Imai, Hirotami T.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Retired from the National Institute of Genetics, Yata 1,111 Mishima, Shizuoka-ken 411 (Japan).

PUBLICATIONS

 * 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: 363-37


 * 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 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


 * [[Media:Taylor et al 1991.pdf|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 PDF]]


 * 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


 * 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