The Acari
Reproduction, Development and Life History Strategies
Published in May 1991
Book
Hardback
454 pages
978-0-412-36070-1 (ISBN)
Description
In recent years there have been outstanding advances in our understanding of the ecology of a range of acarine taxa, and in particular plant mites. The aim of this book is to provide a review of the current understanding of the mode of reproduction, development, life history strategies, and resource allocation and utilization of the Acari from dynamic and phylogenetic viewpoints and to encourage workers in specialisations other than plant mites to channel their thinking along similar lines. As such, the coverage of the book is broad and includes discussions of house-dust mites, various animal-parasitic species, and the Acari of plants, soil and stored products. There is also a section on the systematics of the Oribatida. Topics covered include gnathosomal and reproductive anatomy, asexual and sexual reproduction, sex allocation, sperm transfer, embryonic development, duration of development, arrest mechanisms (including diapause), host - Acari interactions, and behaviour, all treated largely in the context of various modes of life including plant, aquatic, animal parasitic, predatory and other free living categories.
This book should be of interest to graduate, research and professional acarologists, crop protection specialists, ecologists, animal parasitologists, medical parasitologists and stored-product specialists, as well as to undergraduate students.
This book should be of interest to graduate, research and professional acarologists, crop protection specialists, ecologists, animal parasitologists, medical parasitologists and stored-product specialists, as well as to undergraduate students.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
glossary
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 37 mm
Weight
1033 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-412-36070-1 (9780412360701)
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Content
Part 1 Life-history strategies: the life strategies of mites; life-history evolution of spider mites; life-cycle strategies in unpredictably varying environments - genetic adaptations in a colonizing mite; the evolutionary transformation of osmotic regulation in the life cycle of freshwater mites (Hydrachnidia); development and life-history strategies in mussel mites (Hydrachnellae - Unionicolidae). Part 2 Reproduction: spermatology in the Acari - systematic and functional implications; the distribution, mechanisms and evolutionary significance of parthenogenesis in oribatid mites; indirect sperm transfer in prostigmatic from a phylogenetic viewpoint; spermatophore deposition in relation to atmospheric humidity among terrestrial Parasitengonae (Prostigmata); the role of Alderocystis sp. in the reproduction of argasid ticks; a scanning electron-microscopy study of spermatogenesis in Pergamasus barbarus Berl. (Gamasida); precise sex-ratio control in the pseudo-arrhenotokous pytoseiid mite, Typhlodromus occidentalis Nesbitt; sex ratio, fitness and capacity for population increase in Pyemotes tritici (pyemotidae); preliminary observations of ovoviviparity in the gall-forming mite, Aceria caulobius; laboratory observations of copulation and egg production of three phytoseiid species fed on pollen; precopulatory mate guarding in the spider mite, Tetranychus cinnabarinus. Part 3 Diapause, development and trophic relations: physiological aspects of diapause in plant-inhabiting mites; repeated induction and termination of diapause in the predacious mite, Amblyseius potentillae; inheritance of the photoperiodic responses controlling diapause in the two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae; some observations on diapause in the winter eggs of Panonychus ulmi; reporduction, embryonic and postembryonic development of Trichouropoda obscurasimilis Hirschmann & Zirngiebl-Nicol 1961; resource allocation and utilization contrasts in Hypoaspis aculeifer and Alliphis halleri with emphasis on food source; the influence of different host plants on the reproductive potential of Tyrophagus putrescentiae and Tyrophagus neiswanderi Johnston & Bruce; the relationship between house-dust mites and fungi; How plants maintain body-guards - plant exudate as a food source for phytoseiid mites. Part 4 Systematics, morphology, physiology and behaviour: distribution of characters and phylogenetic age - systematic problems in the higher taxa of the Oribatida; a new approach to the systematics of the genus Stegnacarus; the morphology of the immature stages of Phthiracaroidea; a new interpretation of the epimeral theory of Grandjean; a comparison of the aclerotized parts of the reproductive organs of house-dust mites of the genus Dermatophagoides using scanning electron microscopy. (Part contents).