Experimental bases for the minimum interaction theory. I. Chromosome evolution in ants of the Myrmecia pilosula species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae)

Japanese Journal of Genetics

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 137-182

  Imai, Hirotami T ^a   Taylor, Robert W ^b   Crozier, Rossiter H ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b CSIRO ENTOMOLOGY   (Australia)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; KARYOTYPE EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; ROBERTSONIAN CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; MYRMECIA PILOSULA; MYRMECIINAE; ROBERTSONIA;

EID: 0028321445     PISSN: 0021504X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/jjg.69.137     Document Type: Article

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