Molecular phylogeny reveals Varroa mites are not a separate family but a subfamily of Laelapidae [PDF]
Scientific ReportsVarroa mites, notorious for parasitizing honeybees, are generally classified as Varroidae. Their extremely modified morphologies and behaviors have led to debates regarding their phylogenetic position and classification as an independent family.
Seunghyun Lee +2 more
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Divergence time of mites of the family Laelapidae based on mitochondrial barcoding region. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 Using the mitochondrial barcoding region to correlate research with 58 species in 19 genera of the family Laelapidae with the aim of determining the origin, phylogenetic relationships, and biogeographic historical distribution characteristics of mites in
Huijuan Yang, Ting Chen, Wenge Dong
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Molecular Identification and Phylogenetic Analysis of Laelapidae Mites (Acari: Mesostigmata)
Animals, 2023 The family Laelapidae (Dermanyssoidea) is morphologically and ecologically the most diverse group of Mesostigmata mites. Although molecular genetic data are widely used in taxonomic identification and phylogenetic analysis, most classifications in ...
Loreta Griciuvienė +2 more
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Myrmozercon mites are highly host specific: two new species of Myrmozercon Berlese associated with sympatric Camponotus ants in southern Quintana Roo, Mexico [PDF]
PeerJTwo new species of Myrmozercon, M. serratus sp. nov. and M. spatulatus sp. nov., are described based on adults and deutonymphs collected in association with ants in Mexico. They represent the first records of this genus from the Neotropic s.s.
Gabriela Pérez-Lachaud +3 more
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Arthropod parasites of Antarctic and Subantarctic birds and pinnipeds: A review of host-parasite associations [PDF]
International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2020 Due to its cold and dry climate and scarcity of ice-free land, Antarctica has one of the most extreme environments on our planet. To survive in the Antarctic region, parasitic arthropods must either remain closely associated with their hosts throughout ...
Ralph Eric Thijl Vanstreels +2 more
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A Highly Contiguous Genome Assembly of a Polyphagous Predatory Mite Stratiolaelaps scimitus (Womersley) (Acari: Laelapidae) [PDF]
Genome Biology and Evolution, 2021 Xuguo Zhou, Zhan Yin, Sujal Phadke
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Edaphic mesostigmatid mites (Parasitiformes, Mesostigmata) in a region of the Pampa biome of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil [PDF]
Ciência Rural, 2020 : The diversity of edaphic mites in Brazilian natural environments is little known, especially in the Pampa biome, in southern region of Brazil. The objective of this study was to evaluate the diversity and abundance of edaphic fauna of mesostigmatid ...
Adriane da Fonseca Duarte +4 more
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Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2022 Akodon montensis is dominant in the Urugua-í Provincial Park in northeastern Argentina. We analyse the effect of variables related to the hosts and the environment on the parasitic burden (PB), and specific richness and mean abundance of Laelapidae ...
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INCIDENCE OF ECTOPARASITES ASSOCIATED WITH RODENT SPECIES Mus musculus L. AND Arvicanthus niloticus desmarest. [PDF]
Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology, 2004 Three families of ectoparasites associated with wild house mouse were recorded as Macronyssidae, Laelapidae and Dermanyssidae, the first family represented by 4 species i.e Omithonyssus bacoti (Hirst), Hirstionyssus sp < /em>. , Steatonyssus sp &
Eman Bakry +3 more
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A faunistic study on laelapid mites in Urmia, Iran [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 2017 Based on this survey 23 species of family Laelapidae have been identified which three species of them are reported as new for Iranian mites fauna, that are marked with asterisk.
Mohammadreza Kavianpour +3 more
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