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Imai, Hirotami T.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Retired from the National Institute of Genetics, Yata 1,111 Mishima, Shizuoka-ken 411 (Japan).
PUBLICATIONS
- Crosland, M.W.J., Crozier, R.H., Imai, H.T. 1988. Evidence for several sibling biological species centred on Myrmecia pilosula (F. Smith) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. Aust. Entomol. Soc. 27: 13-14.
- Goñi, B., Imai, H.T., Kubota, M., Kondo, M., Yong, H.-S., Tho, Y.P. 1982. Chromosome observations of tropical ants in western Malaysia and Singapore. Annu. Rep. Natl. Inst. Genet. Jpn. 32: 71-73.
- Goñi, B., Zolessi, L. C. de, Imai, H. T. 1984 [1983]. Karyotypes of thirteen ant species from Uruguay (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Caryologia 36: 363-371.
- Hung, A.C.F., Imai, H.T., Kubota, M. 1972. The chromosomes of nine ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Taiwan, Republic of China. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 6 65: 1023-1025.
- Imai, H.T. 1966b. The chromosome observation techniques of ants and the chromosomes of Formicinae and Myrmicinae. Acta Hymenopterol. 2: 119-131.
- Imai, H.T. 1971. Karyological studies of Japanese ants II. Species differentiation in Aphaenogaster; with special regard to their morphology, distribution and chromosomes. Mushi 44: 137-151.
- Imai, H.T., Baroni Urbani, C., Kubota, M., Sharma, G.P., Narasimhanna, M.H., Das, B.C. 1984. Karyological survey of Indian ants. Jpn. J. Genet. 59: 1-32.
- Imai, H.T., Brown, W.L., Jr., Kubota, M., Yong, H.-S., Tho, Y.P. 1984. Chromosome observations on tropical ants from western Malaysia. II. Annu. Rep. Natl. Inst. Genet. Jpn. 34: 66-69.
- Imai, H.T., Crozier, R.H., Taylor, R.W. 1977. Karyotype evolution in Australian ants. Chromosoma (Berl.) 59: 341-393.
- Imai, H.T., Kihara, A., Kondoh, M., Kubota, M., Kuribayashi, S., Ogata, K., Onoyama, K., Taylor, R.W., Terayama, M., Yoshimura, M., Ugawa, Y. 2003. Ants of Japan. 224 pp, Gakken, Japan.
- Imai, H.T., Kubota, M. 1972. Karyological studies of Japanese ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) III. Karyotypes of nine species in Ponerinae, Formicinae and Myrmicinae. Chromosoma (Berl.) 37: 193-200.
- Imai, H.T., Kubota, M. 1975. Chromosome polymorphism in the ant Pheidole nodus. Chromosoma (Berl.) 51: 391-399.
- Imai, H.T., Kubota, M., Brown, W.L., Jr., Ihara, M., Tohari, M., Pranata, R.I. 1985. Chromosome observations on tropical ants from Indonesia. Annu. Rep. Natl. Inst. Genet. Jpn. 35: 46-48.
- Imai, H.T., Taylor, R.W. 1986. The exceptionally low chromosome number n=2 in an Australian bulldog ant Myrmecia piliventris Smith. Annu. Rep. Natl. Inst. Genet. Jpn. 36: 59-61.
- Imai, H.T., Taylor, R.W., Crozier, R.H. 1994. Experimental bases for the minimum interaction theory. I. Chromosome evolution in ants of the Myrmecia pilosula species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae). Jpn. J. Genet. 69: 137-182.
- Imai, H.T., Taylor, R.W., Kubota, M., Ogata, K., Wada, M.Y. 1991 [1990]. Notes on the remarkable karyology of the primitive ant Nothomyrmecia macrops, and of the related genus Myrmecia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Camb.) 97: 133-140.
- Imai, H.T., Yosida, T.H. 1965. Chromosome observation in Japanese ants. Annu. Rep. Natl. Inst. Genet. Jpn. 15: 64-66.
- Itow, T., Kobayashi, K., Kubota, M., Ogata, K., Imai, H.T., Crozier, R.H. 1984. The reproductive cycle of the queenless ant Pristomyrmex pungens. Insectes Soc. 31: 87-102.
- Ohnishi, H., Imai, H.T., Yamamoto, M.T. 2003. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of ant subfamily relationship inferred from rDNA sequences. “Genes Genet. Syst.” 78: 419-425.
- Tjan, K.N., Imai, H.T., Kubota, M., Brown, W.L., Jr., Gotwald, W.H., Jr., Yong, H.-S., Leh, C. 1986. Chromosome observations of Sarawak ants. Annu. Rep. Natl. Inst. Genet. Jpn. 36: 57.