitch, I.J. (2018) Fungal tree of life. In: Willis, K.J. (ed.), State of the World’s Fungi. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. pp. 12–17.
• Leitch, I.J., Kooij, P.W., Coker, T., Grigoriev, I.V., Nagy, L., Martin, F., Stajich, J., Dentinger, B.T.M. and Gaya, E. (2018) Fungal genomes: Exploring, understanding and utilising their diversity. In: Willis, K.J. (ed.), State of the World’s Fungi. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. pp. 40–47.
• Vasconcelos, T.N.C., Proença, C.E.B., Ahmad, B., Aguilar, D.S., Aguilar, R., Amorim, B.S., Campbell, K., Costa, I.R., De-Carvalho, P.S., Faria, J.E.Q., Giaretta, A., Kooij, P.W., Lima, D.F., Mazine, F.F., Peguero, B., Prenner, G., Santos, M.F., Soewarto, J., Wingler, A. and Lucas, E.J. (2017) Myrteae phylogeny, calibration, biogeography and diversification patterns: Increased understanding in the most species rich tribe of Myrtaceae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 109: 113–137. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.01.002.
• Shik, J.Z., Gomez, E.B., Kooij, P.W., Santos, J.C., Wcislo, W.T. and Boomsma J.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. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1606128113.
• Kooij, P.W., Pullens, J.W.M., Boomsma, J.J. and Schiøtt, M. (2016) Ant mediated redistribution of a xyloglucanase enzyme in fungus gardens of Acromyrmex echinatior. BMC Microbiology 16: 81. DOI: 10.1186/s12866-016-0697-4.
• Kooij, P.W., Aanen, D.K., Schiøtt, M. and Boomsma, J.J. (2015) Evolutionarily advanced ant farmers rear polyploid fungal crops. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28: 1911-1924. DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12718.
• Kooij, P.W., Poulsen, M., Schiøtt, M. and Boomsma, J.J. (2015) Somatic incompatibility between fungal crops in sympatric Atta and Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants. Fungal Ecology 18: 10-17. DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2015.08.003.
• Kooij, P.W., Rogowska-Wrzesinska, A., Hoffmann, D., Roepstorff, P., Boomsma, J.J. and Schiøtt, M. (2014) Leucoagaricus gongylophorus uses leaf-cutting ants to vector proteolytic enzymes towards new plant substrate. The ISME Journal 8: 1032-1040. DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2013.231.
• Kooij, P.W., Liberti, J., Giampadoukis, K., Schiøtt, M., and Boomsma, J.J. (2014) Differences in forage-acquisition and fungal enzyme activity contribute to niche segregation in Panamanian leaf-cutting ants. PLoS ONE 9(4): e94284. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094284.s001.
• Kooij, P.W. (2013) Fungal adaptations to mutualistic life with ants. PhD-thesis, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. 156pp.
• Kooij, P.W., Schiøtt, M., Boomsma, J.J. and De Fine Licht, H.H. (2011) Rapid shifts in Atta cephalotes fungus-garden enzyme activity after a change in fungal substrate (Attini; Formicidae). Insectes Sociaux 58: 145-151. DOI: 10.1007/s00040-010-0127-9.
• Visser, A.A., Kooij, P.W., Debets, A.J.M., Kuyper, T.W. and Aanen, D.K. (2011) Pseudoxylaria as stowaway of the fungus-growing termite nest: Interaction asymmetry between Pseudoxylaria, Termitomyces and free-living relatives. Fungal Ecology 4: 322-332. DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2011.05.003.

 

CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA AND SEMINARS

 

• "Fungus-growing ants or ant-growing fungi: a matter of perspective in studying mutualisms." Seminários Gerais, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Microbiologia Aplicada), UNESP, Rio Claro, Brazil, 2020 (talk).
• "Why study ants at Kew?" Kabam! seminar at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK, 2019 (talk).
• "Ant fungal crop phylogenetics and genomics." Invited seminar at Laboratório de Micologia do INPA, Manaus, Brazil, 2019 (talk).
• "On several aspects of lower attine ant fungi." Invited talk at IX Congresso Brasileiro de Micologia, Manaus, Brazil, 2019 (talk).
• "Fungus-growing ants or ant-growing fungi: a matter of perspective in studying mutualisms." Invited seminar at the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom, 2019 (talk).
• British Mycological Society Autumn Meeting 2018, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK, 2018 (attended).
• "On the origin of mutualisms: where did fungus-farming in ants begin?" State of the World’s Fungi 2018, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK, 2018 (poster).
• "Genome assembly of the fungus Leucoagaricus gongylophorus cultivated by the ant Atta colombica using long-read MinION sequences." 18th World congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI), Guarujá, Brazil, 2018 (talk).
• "Genome assembly of the fungus Leucoagaricus gongylophorus cultivated by the ant Atta colombica using long-read MinION sequences." 11th International Mycological Congress (IMC), San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2018 (talk).
• "Genome assembly of the fungus Leucoagaricus gongylophorus cultivated by the ant Atta colombica using long-read MinION sequences." The Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics Symposium (EGGS), Cambridge, UK, 2018 (poster).
• "Boyacá's Forgotten Kingdom." Brown-bag seminar at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, United Kingdom, 2017 (talk).
• "On the origin of mutualisms: where did fungus-farming in ants begin?" 16th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), Groningen, The Netherlands, 2017 (poster).
• "On ants, fungus and ‘hormigas culonas’: Phylogenetic studies of fungus-farming ants." Invited seminar at the Section for Ecology and Evolution, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017 (talk).
• "On the origin of mutualisms: constructing phylogeny of Leucoagaricus and related species." British Mycological Society Autumn Meeting, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK, 2016 (talk).
• "On ants, fungus and ‘hormigas culonas’: Phylogenetic studies of fungus-farming ants." Invited seminar at the research group Genética evolutiva, filogeografía y ecología de biodiversidad Neotropical, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia, 2016 (talk).
• "International Biological Collections: RBG Kew." Invited talk at the workshop "Talleres internacionales de buenas prácticas para diseñar proyectos" organised by the British Research Council and Colciencias, Barranquilla, Colombia, 2016 (talk).
• "On the origin of mutualisms." Invited talk at VIII Congresso Brasileiro de Micologia, Florianopolis, Brazil, 2016 (talk).
• "Fungal adaptations to mutualistic life with ants: The story of a fungal symbiont." Invited seminar at Organismal Biology Department, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom, 2016 (talk).
• "Fungal adaptations to mutualistic life with ants: The story of a fungal symbiont." Brown-bag seminar at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, United Kingdom, 2016 (talk).
• "Symbiont policing and mutualism maintenance." Centre for Ecology and Evolution (CEE) Autumn Symposium and Mixer, London, United Kingdom, 2015 (talk)
• "Fast-growing fungal crops grown by the ant Trachymyrmex cornetzi appear more resistant to the fungal pathogen Escovospsis." North-west European Section IUSSI winter meeting, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom, 2014 (talk).
• "Advanced farming ants rear polyploid crop fungi." Copenhagen Microbiology Center Symposium, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2014 (poster).
• "Advanced farming ants rear polyploid crop fungi." 18th World congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI), Cairns, Australia, 2014 (talk).
• "Advanced farming ants rear polyploid crop fungi." 2nd PhD-day at the Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2013 (flash-talk + poster).
• "Attine ants: the animal freight trucks of their fungal symbiont. New molecular insight into a complex ant-fungus mutualism." Invited seminar at Microbial Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Lund, Sweden, 2013 (talk).
• "Attine ants: the animal freight trucks of their fungal symbiont. New molecular insight into a complex ant-fungus mutualism." 1st PhD-day at the Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2012 (talk).
• "Attine ants: the animal freight trucks of their fungal symbiont. New molecular insight into a complex ant-fungus mutualism." 18th European Meeting of PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology (EMPSEB), Virrat, Finland, 2012 (talk).
• "Attine ants: the animal freight trucks of their fungal symbiont. New molecular insight into a complex ant-fungus mutualism." 5th Congress of the European Sections of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI), Montecatini Terme, Italy, 2012 (talk).
• "Attine ants: Farmers or livestock? New molecular insight into a complex ant-fungus mutualism." 13th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), Tübingen, Germany, 2011 (talk).
• 17th World congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2010 (organizing group).
• "'Fast-food' versus 'fresh' food: Dynamics of fungus garden enzyme activity in the leaf-cutting ant Atta cephalotes [Attini: Myrmicinae: Formicidae]." Nordic Network in Social Evolution Symposium, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2009 (talk).
• Nordic Network in Social Evolution Workshop, Matsalu, Estonia, 2009 (talk).

 

 

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