Mueller, Ulrich G.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
W.M. Wheeler Lost Pines Professor, Section of Integrative Biology

M.A., Animal Behavior, Cornell University, 1986. Ph.D., Molecular Ecology and Behavior, Cornell University, 1992. Behavioral Evolution, Molecular Ecology, and Microbial Ecology: Dr. Mueller's research aims at understanding the evolution of organismal interactions, particularly the evolution of mutualisms and the evolution of social conflict and cooperation. Current research focuses largely on the coevolution between fungus-growing ants and their fungi, but Dr. Mueller admits to an inordinate fondness for social insects in general.

PUBLICATIONS

 * [[Media:Bacci et al 2009.pdf| Bacci, M., Jr.; Solomon, S. E.; Mueller, U. G.; Martins, V. G.; Carvalho, A. O. R.; Vieira, L. G. E.; Silva-Pinhati, A. C. O. 2009. Phylogeny of leafcutter ants in the genus Atta Fabricius (Formicidae: Attini) based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 51:427-437. PDF]]


 * Chapela, I. H.; Rehner, S. A.; Schultz, T. R.; Mueller, U. G. 1994. Evolutionary history of the symbiosis between fungus-growing ants and their fungi. Science (Washington, D. C.) 266:1691-1694. [1994-12-09] 123578


 * Green, A. M.; Mueller, U. G.; Adams, R. M. M. 2002. Extensive exchange of fungal cultivars between sympatric species of fungus-growing ants. Molecular Ecology 11:191-195. 131397


 * [[Media:Cover 2002.pdf|LaPolla, J. S., Cover, S.P. ; Mueller, U.G. 2002. Natural history of the mealybug-tending ant Acropyga epedana, with descriptions of the male and queen castes. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 128: 367-376 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Mueller&Rabeling 2008.pdf|Mueller, U. G.; 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. [2008-04-08] PDF]]


 * Mueller, U. G.; Wcislo, W. T. 1998. Nesting biology of the fungus-growing ant Cyphomyrmex longiscapus Weber (Attini, Formicidae). Insectes Sociaux 45:181-189. 131904


 * [[Media:Rabeling & Cover 2007.pdf|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. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Rabeling et al 2009.pdf| 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. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006781. PDF]]


 * Martins, J., Jr.; Solomon, S. E.; Mikheyev, A. S.; Mueller, U. G.; Ortiz, A.; Bacci, M., Jr. 2007. Nuclear mitochondrial-like sequences in ants: evidence from Atta cephalotes (Formicidae: Attini). Insect Molecular Biology 16:777-784. [2007-12]


 * Mikheyev, A. S.; Mueller, U. G. 2007. Genetic relationships between native and introduced populations of the little fire ant Wasmannia auropunctata. Diversity and Distributions 13:573-579. [2007-09] PDF 131869


 * Mikheyev, A. S.; Mueller, U. G.; Abbot, P. 2006. Cryptic sex and many-to-one coevolution in the fungus-growing ant symbiosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103:10702-10706. [2006-07-11] PDF 131870


 * [[Media:Schultz, Solomon & Mueller 2002.pdf| Schultz, T. R., S. A. Solomon and U. G. Mueller. 2002. Cryptic speciation in the fungus-growing ants Cyphomyrmex longiscapus Weber and Cyphomyrmex muellerei Schultz and Solomon, new species (Formicidae, Attini). Insectes Sociaux 49: 331-343 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Solomon et al 2008.pdf| Solomon, S. E.; Bacci, M., Jr.; Martins, J., Jr.; Vinha, G. G.; Mueller, U. G. 2008. Paleodistributions and comparative molecular phylogeography of leafcutter ants (Atta spp.) provide new insight into the origins of Amazonian diversity. PLoS ONE 3(7):e2738 (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002738). [2008-07-03] PDF]]


 * Yek, S. H.; Mueller, U. G. 2011. The metapleural gland of ants. Biological Reviews 86:774-791.