Jon N. Seal

The paper examines phylosymbiosis in fungus-gardening ants by analyzing host and microbiome phylogenies, finding congruence between ants and their microbiomes but not between fungi and microbiomes.

This study uses Atta leafcutter ants as bioindicators to track geographic and seasonal climate changes across the Americas using mating-flight phenology data.

This study uses dietary DNA metabarcoding to analyze plant forage diversity in two co-occurring fungus gardening ant species, finding significant differences in plant beta and alpha diversity between species and paired colonies.