Christian Rabeling

Rabeling C. 2020. Social Parasitism. In: Starr C. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Social Insects. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90306-4_175-1

Borowiec M, Moreau CS, Rabeling C. 2020. Ants: Phylogeny and Classification. In: Starr C. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Social Insects. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90306-4_155-1

Messer S, Cover SP, Rabeling C. 2020. Two new species of socially parasitic Nylanderia ants from the southeastern United States. ZooKeys 921: 23-48. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.921.46921

Rabeling C, Messer S, Bacci Jr M, Nascimento IC, Lacau S, Delabie JHC. 2019. Acromyrmex fowleri: a new inquiline social parasite species of leaf-cutting ants from tropical South America. Insectes Sociaux 66: 435–351. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-019-00705-z

Solomon SE, Rabeling C, Sosa-Calvo J, Lopes CT, Mueller UG, Vasconcelos HL, Bacci M, Schultz TR. Molecular phylogenies of Trachymyrmex ants and their fungal cultivars provide insights into the co-evolutionary history of "higher" ant agriculture. Systematic Entomology 44: 939–956. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12370

Borowiec ML, Rabeling C, Brady SG, Fisher BL, Schultz TR, Ward PS. 2019. Compositional heterogeneity and outgroup choice influence the internal phylogeny of the ants. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 135: 111–121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2019.01.024

Li H, Sosa-Calvo J, Horn H, Pupo MT, Clardy J, Rabeling C, Schultz TR, Currie CR. 2018. Convergent evolution of complex structures for ant-bacterial defensive symbiosis in fungus-farming ants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115: 10720–10725. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1809332115

Gray KW, Cover SP, Johnson RA, Rabeling C. 2018. The dacetine ant Strumigenys arizonica, an apparent obligate commensal of the fungus-growing ant Trachymyrmex arizonensis in the North American Southwest. Insectes Sociaux 65: 401–410. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-018-0625-8

Sosa-Calvo J, Schultz TR, Ješovnik A, Dahan RA, Rabeling C. 2018. Evolution, systematics, and natural history of a new genus of cryptobiotic fungus-growing ants. Systematic Entomology 43: 549–567. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12289

Matos-Maraví P, Clouse RM, Sarnat EM, Economo EP, LaPolla JS, Borovanska M, Rabeling C, Czekanski-Moir J, Latumahina F, Wilson EO, Janda M. 2018. An ant genus-group (Prenolepis) illuminates the biogeography and drivers of insect diversification in the Indo-Pacific. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 123: 16–25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.02.007

Mueller UG†, Ishak HD, Brushi SM, Herman JJ, Smith CC, Solomon SE, Mikheyev AS, Rabeling C, Scott JJ, Cooper M, Rodriguez A, Ortiz A, Brandão CRF, Lattke JE, Pagnocca FC, Rehner SA, Schultz TR, Vasconcelos HL, Adams RMM, Bollazzi M, Clark RM, Himler AG, LaPolla JS, Leal IR, Johnson RA, Roces F, Sosa-Calvo J, Wirth R, Bacci Jr M. 2017. Biogeography of mutualistic fungi cultivated by leafcutter ants. Molecular Ecology 26: 6921–6937. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14431

Sosa-Calvo J, Jesovnik A, Lopes CT, Rodrigues A, Rabeling C, Bacci Jr. M, Vasconcelos HL, Schultz TR. 2017. Biology of the relict fungus-farming ant Apterostigma megacephala Lattke, including descriptions of the male, gyne, and larva. Insectes Sociaux 64: 329–346. https://doi.org10.1007/s00040-017-0550-2

Rabeling C, Sosa-Calvo J, O’Connell LA, Coloma LA, Fernández F. Lenomyrmex hoelldobleri: a new ant species discovered in the stomach of the dendrobatid poison frog, Oophaga sylvatica (Funkhouser). ZooKeys 618: 79-95. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.618.9692

Nygaard S, Hu H, Li C, Schiøtt M, Chen Z, Yang Z, Xie Q, Ma C, Deng Y, Dikow RB, Rabeling C, Nash DR, Wcislo WT, Brady SG, Schultz TR, ZhangG, Boomsma JJ. 2016. Reciprocal genomic evolution in the ant-fungus agricultural symbiosis. Nature Communications 7: 12233. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12233

Rabeling C, Schultz TR, Bacci Jr. M, Bollazzi M. 2015. Acromyrmex charruanus: a new inquiline social parasite species of leaf-cutting ants. Insectes Sociaux 62: 335-349. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-015-0406-6

Economo EP, Sarnat EM, Janda M, Clouse R, Klimov P, Fischer G, Blanchard BD, Ramirez L, Andersen AN, Berman M, Guénard B, Rabeling C, Wilson EO, Knowles LL. 2015. Breaking out of biogeographic modules: range expansion and taxon cycles in Old World Pheidole. Journal of Biogeography 42: 2253–2460. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12592

Rabeling C, Schultz TR, Pierce NE, Bacci M. 2014. A social parasite evolved reproductive isolation from its fungus-growing ant host in sympatry. Current Biology 24: 2047-2052. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.07.048

Sarnat EM, Rabeling C, Economo EP, Wilson EO. 2014. First record of a species from the Pheidole flavens-complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the southwestern Pacific. BioInvasions Records 3: 301-307. http://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2014.3.4.13

Clouse RM, Janda M, Blanchard B, Sharma P, Hoffman BD, Andersen AN, Czekanski-Moir JE, Krushelnycky P, Rabeling C, Wilson EO, Economo EP, Saranat EM, Wheeler WC. 2014. Molecular phylogeny of a widespread ant group reveals waves of dispersal and colonization into and out of the Pacific. Cladistics 31: 424-437. https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12099

Rabeling C, Love CN, Lance SL, Jones KL, Pierce NE, Bacci M. 2014. Development of twenty-one polymorphic microsatellite markers for the fungus-growing ant, Mycocepurus goeldii (Formicidae: Attini), using Illumina paired-end genomic sequencing. Conservation Genetics Resources 6: 739–741. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-014-0204-x

Masiulionis VE, Rabeling C, De Fine Licht HH, Schultz TR, Bacci Jr. M, Santos Bezerra CM, Pagnocca FC. 2014. A Brazilian population of the asexual fungus-growing ant Mycocepurus smithii (Formicidae, Myrmicinae, Attini) cultivates fungal symbionts with gongylidia-like structures. PLoS ONE 9(8): e103800. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103800

Rabeling C, Bollazzi M, Bacci M, Beasley RR, Lance SL, Jones KL, Pierce NE. 2014. Development and characterization of twenty-two polymorphic microsatellite markers for the leafcutter ant, Acromyrmex lundii, utilizing Illumina sequencing. Conservation Genetics Resources 6: 319–322. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-013-0078-3

Rabeling C & Kronauer DJC. 2013. Evolution of thelytokous parthenogenesis in eusocial Hymenoptera. Annual Review of Entomology 58: 273-292. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ento-120811-153710

Sosa-Calvo J, Schultz TR, Brandão CRF, Klingenberg C, Feitosa RM, Rabeling C, Bacci M, Lopes CT, Vasconcelos HL. 2013.Cyatta abscondita: Taxonomy, evolution, and natural history of a new fungus-farming ant genus from Brazil. PLoS ONE 8(11): e80498. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0080498

Rabeling C, Verhaagh M, Garcia MVB. 2012. Observations on the specialized predatory behavior of the pitchfork-mandibled ponerine ant Thaumatomyrmex paludis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Breviora 533: 1-8. https://doi.org/10.3099/MCZ3.1

Rabeling C, Gonzales O, Schultz TR, Bacci M, Garcia MVB, Verhaagh M, Ishak H, Mueller UG. 2011. Cryptic sexual populations account for genetic diversity and ecological success in a widely distributed, parthenogenetic fungus-growing ant. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108: 12366–12371. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1105467108

Rabeling C & Bacci M. 2010. A new workerless inquiline in the Lower Attini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a discussion of social parasitism in fungus-growing ants. Systematic Entomology 35: 379-392. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00533.x

Rabeling C, Lino Neto J, Cappellari SC, Santos IA, Mueller UG & Bacci M. 2009. Thelytokous parthenogenesis in the fungus-gardening ant Mycocepurus smithii (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). PLoS ONE 4(8): e6781. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0006781

Rabeling C, Brown JM & Verhaagh M. 2008. Newly discovered sister lineage sheds light on early ant evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105: 14913-14917. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0806187105

Mueller UG, Dash D, Rabeling C & Rodrigues A. 2008. Coevolution between attine ants and actinomycete bacteria: a reevaluation. Evolution 62: 2894–2912. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00501.x

Mueller UG & Rabeling C. 2008. A breakthrough innovation in animal evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105: 5287-5288. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0801464105

Rabeling C, Cover SP, Mueller UG & Johnson RA. 2007. A review of the North American species of the fungus-gardening ant genus Trachymyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 1664: 1-54. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1664.1.1

Rabeling C, Verhaagh M & Engels W. 2007. Comparative study of nest architecture and colony structure of the fungus-growing ant species Mycocepurus goeldii and M. smithii (Formicidae: Attini). Journal of Insect Science 7 (40): 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1673/031.007.4001

Rabeling C, Verhaagh M & Mueller UG. 2006. Behavioral ecology and natural history of Blepharidatta brasiliensis (Formicidae: Blepharidattini). Insectes Sociaux 53: 300-307. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-006-0872-y