Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, Volume 2010, Issue 1, 2010., 2010 The ectoparasitic gamasid mites found on small mammals are important arthropods in the field of medical entomology. This paper studied the distribution and ecological niches of ectoparasitic gamasid mites on small mammal hosts in Yunnan Province of southwest China.
Li-Qin Huang +4 more
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Attack and defense in a gamasid-oribatid mite predator-prey experiment – sclerotization outperforms chemical repellency [PDF]
Acarologia, 2016 Oribatid mites represent a diverse group of soil micro-arthropods. They have evolved a broad range of defensive chemical and morphological traits (e.g. sclerotization, ptychoidy, biomineralization). Chemical defense, rather than sclerotization, can provide protection against large predators (staphylinid beetles) and many oribatid mite species are also ...
Brückner, A. +3 more
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High-Arctic gamasid mites (Acari, Mesostigmata): community composition on Spitsbergen, Svalbard
Polar Research, 2011 This study investigates assemblages of mesostigmatid mites on Spitsbergen, in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, Norway. Soil samples were collected from three areas with differing vegetational communities in Adventdalen. The greatest gamasid mite density and species diversity was observed at the location with the richest vegetation cover, Dryas ...
Stephen J. Coulson +1 more
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Preliminary Study on Species Diversity and Community Characteristics of Gamasid Mites on Small Mammals in Three Parallel Rivers Area of China. [PDF]
Animals (Basel), 2022 (1) Background: Gamasid mites are a large group of arthropods, and some of them are of medical importance. Besides directly biting humans and causing dermatitis, some gamasid mites are the vector of rickettsialpox and potential vector of hemorrhagic ...
Zhou JX +9 more
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Domestic ventilation rates, indoor humidity and dust mite allergens : are our homes causing the asthma pandemic? [PDF]
, 2003 This paper is concerned with historical changes in domestic ventilation rates, relative humidity and the associated risk of house dust mite colonization.
McSharry, C +5 more
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Infestation and Seasonal Fluctuation of Gamasid Mites (Parasitiformes: Gamasida) on Indochinese Forest Rat, Rattus andamanensis (Rodentia: Muridae) in Southern Yunnan of China. [PDF]
Biology (Basel), 2021 A 12-month consecutive investigation was made at Jingha village in southern Yunnan of southwest China from April 2016 to March 2017. A total of 2053 Indochinese forest rats (Rattus andamanensis Blyth, 1860) were captured and examined, which account for ...
Yin PW +8 more
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Mite Infestation on <i>Rattus tanezum</i> rats in southwest China concerning risk models. [PDF]
Front Vet SciObjectiveThe Asian house rat (Rattus tanezumi) is an important infectious source and reservoir host for many zoonotic diseases, and its associated mites (chigger mites and gamasid mites) can act as vectors for these diseases.
Liu RJ +9 more
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Effect of improved home ventilation on asthma control and house dust mite allergen levels [PDF]
, 2009 The warm, humid environment in modern homes favours the dust mite population, but the effect of improved home ventilation on asthma control has not been established.
McMahon, A.D. +14 more
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Outbreak of tropical rat mite (Ornithonyssus bacoti) dermatitis in a home for disabled persons [PDF]
, 2007 Five mentally handicapped individuals living in a home for disabled persons in Southern Germany were seen in our outpatient department with pruritic, red papules predominantly located in groups on the upper extremities, neck, upper trunk and face.
Beck, W. +4 more
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Global Ecology and Biogeography, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 38-49, January 2020., 2020 Abstract Aim Positive relationships in compositional similarity between consumer and resource assemblages are widely known in free‐living taxa, but less is known about parasites and their hosts. We investigated whether congruent patterns of assemblage similarity across diverse taxa of hosts and parasites exist at a continental scale and quantified the ...
Boris W. Berkhout +8 more
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