No Evidence That the Phoretic Mite Poecilochirus carabi Influences Mate Choice or Fitness in the Host Burying Beetle Nicrophorus nepalensis [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionMate choice is a fundamental aspect of sexual selection where the “chooser” chooses a “courter” by assessing a variety of traits that communicate potential fitness.
Brendan Lan +4 more
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Hitchhiking across continents: phoresy of pseudoscorpions (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones) on Diptera, with new European records [PDF]
ZooKeysPhoresy is an important dispersal strategy in pseudoscorpions, yet associations with Diptera have not been comprehensively revised for more than two decades.
Jana Christophoryová +3 more
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Current Biology, 2017 White et al. introduce the phenomenon of phoresy - animals hitching a ride on other animals.
Levi Morran +2 more
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A transitional fossil mite (Astigmata: Levantoglyphidae fam. n.) from the early Cretaceous suggests gradual evolution of phoresy-related metamorphosis [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Metamorphosis is a key innovation allowing the same species to inhabit different environments and accomplish different functions, leading to evolutionary success in many animal groups.
Pavel B. Klimov +6 more
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Disparity of Phoresy in Mesostigmatid Mites upon Their Specific Carrier Ips typographus (Coleoptera: Scolytinae) [PDF]
Insects, 2020 Ips typographus Linnaeus, 1758, the most important pest of Norway spruce (Picea abies Linnaeus, 1753) from Eurasia has damaged, in the last decades, a large area of forest in Romania.
Marius Paraschiv, Gabriela Isaia
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Dispersion and new shelters offered by ants: myrmecophoresy of tardigrades [PDF]
Frontiers in ZoologyThe present study investigates the potential role of ants as dispersal hosts for tardigrades and for the first time provides evidence of ant-mediated tardigrade phoresy.
Daniele Giannetti +6 more
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European Journal of Entomology, 2004 Of 31 species of coprophagous beetles from the following families: Aphodiidae, Geotrupidae, Scarabaeidae, individuals of 25 species carried deutonymphs of Uropoda orbicularis (Müller, 1776).
Daria Bajerlein
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Hitchhiking through life: a review of phoresy in Uropodina mites (Parasitiformes: Mesostigmata)
The European Zoological JournalSeveral important papers discussing phoretic dispersal in animals have appeared in recent years, but the nature and evolutionary significance of the phenomenon are still not fully understood.
Jerzy Andrzej Błoszyk +2 more
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The Phoresy of Antherophagus [PDF]
Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, 1919 William Morton Wheeler
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Ancient Ephemeroptera-Collembola symbiosis fossilized in amber predicts contemporary phoretic associations. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 X-ray computed tomography is used to identify a unique example of fossilized phoresy in 16 million-year-old Miocene Dominican amber involving a springtail being transported by a mayfly.
David Penney +6 more
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