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Boomsma, Jacobus Jan

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Top Publications Authored or Co-Authored by "Boomsma, Jacobus Jan"

Complementary symbiont contributions to plant decomposition in a fungus-farming termite
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Volume 111, No. 40, Year 2014, Citations 222
Identifying the core microbial community in the gut of fungus-growing termites
Molecular Ecology, Volume 23, No. 18, Year 2014, Citations 135
Worker caste determination in the army ant Eciton burchellii
Biology Letters, Volume 3, No. 5, Year 2007, Citations 64
Interaction specificity between leaf-cutting ants and vertically transmitted Pseudonocardia bacteria
BMC Evolutionary Biology, Volume 15, No. 1, Article 27, Year 2015, Citations 31
Asymmetric interaction specificity between two sympatric termites and their fungal symbionts
Ecological Entomology, Volume 32, No. 1, Year 2007, Citations 13

Institutional Spectrum

Most Recent Affiliations

Institution	Country	Start Year	End Year	Affiliated Years
Københavns Universitet	Denmark	1999	2022	24
University of Oxford	United Kingdom	1991	2018	28
University of Sussex	United Kingdom	2018	2018	1
Harvard University	United States	2009	2009	1
University of Exeter	United Kingdom	2009	2009	1
Universiteit Utrecht	Netherlands	1987	2004	18
Aarhus Universitet	Denmark	1990	2004	15

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