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Origins of asexuality in
, 2008 Background Obligate asexual reproduction is rare in the animal kingdom. Generally, asexuals are considered evolutionary dead ends that are unable to radiate. The phytophagous mite genus Bryobia contains a large number of asexual species.
Johannes A.J. Breeuwer +8 more
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Improved mite sampling may reduce acaricide use in roses
California Agriculture, 1995 Spider mites are considered to be the most important invertebrate pests of commercial field-grown rose plants, but sampling methods and treatment thresholds have been subjective.
J Karlik, P Goodell, G Osteen
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Insects, 2016 Integrated pest management (IPM) tactics may effectively control focal pests, but it is also important to test the compatibility of different tactics, and consider non-target organisms.
Tülin Özsisli +1 more
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The sejugal furrow in camel spiders and acariform mites [PDF]
, 2012 Camel spiders (Arachnida: Solifugae) are one of the arachnid groups characterised by a prosomal dorsal shield composed of three distinct elements: the pro-, meso- and metapeltidium.
Kr\ufcger, Jessica +4 more
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A change in the bacterial community of spider mites decreases fecundity on multiple host plants
MicrobiologyOpen, 2019 Bacterial symbionts may influence the fitness of their herbivore hosts, but such effects have been poorly studied across most invertebrate groups. The spider mite, Tetranychus truncatus, is a polyphagous agricultural pest harboring various bacterial ...
Yu‐Xi Zhu +5 more
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The species composition of herbivorous acarofauna in the south of Western Siberia
Persian Journal of Acarology, 2022 As the species composition and distribution of spider mites and eriophyid mites in the open ground of the Siberian region are not actually studied, this line of research was the purpose of our work.
Ekaterina Ulyanova +2 more
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BMC Plant Biology, 2023 Background Six-spotted spider mite (Eotetranychus sexmaculatus) is one of the most damaging pests of tea (Camellia sinensis). E. sexmaculatus causes great economic loss and affects tea quality adversely.
Xiaoping Wang +8 more
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, 2009 Anti-predator defenses provided by complex webs of Tetranychus mites can severely impede the performance of generalist predatory mites, whereas this may not be true for specialist predatory mites.
Shimoda, T. +4 more
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Development and reproduction of spider mites Tetranychus turkestani (Acari: Tetranychidae) under water deficit condition in soybeans [PDF]
Pesticidi i Fitomedicina, 2014 One of the major pests of soybeans in Bulgaria is the spider mite Tetranychus turkestani Ug et Nik (Acari: Tetranychidae) and different results have been reported about the impact of water stress on its development and reproduction.
Ivelina Nikolova +2 more
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Developmental Dynamics, EarlyView.Abstract Background Jointed appendages represent one of the key innovations of arthropods, and thus understanding the development and evolution of these structures is important for the understanding of the evolutionary success of Arthropoda. In this paper, we analyze a cell cluster that was identified in a previous single‐cell sequencing (SCS ...
Brenda I. Medina‐Jiménez +2 more
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