Ulrich G. Mueller

Affiliations: 
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, U.S.A. 
Area:
Evolution, Symbiosis, Microbial Ecology, Population Biology, Behavior
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Parents

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Stephen T. Emlen grad student 1984-1986 Cornell
 (Master of Science 1986)
George Eickwort grad student 1988-1992 Cornell
 (PhD 1992)
Thomas Eisner post-doc 1992-1995 Cornell (Biomechanics Tree)
William T. Wcislo post-doc 1995-1996 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Children

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Palle Villesen grad student 2000-2001 University of Aarhus, Denmark
Natasha Mehdiabadi grad student 1999-2002 Smithsonian Institution
Mathew Kweskin grad student 2000-2003 Smithsonian Institution
Nicole Gerardo grad student 1999-2004 Emory
Brian Wee grad student 1999-2004 NEON
Sergio R. Sanchez-Pena grad student 1999-2005 Universidad Autonoma Saltillo (Neurotree)
Anna Himler grad student 2000-2007 College of Idaho
Scott E. Solomon grad student 2000-2007 Rice University
Andre Rodrigues grad student 2005-2007 UNESP Rio Claro, Brazil
Rachelle Adams grad student 2002-2008 Ohio State
Alexander Mikheyev grad student 2002-2008 Okinawa Insitute of Science and Technology
Natalia Biani grad student 2003-2009 University of Vancouver
Henrik deFine Licht grad student 2008-2009 Copenhagen University
Sze-Huei Yek grad student 2008-2009 University of Lausanne
Barrett Klein grad student 2004-2010 University of Wisconsin La Croix
Christian Rabeling grad student 2004-2010 Arizona State
Sabrina Amador-Vargas grad student 2009-2014 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Lucas Mereilles grad student 2014-2014 Caltech
Rong Ma grad student 2012-2017 Penn State
Andy Chi-Chun Fang grad student 2012-2019 Advanced Cell Diagnostics
Emma Dietrich grad student 2019-2019 University of Michigan - Dearborn
Hannah Marti grad student 2014-2020 US Fish & Wildlife Service
Zachary Phillips grad student 2014-2021 Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
Takahiro Murakami post-doc 1999-2001 Hokkaido University, Japan
Donald Dearborn post-doc 2000-2001 Bates College
Heike Pröhl post-doc 2000-2003 University of Hannover, Germany
Patrick Abbot post-doc 2002-2003 Vanderbilt
Kathrin Lampert post-doc 2002-2004 University of Bochum, Germany
Ruchira Sen post-doc 2007-2010 SGGS College, Chandigarh
Jon Seal post-doc 2009-2013 University of Texas at Tyler
Katrin Kellner post-doc 2010-2013 University of Texas at Tyler
Quinn McFrederick post-doc 2011-2013 UC Riverside
Quinn S. McFrederick post-doc 2011-2013 UC Riverside
Chad Smith post-doc 2013-2017 Assembly Biosciences
Abigail Green research scientist 2000-2003 Caltech
Jarrod J. Scott research scientist 2003-2006 UW Madison (Microtree)
Heather Ishak research scientist 2006-2012 Stanford
Melissa Kardish research scientist 2012-2014 UC Davis (Marine Ecology Tree)
Alexis Carlson research scientist 2014-2017 UT Austin
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Mueller UG, Himler AG, Farrior CE. (2023) Life history, nest longevity, sex ratio, and nest architecture of the fungus-growing ant Mycetosoritis hartmanni (Formicidae: Attina). Plos One. 18: e0289146
Mueller UG, Juenger TE, Kardish MR, et al. (2021) Artificial Selection on Microbiomes To Breed Microbiomes That Confer Salt Tolerance to Plants. Msystems. e0112521
Luiso J, Kellner K, Matthews AE, et al. (2020) High diversity and multiple invasions to North America by fungi grown by the northern-most Trachymyrmex and Mycetomoellerius ant species Fungal Ecology. 44: 100878
Senula SF, Scavetta JT, Banta JA, et al. (2019) Potential Distribution of Six North American Higher-Attine Fungus-Farming Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Species. Journal of Insect Science (Online). 19
Smith CC, Weber JN, Mikheyev AS, et al. (2019) Landscape genomics of an obligate mutualism: Concordant and discordant population structures between the leafcutter ant Atta texana and its two main fungal symbiont types. Molecular Ecology
Solomon SE, Rabeling C, Sosa‐Calvo J, et al. (2019) The molecular phylogenetics of Trachymyrmex Forel ants and their fungal cultivars provide insights into the origin and coevolutionary history of ‘higher‐attine’ ant agriculture Systematic Entomology. 44: 939-956
Fang C, Chang F, Duong P, et al. (2019) Colony fitness and garden growth in the asexual fungus-growing ant Mycocepurus smithii (Attini, Formicidae) Insectes Sociaux. 67: 35-49
Fang C, Mueller UG. (2019) A new type of egg produced by foundress queens of Atta texana (Attini, Formicidae) Insectes Sociaux. 66: 601-609
Mueller UG, Kardish MR, Ishak HD, et al. (2018) Phylogenetic patterns of ant-fungus associations indicate that farming strategies, not only a superior fungal cultivar, explain the ecological success of leafcutter ants. Molecular Ecology
Carlson AL, Ishak HD, Kurian J, et al. (2017) Nuclear populations of the multinucleate fungus of leafcutter ants can be dekaryotized and recombined to manipulate growth of nutritive hyphal nodules harvested by the ants. Mycologia. 1-15
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