The Acari

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Life-history Strategies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The life strategies of mites

      • Ph. Lebrun, G. Van Impe, D. De Saint Georges-Gridelet, G. Wauthy, H. M. Andre

      Pages 3-22

   3. Life-history evolution of spider mites

      • M. W. Sabelis

      Pages 23-49

   4. Life-cycle strategies in unpredictably varying environments: genetic adaptations in a colonizing mite

      • W. Knülle

      Pages 51-55

   5. The evolutionary transformation of osmotic regulation in the life cycle of freshwater mites (Hydrachnidia)

      • R. Olomski

      Pages 57-64

   6. Development and life-history strategies in mussel mites (Hydrachnellae: Unionicolidae)

      • R. A. Baker

      Pages 65-73

3. Reproduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Spermatology in the Acari: systematic and functional implications

      • G. Alberti

      Pages 77-105

   3. The distribution, mechanisms and evolutionary significance of parthenogenesis in oribatid mites

      • R. A. Norton, S. C. Palmer

      Pages 107-136

   4. Indirect sperm transfer in prostigmatic mites from a phylogenetic viewpoint

      • H. Witte

      Pages 137-176

   5. Spermatophore deposition in relation to atmospheric humidity among terrestrial Parasitengonae (Prostigmata)

      • F.-E. Wendt

      Pages 177-178

   6. The role of Adlerocystis sp. in the reproduction of argasid ticks

      • B. Feldman-Muhsam

      Pages 179-190

   7. A scanning electron-microscopy study of spermatogenesis in Pergamasus barbarus Berl. (Gamasida)

      • W. Witalinski

      Pages 191-192

   8. Precise sex-ratio control in the pseudo-arrhenotokous phytoseiid mite Typhlodromus occidentalis Nesbitt

      • C. J. Nagelkerke, M. W. Sabelis

      Pages 193-207

   9. Sex ratio, fitness and capacity for population increase in Pyemotes tritici (L.-F. &M.) (Pyemotidae)

      • D. L. Wrensch, W. A. Bruce

      Pages 209-221

   10. Preliminary observations of ovoviviparity in the gall-forming mite, Aceria caulobius (Nal.) (Eriophyoidea: Eriophyidae)

       • E. de Lillo

       Pages 223-229

   11. Laboratory observations on duration of copulation and egg production of three Phytoseiid species fed on pollen

       • M. Castagnoli, M. Liguori

       Pages 231-239

   12. Precopulatory mate guarding in the spider mite, Tetranychus cinnabarinus (Boisd.) (Tetranychidae)

       • M. M. Enders

       Pages 241-242

4. Diapause, Development and Trophic Relations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243

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During the Inaugural Meeting of the European Association of Acarol­ ogists (EURAAC), held in Amsterdam in 1987, it was decided that the holding of a Symposium at regular intervals should be a major objective. With this in view, it was agreed that Professor Reinhart Schuster, the senior editor, be invited to accept the Presidency of the Association and, arising from that Office, to organize the first Symposium in Austria in 1988. There was strong support for a main theme focused on a particular aspect of acarology. From these discussions there emerged the proposal that emphasis be placed on aspects of reproduction, development and life-history strategies of the Acari. These were topics in the forefront of the discipline with exciting developments of interest not only to acarologists but to a wider audience because of the light they cast on fundamental processes in physiology, ecology and evolutionary biology. The object then was to invite a small number of key workers to present extended papers related to the main theme. There were seven of these all of which appear in the book. The remaining 51 contributions were offered papers a number of which fit within the framework of the Symposium theme.

• Vineyard
• acarology
• behavior
• ecology
• evolution
• evolutionary biology
• fauna
• food
• forest
• fungi
• influence
• mites
• plants
• soil
• systematics

• Zoological Institute, University of Graz, Austria

  Reinhart Schuster

• Invertebrate Zoology, School of Agriculture, University of Nottingham, UK

  Paul W. Murphy

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