Imai, H.T.

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

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.

Open access, licensed under CC BY 4.0. © 2011 The Author(s).

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