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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.25849/myrmecol.news_015:001
  • Open Access: CC BY 4.0
  • Author: Imai, H.T.
  • Year: 2011
  • Title: A productive friendship - my work in ant cytogenetics with Ross H. Crozier
  • Journal: Myrmecological News
  • Volume: 15
  • Pages: 1-5
  • Type of contribution: Review Article
  • Supplementary material: No
  • 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.
  • Key words: Formicidae, Myrmecia pilosula, cytogenetics, population genetics, taxonomy, chromosome evolution, review.
  • Publisher: The Austrian Society of Entomofaunistics
  • ISSN: Print: 1994-4136 - Online: 1997-3500