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Aquatic Mites : From Genes to Communities
Edited by Heather Proctor
Springer
2004
Hardcover VIII + 210 pp ISBN 1402027036
£64.00
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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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