Overview
- Explores the distribution, ecology, behaviour, genetics and evolution of the most diverse of these astonishing arachnids
- The results of these studies raise as many interesting questions as they answer, and should provoke more investigations of the biology of freshwater and marine Acari
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Although the ancestral home of chelicerates was the sea, the vast majority of modern species live on land. Most students of spiders and mites also restrict themselves to terrestrial habitats. However, a surprising number of mites (Arachnida: Acari) have returned to a watery existence. Approximately 7000 species from the Mesostigmata, Astigmata, Oribatida, and especially the Prostigmata, now live in marine and freshwater habitats. In Aquatic Mites, a dozen chapters explore the distribution, ecology, behavior, genetics, and evolution of the most diverse of these astonishing arachnids. The results of these studies raise as many interesting questions as they answer, and should provoke more investigations of the biology of freshwater and marine Acari.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Aquatic Mites from Genes to Communities
Editors: Heather C. Proctor
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0429-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2703-1Published: 18 November 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6710-4Published: 01 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-0429-8Published: 09 March 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 210
Number of Illustrations: 37 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Reprinted from EXPERIMENTAL AND APPLIED ACAROLOGY, 34:1-2
Topics: Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Animal Genetics and Genomics, Invertebrates