Cytogenetic Studies of the Neotropical Ant Genus Ectatomma (Formicidae: Ectatomminae: Ectatommini)

Sociobiology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 555-561

  Barros, Luisa Antônia Campos ^a   Mariano, Cléa S F ^a   De Sousa Borges, Davileide ^b   Pompolo, Silvia G ^a   Delabie, Jacques H C ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^b Centro de Pesquisas do Cacau   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chromosome; Karyotype; Minimum interaction theory

Indexed keywords

ECTATOMMA; ECTATOMMA BRUNNEUM; ECTATOMMA EDENTATUM; ECTATOMMA MUTICUM; ECTATOMMA PERMAGNUM; ECTATOMMA TUBERCULATUM; ECTATOMMINAE; ECTATOMMINI; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 44149102715     PISSN: 03616525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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