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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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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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, 2021 254 literature records of phoresy from 1857 to ...
Leshon Lee (9138842) +5 more
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Revista Chilena de Entomología, 2020 Some species of pseudoscorpions perform a mechanism known as phoresy, attach themselves to other organisms for transportation. In this work, Americhernes oblongus (Pseudoscorpiones: Chernetidae) is reported as a phoront on a species of fly belonging to ...
Ramy Jhasser Martínez +3 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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Persian Journal of Acarology, 2022 Two new species of Pavania (Acari: Heterostigmata: Dolichocybidae) phoretic on dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scara-baeidae), P. neoafricana sp. nov. has been collected on Heliocopris neptunus in Tanzania, and P. madagascariensis sp. nov.
Alexander Khaustov, Andrey Frolov
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Physical Review E, 2011 This paper presents a unified theory of phoretic phenomena in single-component fluids. Simple formulas are given for the phoretic velocities of small inert force-free non-Brownian particles migrating through otherwise quiescent single-component gases and liquids and animated by a gradient in the fluid's temperature (thermophoresis), pressure ...
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Insect ectoparasites from wild passerine birds in the Azores Islands
Parasite, 2020 A total of 266 wild passerine birds (Passeriformes) representing eight species and nine subspecies from three islands of the Archipelago of the Azores were examined for ectoparasites. Two species of louse-flies Ornithomya avicularia and Ornithoica turdi (
Oslejskova Lucie +6 more
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Zoologia (Curitiba), 2009 In this note, the occurrence of phoresy between larvae of Rheotanitarsus sp. (Diptera: Chironomidae) and larvae of Heteragrion sp. (Odonata: Megapodagrionidae) and of unidentified genera of Calopterygidae (Odonata) collected in a first-order stream in an
Beatriz F. J. Vescovi Rosa +3 more
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New records of heterostigmatic mites (Acari: Heterostimatina) from dry rice cultivation of Gorgan, northern Iran [PDF]
Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics, 2022 View on Scopus Gorgan, is a city in northern Iran where its moderate and humid climate and fertile soil provides an appropriate condition for various arthropods and crops.
Vahid Rahiminejad +2 more
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