Pepijn Kooij

Publications

• Rapid shifts in Atta cephalotes fungus-garden enzyme activity after a change in fungal substrate (Attini, Formicidae).
• Myrteae phylogeny, calibration, biogeography and diversification patterns: Increased understanding in the most species rich tribe of Myrtaceae
• The role of chemical signalling in maintenance of the fungus garden by leaf-cutting ants
• Somatic incompatibility and genetic structure of fungal crops in sympatric Atta colombica and Acromyrmex echinatior leaf-cutting ants
• Pseudoxylaria as stowaway of the fungus-growing termite nest: Interaction asymmetry between Pseudoxylaria, Termitomyces and free-living relatives
• Explorando la diversidad de hongos en Boyacá, Colombia
• Climate Change Influences Basidiome Emergence of Leaf-Cutting Ant Cultivars
• Genome size versus genome assemblies: Are the genomes truly expanded in polyploid fungal symbionts?
• Ant mediated redistribution of a xyloglucanase enzyme in fungus gardens of Acromyrmex echinatior
• Relationships between resource availability and elevation vary between metrics creating gradients of nutritional complexity
• The scent of symbiosis: gut bacteria may affect social interactions in leaf-cutting ants
• The scent of symbiosis: Gut bacteria affect social interactions in leafcutting ants
• Nutrition mediates the expression of cultivar-farmer conflict in a fungus-growing ant
• How Do Leaf-Cutting Ants Recognize Antagonistic Microbes in Their Fungal Crops?
• New species of Cortinarius sect. Austroamericani, sect. nov., from South American Nothofagaceae forests
• Nutritional niches reveal fundamental domestication trade-offs in fungus-farming ants
• Cryptic diversity in colombian edible leaf-cutting ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
• Evolutionarily advanced ant farmers rear polyploid fungal crops
• Leucoagaricus gongylophorus uses leaf-cutting ants to vector proteolytic enzymes towards new plant substrate
• Differences in forage-acquisition and fungal enzyme activity contribute to niche segregation in Panamanian leaf-cutting ants
• Escovopsioides nivea is a non-specific antagonistic symbiont of ant-fungal crops
• Distinct and enhanced hygienic responses of a leaf‐cutting ant toward repeated fungi exposures
• Unraveling fungal species cultivated by lower attine ants
• Vertical transmission of fungus-growing ant microbiota is species-specific and constrained by queens
• The coevolution of fungus-ant agriculture
• Genomic Signatures of Domestication in a Fungus Obligately Farmed by Leafcutter Ants
• Disentangling the basidiomycete family Agaricaceae
• Exploring immune memory traits in the social immunity of a fungus-growing ant
• Fungal diversity notes 1818–1918: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions on genera and species of fungi