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A fresh look at weight-estimation models for soil mites (Acari)

scholarly article in International Journal of Acarology, vol. 39 no. 1, February 2013

A new species of Clathrosperchonella Lundblad 1937 (Acariformes: Hydrachnidiae: Hydryphantoidea: Rhynchohydracaridae) from Brazil, with descriptions of the female, male and larva ⬇️

A new species of Rhynchohydracarus Lundblad 1936 (Acariformes: Hydrachnidiae: Hydryphantoidea: Rhynchohydracaridae) from central Brazil, with DNA barcodes, a key for known species and a proposal for the homologies of dorsalia, ventralia, lateralia an

scientific article published on 3 February 2022

A new species of the feather mite genus Titanolichus Gaud & Atyeo, 1996 (Acari: Astigmata: Pterolichidae) from the endangered orange-bellied parrot Neophema chrysogaster (Aves: Psittaciformes) from Australia

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A review of the family Barbutiidae (Acari: Raphignathoidea), with the description of two new species from Australia

scientific article published on 31 July 2003

A review of the genus Ledermuelleriopsis Willmann (Acari : Prostigmata : Stigmaeidae)

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Acari of Canada

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Application of DNA barcoding and morphometric analysis in differentiating cystacanths of Polymorphus species (Acanthocephala: Polymorphidae) from central Alberta, Canada

scientific article published on 07 September 2020

Aquatic Mites: From Genes to Communities – An Introduction

scientific article published in 2004

Aquatic invertebrates in final void water bodies at an open-cut coal mine in central Queensland

Are tree trunks habitats or highways? A comparison of oribatid mite assemblages from hoop-pine bark and litter

Asymmetry and polymorphism in males of the feather mite Michaelia neotropica Hernandes and Mironov (Acariformes: Astigmata: Freyanidae)

scientific article published in March 2018

Behavioural responses to potential dispersal cues in two economically important species of cereal-feeding eriophyid mites

scientific article

Biology of House Finch feather mites,Proctophyllodes pinnatus(Acari: Proctophyllodidae), parallels variation in preen gland secretions

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Can freshwater mites act as forensic tools?

scientific article published on 10 June 2009

Cohabitation of Six Species of Spiders in Webs of Cyrtophora moluccensis (Araneae, Araneidae) in Moorea, French Polynesia

scientific article published in 1992

Cophylogenetic assessment of New World warblers (Parulidae) and their symbiotic feather mites (Proctophyllodidae)

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Corrigendum to Asymmetry and polymorphism in males of the feather mite Michaelia neotropica Hernandes and Mironov (Acariformes: Astigmata: Freyanidae) [Zool Anz 273 (2018) 226–230]

scientific article published in January 2020

Courtship in the water mite Neumania papillator: males capitalize on female adaptations for predation

DNA barcodes expose unexpected diversity in Canadian mites

scientific article published on 22 November 2019

Delimiting species of water mites of the genus Hydrodroma (Acari: Hydrachnidiae: Hydrodromidae) from North America and Europe: Integrative evidence of species status from COI sequences and morphology

scientific article published in January 2020

Demodicosis in a mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) from Saskatchewan, Canada

scientific article published in October 2007

Development of forest structure on cleared rainforest land in eastern Australia under different styles of reforestation

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Different Scales of Spatial Segregation of Two Species of Feather Mites on the Wings of a Passerine Bird

scientific article published on November 8, 2010

Different space preferences and within-host competition promote niche partitioning between symbiotic feather mite species

scientific article

Different surrogacy approaches for stream macroinvertebrates in discriminating human disturbances in Central China

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Discord between field and laboratory sex ratios of the water mite Neumania papillator Marshall (Acari: Unionicolidae)

scientific article published in 1992

Distribution and First Reports of Branchiobdellida (Annelida: Clitellata) on Crayfish in the Prairie Provinces of Canada

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Distribution of Entocytheridae (Crustacea: Ostracoda) in the Northern Prairies of North America and Reports of Opportunistic Clitellate Annelids on Crayfish Hosts

scientific article published in August 2011

Diversity of feather mites (Acari: Astigmata) on Darwin's finches

scientific article

Ear mange mites (Notoedres muris) in black and Norway rats (Rattus rattus and Rattus norvegicus) from inner-city Vancouver, Canada

scientific article published on 25 October 2013

Effect of Pollination Success on Floral Longevity in the Orchid Calypso bulbosa (Orchidaceae)

scientific article published in 1995

Effect of pollen age on fruit set, fruit weight, and seed set in three orchid species

scientific article published in 1998

Effects of an ecosystem engineer on belowground movement of microarthropods

scientific article

Effects of phytoseiid predators on the sex ratio of the spider mite Panonychus ulmi

scientific article published in January 1991

Extracting aquatic mites from stream substrates: a comparison of three methods.

scientific article

Feather Mites Associated with Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia sialisL.) in Georgia, Including the Description of a New Species ofTrouessartia(Analgoidea: Trouessartiidae)

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Feather mites (Acari: Astigmata): ecology, behavior, and evolution.

scientific article

Feather mites and birds: an interaction mediated by uropygial gland size?

scientific article published on 17 November 2007

Feather mites of Brazil (Acari: Astigmata: Analgoidea and Pterolichoidea)

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Feather mites play a role in cleaning host feathers: New insights from DNA metabarcoding and microscopy

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Feeding behaviour and phylogeny: observations on early derivative Acari

Gallilichus jonesi sp. n. (Acari: Ascouracaridae): A new species of feather mite from the quills of the Australian brush-turkey (Aves: Megapodiidae)

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Geographical structuring of feather mite assemblages from the Australian brush-turkey (Aves: Megapodiidae).

scientific article published in February 2004

Global associations between birds and vane-dwelling feather mites

scientific article published on 4 October 2016

HYPERPARASITISM OF AN AVIAN ECTOPARASITIC HIPPOBOSCID FLY, ORNITHOMYA ANCHINEURIA, BY THE MITE, MYIALGES CF. BOREALIS, IN ALBERTA, CANADA.

scientific article published on 11 January 2018

High diversity and low genetic structure of feather mites associated with a phenotypically variable bird host

scientific article published on 17 January 2018

Higher-level molecular phylogeny of the water mites (Acariformes: Prostigmata: Parasitengonina: Hydrachnidiae).

scientific article published on 2 May 2016

Host Records for Ornithonyssus sylviarum (Mesostigmata: Macronyssidae) from Birds of North America (Canada, United States, and Mexico)

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Host specificity, infrequent major host switching and the diversification of highly host-specific symbionts: The case of vane-dwelling feather mites

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Indirect Sperm Transfer in Arthropods: Behavioral and Evolutionary Trends

scientific article published on 01 January 1998

Influence of stand composition on predatory mite (Mesostigmata) assemblages from the forest floor in western Canadian boreal mixedwood forests

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Influence of two exotic earthworm species with different foraging strategies on abundance and composition of boreal microarthropods

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Intertidal community structure differs significantly between substrates dominated by native eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) and adjacent to the introduced oyster Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg) in British Columbia, Canada

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Life history of Macrocheles muscaedomesticae (Parasitiformes: Macrochelidae): new insights on life history and evidence of facultative parasitism on Drosophila

scientific article published on 30 October 2019

Long-term impact of severe wildfire and post-wildfire salvage logging on macroinvertebrate assemblage structure in Alberta's Rocky Mountains

scientific article published in 2019

Mating Behavior of Physolimnesia australis (Acari, Limnesiidae), a Non-Parasitic, Rotifer-Eating Water Mite from Australia

scientific article published in 1997

Mating Biology Resolves Trichotomy for Cheliferoid Pseudoscorpions (Pseudoscorpionida, Cheliferoidea)

scientific article published in 1993

Mating behaviour and spermatophore morphology: a comparative test of the female-choice hypothesis

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Mating behaviour of the water miteArrenurus manubriator(Acari: Arrenuridae)

scientific article published in 1994

Mating duration and prolonged post-copulatory associations in Arrenurus water mites (Actinotrichida: Parasitengonina: Hydrachnidiae)

scientific article published on 25 May 2021

Megninia casuaricola sp. n. (Acari: Analgidae), the first feather mite from a cassowary (Aves: Struthioniformes: Casuariidae)

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Mesostigmatid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) on rainforest tree trunks: arboreal specialists, but substrate generalists?

scientific article published in January 2006

Mites: Ecology, Evolution & Behaviour

scientific article published in 2013

Molecular and morphological evidence for the Holarctic distribution of Urogonimus macrostomus (Rudolphi, 1803) Monticelli, 1888 (Digenea: Leucochloridiidae).

scientific article published on 23 February 2012

Molecular phylogeny of North American Branchiobdellida (Annelida: Clitellata).

scientific article published on 17 September 2012

Morphological studies on the water mite Hydryphantes ramosus Daday, 1905 (Acariformes: Hydrachnidiae: Hydryphantidae) from Brazil, with a description of the larva

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Morphology of genitalia and non-genitalic contact structures in Trouessartia feather mites (Astigmata: Analgoidea: Trouessartiidae): is there evidence of correlated evolution between the sexes?

scientific article published in December 2020

Nasal mites (Mesostigmata: Rhinonyssidae) in African penguins (Spheniscus demersus)

scientific article published on 20 June 2018

Neglected Predators: Water Mites (Acari:Parasitengona:Hydrachnellae) in Freshwater Communities

New feather mites of the family Pterolichidae (Acari: Pterolichoidea) from parrots (Aves: Psittaciformes) in Australia

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Niche Partitioning of Feather Mites within a Seabird Host, Calonectris borealis

scientific article published on 9 December 2015

Of spates and species: responses by interstitial water mites to simulated spates in a subtropical Australian river

scientific article published in January 2004

Parasite biodiversity faces extinction and redistribution in a changing climate

scientific article published on 6 September 2017

Parasite prevalence in intermediate hosts increases with waterbody age and abundance of final hosts

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Parasitism of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) by larval mites (Acari: Parasitengona) in Adelaide, South Australia

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Pecking preferences in hatchlings of the Australian brush-turkey, Alectura lathami (Megapodiidae): the role of food type and colour

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Phoretic mite associates of mountain pine beetle at the leading edge of an infestation in northwestern Alberta, Canada

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Phthiraptera and Acari Collected from 13 Species of Waterfowl from Alabama and Georgia

scholarly article by Valentina R. Garbarino et al published June 2013 in Southeastern Naturalist

Phylogeography of a migratory songbird across its Canadian breeding range: Implications for conservation units

scientific article published on 28 June 2017

Predatory Mites in Tropical Australia: Local Species Richness complementarity1

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Preliminary assessment of mating duration and prolonged post-copulatory associations in Arrenurus water mites (Actinotrichida: Parasitengonina: Hydrachnidiae)

scholarly article published in 2022

Red, distasteful water mites: did fish make them that way?

scientific article published in January 2004

Responses of ground-active beetle assemblages to different styles of reforestation on cleared rainforest land

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Roles of environmental and spatial factors in structuring assemblages of forest-floor Mesostigmata in the boreal region of Northern Alberta, Canada

scientific article published on 3 October 2018

Sensory exploitation and the evolution of male mating behaviour: a cladistic test using water mites (Acari: Parasitengona)

scientific article (publication date: October 1992)

Sexual differences in development and behaviour of larval Ischnura verticalis (Odonata: Coenagrionidae)

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Soil mites as bioindicators of disturbance in the boreal forest in northern Alberta, Canada: Testing taxonomic sufficiency at multiple taxonomic levels

scientific article published in July 2019

Species Coextinctions and the Biodiversity Crisis

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Species boundaries among extremely diverse and sexually dimorphic Arrenurus water mites (Acariformes: Hydrachnidia: Arrenuridae)

Species boundaries among extremely diverse and sexually dimorphic Arrenurus water mites (Acariformes: Hydrachnidiae: Arrenuridae)

scientific article published on 5 April 2021

Subphylum Chelicerata, Class Arachnida

scholarly article published 2015

Survey of nasal mites (Rhinonyssidae, Ereynetidae, and Turbinoptidae) associated with birds in Alberta and Manitoba, Canada

scientific article published in June 2008

Symbiotic arthropods from the house sparrow (Passer domesticus, Aves: Passeridae) from two locations in Alberta, Canada

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THE EVOLUTION OF COPULATION IN WATER MITES: A COMPARATIVE TEST FOR NONREVERSING CHARACTERS

scientific article published in May 1991

THE EVOLUTION OF COPULATION IN WATER MITES: A COMPARATIVE TEST FOR NONREVERSING CHARACTERS.

scientific article published in May 1991

Testing for trade-offs between flight and reproduction in the mountain pine beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) on two pine (Pinaceae) hosts

scientific article published on 15 March 2019

The Canopy Starts at 0.5 m: Predatory Mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) Differ between Rain Forest Floor Soil and Suspended Soil at any Height

scholarly article by Frédéric Beaulieu et al published 23 April 2010 in Biotropica

The Distribution of Quill Mites (Betasyringophiloidus seiuri) Among Flight Feathers of the Ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapilla)

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

The Function of Feathers in Tree Swallow Nests: Insulation or Ectoparasite Barrier?

scientific article published in August 2009

The Parasite Extinction Assessment & Red List: an open-source, online biodiversity database for neglected symbionts

The causes & consequences of being small: an exploration of what it means to be a mite in four acts

scientific article published on 17 November 2018

Trachyuropoda kinsellan. sp. (Acari: Uropodina: Trachyuropodidae) from Alberta, Canada, with a key toTrachyuropodaspecies from temperate North America

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Two new feather mites of the genus Neocalcealges Orwig (Analgoidea: Trouessartiidae) from the Sichuan province of China

scientific article (publication date: 13 April 2015)

Using soil and litter arthropods to assess the state of rainforest restoration

scientific article

Variability in the life history of Unionicola crassipes, a sponge-associated water mite (Acari: Unionicolidae)

scientific article published in 1990

Variation in Ectosymbiont Assemblages Associated with Rock Pigeons (Columba livia) from Coast to Coast in Canada

scientific article published on 30 December 2020

Water-bears from the Rocky Mountains: A First Look at Alberta's Tardigrade Fauna

scientific article published in October 2005

Weak relationships of parasite infection with sexual and life‐history traits in wild‐caught Texas field crickets ( Gryllus texensis )

scientific article published on 15 September 2020

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January 2018 Global Ecology and Biogeography

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