Myrmecia pilosula , an Ant with Only One Pair of Chromosomes
- 14 March 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 231 (4743) , 1278
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.231.4743.1278
Abstract
A new sibling species of the primitive Australian ant Myrmecia pilosula has a chromosome number of n = 1. C-banding techniques confirm that the two chromosomes of workers are homologous. Males are haploid, as in other Hymenoptera, and their somatic cells contain only a single chromosome. This new species is potentially of great importance in both laboratory and field studies on gene organization.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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