| Value |
1
chromosome pair
|
| Organism |
Ant Myrmecia pilosula |
| Reference |
Crosland MW, Crozier RH. Myrmecia pilosula, an Ant with Only One Pair of Chromosomes. Science. 1986 Mar 14 231(4743):1278 DOI: 10.1126/science.231.4743.1278 abstractPubMed ID17839565
|
| Method |
Abstract: "C-banding techniques confirm that the two chromosomes of workers are homologous." |
| Comments |
Abstract: "A new sibling species of the primitive Australian ant Myrmecia pilosula has a chromosome number of n = 1... 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." |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
116987 |