Author:
Imai, H.T.

Year:
2011

DOI:
10.25849/myrmecol.news_015:001

Title:
A productive friendship - my work in ant cytogenetics with Ross H. Crozier

Journal:
Myrmecological News

Volume:
15

Pages:
1-5

URL:
www.myrmecologicalnews.org

Keywords:
Formicidae, Myrmecia pilosula, cytogenetics, population genetics, taxonomy, chromosome evolution, review.

Abstract:
Three myrmecologists (R.H. Crozier, R.W. Taylor and H.T. Imai) with different academic backgrounds and interests met in Australia in 1975. They later established an air-drying technique for ant chromosome observations and surveyed hundreds of Australian ant species centred around the Jack jumper Myrmecia pilosula, and proposed the so-called "Minimum Interaction Theory" (a new theory for chromosome evolution). This is an account of their work together.

Publisher:
The Austrian Society of Entomofaunistics

ISSN:
Print: 1994-4136 - Online: 1997-3500