Aquatic Mites from Genes to Communities
Title | Aquatic Mites from Genes to Communities PDF eBook |
Author | Heather Proctor |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 2013-03-09 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9401704295 |
Although the ancestral home of chelicerates was the sea, the vast majority of modern species live on land. Most students of spiders and mites also restrict themselves to terrestrial habitats. However, a surprising number of mites (Arachnida: Acari) have returned to a watery existence. Approximately 7000 species from the Mesostigmata, Astigmata, Oribatida, and especially the Prostigmata, now live in marine and freshwater habitats. In Aquatic Mites, a dozen chapters explore the distribution, ecology, behavior, genetics, and evolution of the most diverse of these astonishing arachnids. The results of these studies raise as many interesting questions as they answer, and should provoke more investigations of the biology of freshwater and marine Acari.
Distribution of Aquatic Mites (Arachnida
Title | Distribution of Aquatic Mites (Arachnida PDF eBook |
Author | Heather C. Proctor |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Aquatic organisms |
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The Taxonomy, Distribution, and Developmental Stages of Ohio Water Mites
Title | The Taxonomy, Distribution, and Developmental Stages of Ohio Water Mites PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Merrill Crowell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 77 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Arachnida |
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A Checklist of the Ethiopian Water Mites with Notes on Their Distribution
Title | A Checklist of the Ethiopian Water Mites with Notes on Their Distribution PDF eBook |
Author | Christiaan Andries Jansen Van Rensburg |
Publisher | |
Pages | 51 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Arachnida |
ISBN | 9780869902103 |
Halacarid Mites (Arachnida: Acari)
Title | Halacarid Mites (Arachnida: Acari) PDF eBook |
Author | J. Green |
Publisher | |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Arachnida |
ISBN |
Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates
Title | Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates PDF eBook |
Author | James H. Thorp |
Publisher | Academic Press |
Pages | 1036 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0123748550 |
"The third edition of Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates continues the tradition of in-depth coverage of the biology, ecology, phylogeny, and identification of freshwater invertebrates from the USA and Canada. This text serves as an authoritative single source for a broad coverage of the anatomy, physiology, ecology, and phylogeny of all major groups of invertebrates in inland waters of North America, north of Mexico." --Book Jacket.
Mites: Ecology, Evolution & Behaviour
Title | Mites: Ecology, Evolution & Behaviour PDF eBook |
Author | David Evans Walter |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 505 |
Release | 2013-10-08 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9400771649 |
More than 40,000 species of mites have been described, and up to 1 million may exist on earth. These tiny arachnids play many ecological roles including acting as vectors of disease, vital players in soil formation, and important agents of biological control. But despite the grand diversity of mites, even trained biologists are often unaware of their significance. Mites: Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour (2nd edition) aims to fill the gaps in our understanding of these intriguing creatures. It surveys life cycles, feeding behaviour, reproductive biology and host-associations of mites without requiring prior knowledge of their morphology or taxonomy. Topics covered include evolution of mites and other arachnids, mites in soil and water, mites on plants and animals, sperm transfer and reproduction, mites and human disease, and mites as models for ecological and evolutionary theories.