peer-reviewed publications
*student author
Matthews, A.E., Kellner, K., Seal, J.N., 2021. Male-biased dispersal in a fungus-gardening ant symbiosis. Ecology and Evolution 11, 2307-2320.
Matthews, A.E., Rowan, C., Stone, C., Kellner, K., Seal, J.N. 2020. Development, characterization, and cross-amplification of polymorphic microsatellite markers for North American Trachymyrmex and Mycetomoellerius ants. BMC Research Notes, 13, 173.
Luiso, J., Kellner, K., Matthews, A.E., Mueller, U.G., Seal, J.N. 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, S.F., Scavetta, J.T., Banta, J.A., Mueller, U.G., Seal, J.N., Kellner, K., 2020. Potential Distribution of Six North American Higher-Attine Fungus-Farming Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Species. Journal of Insect Science.
Smith, C.C., Weber, J.N., Mikheyev, A.S., Roces, F., Bollazzi, M., Kellner, K., Seal, J., Mueller, U.G., 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 28, 2831-2845.
Kellner, K., Kardish, M.R., Seal, J.N., Linksvayer, T.A., & Mueller, U.G. (2017) Symbiont-mediated host-parasite dynamics in a fungus-gardening ant. Microbial Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-017-1124-6. pdf
DeMilto, A.M.*, Rouquette, M., Mueller, U.G., Kellner, K. & Seal, J.N. (2017) Effects of substrate, ant and fungal species on plant fiber degradation in a fungus-gardening ant symbiosis. Journal of Insect Physiology, 98, 301–308. pdf
Kellner, K., Ishak, H.D., Linksvayer, T.A. & Mueller, U.G. (2015) Bacterial community composition and diversity in an ancestral ant fungus symbiosis. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 91. pdf
Kellner, K., Fernández-Marín, H., Ishak, H.D., Sen, R., Linksvayer, T.A. & Mueller, U.G. (2013a) Co-evolutionary patterns and diversification of ant-fungus associations in the asexual fungus-farming ant Mycocepurus smithii in Panama. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 26, 1353–1362. pdf
Kellner, K., Seal, J.N. & Heinze, J. (2013b) Sex at the margins: Parthenogenesis vs. facultative and obligate sex in a Neotropical ant. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 26, 108–117. pdf
McFrederick, Q.S., Cannone, J.J., Gutell, R.R., Kellner, K., Plowes, R.M. & Mueller, U.G. (2013) Host specificity between Hymenoptera and lactobacilli is the exception rather than the rule. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 79, 1803–1812. pdf
Ishak, H.D., Plowes, R., Sen, R., Kellner, K., Meyer, E., Estrada, D.A., Dowd, S.E. & Mueller, U.G. (2011) Bacterial diversity in Solenopsis invicta and Solenopsis geminata ant colonies characterized by 16S amplicon 454 pyrosequencing. Microbial Ecology, 61, 821–831. pdf
Kellner, K. & Heinze, J. (2011a) Mechanism of facultative parthenogenesis in the ant Platythyrea punctata. Evolutionary Ecology, 25, 77–89. pdf
Kellner, K. & Heinze, J. (2011b) Absence of nepotism in genetically heterogeneous colonies of a clonal ant. Ethology, 117, 556–564. pdf
Seal, J.N., Kellner, K., Trindl, A. & Heinze, J. (2011) Phylogeography of the parthenogenic ant Platythyrea punctata: Highly successful colonization of the West Indies by a poor disperser. Journal of Biogeography, 38, 868–882. pdf
Barth, M.B., Kellner, K. & Heinze, J. (2010) The police are not the army: context-dependent aggressiveness in a clonal ant. Biology Letters, 6, 329–332. pdf
Kellner, K., Barth, B. & Heinze, J. (2010) Colony fusion causes within-colony variation in a parthenogenetic ant. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 64, 737–746. pdf
Brunner, E., Kellner, K. & Heinze, J. (2009) Policing and dominance behaviour in the parthenogenetic ant Platythyrea punctata. Animal Behaviour, 78, 1427–1431. pdf
Kellner, K., Trindl, A., Heinze, J. & D’Ettorre, P. (2007) Polygyny and polyandry in small ant societies. Molecular Ecology, 16, 2363–2369. pdf
D’Ettorre, P., Kellner, K., Delabie, J.H.C. & Heinze, J. (2005) Number of queens in founding associations of the ponerine ant Pachycondyla villosa. Insectes Sociaux, 52, 327–332. pdf
Matthews, A.E., Rowan, C., Stone, C., Kellner, K., Seal, J.N. 2020. Development, characterization, and cross-amplification of polymorphic microsatellite markers for North American Trachymyrmex and Mycetomoellerius ants. BMC Research Notes, 13, 173.
Luiso, J., Kellner, K., Matthews, A.E., Mueller, U.G., Seal, J.N. 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, S.F., Scavetta, J.T., Banta, J.A., Mueller, U.G., Seal, J.N., Kellner, K., 2020. Potential Distribution of Six North American Higher-Attine Fungus-Farming Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Species. Journal of Insect Science.
Smith, C.C., Weber, J.N., Mikheyev, A.S., Roces, F., Bollazzi, M., Kellner, K., Seal, J., Mueller, U.G., 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 28, 2831-2845.
Kellner, K., Kardish, M.R., Seal, J.N., Linksvayer, T.A., & Mueller, U.G. (2017) Symbiont-mediated host-parasite dynamics in a fungus-gardening ant. Microbial Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-017-1124-6. pdf
DeMilto, A.M.*, Rouquette, M., Mueller, U.G., Kellner, K. & Seal, J.N. (2017) Effects of substrate, ant and fungal species on plant fiber degradation in a fungus-gardening ant symbiosis. Journal of Insect Physiology, 98, 301–308. pdf
Kellner, K., Ishak, H.D., Linksvayer, T.A. & Mueller, U.G. (2015) Bacterial community composition and diversity in an ancestral ant fungus symbiosis. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 91. pdf
Kellner, K., Fernández-Marín, H., Ishak, H.D., Sen, R., Linksvayer, T.A. & Mueller, U.G. (2013a) Co-evolutionary patterns and diversification of ant-fungus associations in the asexual fungus-farming ant Mycocepurus smithii in Panama. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 26, 1353–1362. pdf
Kellner, K., Seal, J.N. & Heinze, J. (2013b) Sex at the margins: Parthenogenesis vs. facultative and obligate sex in a Neotropical ant. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 26, 108–117. pdf
McFrederick, Q.S., Cannone, J.J., Gutell, R.R., Kellner, K., Plowes, R.M. & Mueller, U.G. (2013) Host specificity between Hymenoptera and lactobacilli is the exception rather than the rule. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 79, 1803–1812. pdf
Ishak, H.D., Plowes, R., Sen, R., Kellner, K., Meyer, E., Estrada, D.A., Dowd, S.E. & Mueller, U.G. (2011) Bacterial diversity in Solenopsis invicta and Solenopsis geminata ant colonies characterized by 16S amplicon 454 pyrosequencing. Microbial Ecology, 61, 821–831. pdf
Kellner, K. & Heinze, J. (2011a) Mechanism of facultative parthenogenesis in the ant Platythyrea punctata. Evolutionary Ecology, 25, 77–89. pdf
Kellner, K. & Heinze, J. (2011b) Absence of nepotism in genetically heterogeneous colonies of a clonal ant. Ethology, 117, 556–564. pdf
Seal, J.N., Kellner, K., Trindl, A. & Heinze, J. (2011) Phylogeography of the parthenogenic ant Platythyrea punctata: Highly successful colonization of the West Indies by a poor disperser. Journal of Biogeography, 38, 868–882. pdf
Barth, M.B., Kellner, K. & Heinze, J. (2010) The police are not the army: context-dependent aggressiveness in a clonal ant. Biology Letters, 6, 329–332. pdf
Kellner, K., Barth, B. & Heinze, J. (2010) Colony fusion causes within-colony variation in a parthenogenetic ant. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 64, 737–746. pdf
Brunner, E., Kellner, K. & Heinze, J. (2009) Policing and dominance behaviour in the parthenogenetic ant Platythyrea punctata. Animal Behaviour, 78, 1427–1431. pdf
Kellner, K., Trindl, A., Heinze, J. & D’Ettorre, P. (2007) Polygyny and polyandry in small ant societies. Molecular Ecology, 16, 2363–2369. pdf
D’Ettorre, P., Kellner, K., Delabie, J.H.C. & Heinze, J. (2005) Number of queens in founding associations of the ponerine ant Pachycondyla villosa. Insectes Sociaux, 52, 327–332. pdf