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JON N. SEAL

Integrative Biology/Patterson Laboratories University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station #C0930 Austin, TX 78712, USA

Tel (512) 471-7619 Fax (512) 471-3878 E-mail: jon.seal@mail.utexas.edu

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION

University of Missouri-St. Louis German B.A. 1994 University of Missouri-St. Louis Biology B.S. 1994 University of Missouri-St. Louis Tropical Ecology and Conservation M.S. 1999 Florida State University Organismal Biology Ph.D. 2006 University of Regensburg Molecular Ecology postdoc, 2007-2009 University of Texas-Austin Microbial Ecology postdoc, 2009-2011 University of Texas-Austin Microbial Ecology research associate 2011- Organization for Tropical Studies (Tropical Biology Fundamentals course) summer 1999

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

· Research Associate, University of Texas at Austin, 2011- present · Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas at Austin, 2009-2011 · Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Research Associate), University of Regensburg, 2007-2009

PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE

· Behavioral physiology and functional ecology of obligate symbioses · Microbial and molecular ecology of social insects and their symbionts · Next generation sequencing of microbial communities · Biodiversity of North and Central America and the West Indies

PUBLICATIONS

Seal, J.N. & Tschinkel, W.R. In press. The under-appreciated non-leafcutting Attini: A Response to Leal et al. (2011). Annals of the Entomological Society of America.

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

Seal, J.N. & Tschinkel, W.R. (2010) Distribution of the Fungus-Gardening Ant, Trachymyrmex septentrionalis during and after a record drought. Insect Conservation and Diversity 3: 134-142

Seal, J.N. (2009) Scaling of body weight and fat content in fungus-gardening ant queens: does this explain why leaf-cutting ants found claustrally? Insectes Sociaux, 56, 135-141.

Seal J.N. and Tschinkel W.R. (2008) Food limitation in the fungus-gardening ant, Trachymyrmex septentrionalis. Ecological Entomology 33:597-607

Seal JN, Tschinkel WR (2007) Energetics of newly mated queens and colony founding in the fungus-gardening ants Cyphomyrmex rimosus and Trachymyrmex septentrionalis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Physiological Entomology 32:8-15

Seal JN, Tschinkel WR (2007) Complexity in an obligate mutualism: Do fungus-gardening ants know what makes their garden grow? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61:1151-1160

Seal JN, Tschinkel WR (2007) Co-evolution and the superorganism: switching cultivars does not alter the performance of fungus-gardening ant colonies. Functional Ecology 21:988-997

Seal JN, Tschinkel WR (2006) Colony productivity of the fungus-gardening ant, Trachymyrmex septentrionalis McCook, in a Florida pine forest (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 99:673-682

Seal JN, Hunt JH (2004) Food supplementation affects colony-level life history traits in the annual social wasp Polistes metricus (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Insectes Sociaux 51:239-242

Seal JN (2002) Does Polistes instabilis de Saussure (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) investment predict nest defense? Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 75:335-338