EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY OF ASTIGMATID MITES
- B. OConnor
- Biology, Environmental Science
- 1982
The cohort Astigmata with 69 families and 785 genera represents by far the largest adaptive radiation of mites into symbi otic associations, and other acarine lineages include relatively diverse radiations in association with both arthropods and vertebrates, but none approach the diversity of the AstigmATA.
Biology, ecology, and management of the bulb mites of the genus Rhizoglyphus (Acari: Acaridae)
- A. Díaz, K. Okabe, C. Eckenrode, M. Villani, B. OConnor
- BiologyExperimental & applied acarology
- 1 February 2000
Management of bulbmites is complicated by their short generation time, high reproductive potential, broad food niche, interactions with other pests and pathogens, and unique adaptations for dispersal.
Ecological and Evolutionary Significance of Phoresy in the Astigmata
- M. Houck, B. OConnor
- Biology
- 1991
Definition du concept de phoresie. Evaluation des consequences ecologiques et evolutionnaires de ce concept par l'etude des interactions entre les acariens phoretiques et leurs hotes
Improved tRNA prediction in the American house dust mite reveals widespread occurrence of extremely short minimal tRNAs in acariform mites
- P. Klimov, B. OConnor
- BiologyBMC Genomics
- 11 December 2009
This study confirmed the presence of cloverleaf tRNAs in Dermatophagoides by limited EST data, but further experimental evidence is needed to demonstrate extremely small and unusual t RNAs in acariform mites.
Comprehensive phylogeny of acariform mites (Acariformes) provides insights on the origin of the four-legged mites (Eriophyoidea), a long branch.
- P. Klimov, B. OConnor, R. Ochoa
- BiologyMolecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
- 1 February 2018
Origin and higher-level relationships of psoroptidian mites (Acari: Astigmata: Psoroptidia): evidence from three nuclear genes.
- P. Klimov, B. OConnor
- BiologyMolecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
- 1 June 2008
MITES ASSOCIATED WITH THE SMALL GROUND FINCH, GEOSPIZA FULIGINOSA (PASSERIFORMES: EMBERIZIDAE), FROM THE GALÁPAGOS ISLANDS
- B. OConnor, J. Foufopoulos, D. Lipton, K. Lindström
- BiologyJournal of Parasitology
- 1 December 2005
In collections of ectoparasites from 368 small ground finches, Geospiza fuliginosa, in populations from the islands of Isabela, Santa Cruz, San Cristóbal, and Santa Fé, in the Galápagos Archipelago,…
Astigmatid mites (Acari: Sarcoptiformes) of forensic interest
- B. OConnor
- BiologyExperimental & applied acarology
- 16 July 2009
This paper reviews the occurrence of mites of the infraorder Astigmata in situations involving the legal system, particularly in the area of medicocriminal entomology. Species in the families…
Acarinaria in associations of apid bees (Hymenoptera) and chaetodactylid mites (Acari)
- P. Klimov, S. Vinson, B. OConnor
- Biology
- 12 June 2007
It is proposed that acarinaria serve to concentrate unwanted mites, reducing the chance that they will disperse to other members of the brood as the infested host leaves the nest, thereby reducing their effect on other bees in the brood.
Is permanent parasitism reversible?--critical evidence from early evolution of house dust mites.
- P. Klimov, B. OConnor
- BiologySystematic Biology
- 1 May 2013
There is conclusive evidence that house dust mites, a group of medically important free-living organisms, evolved from permanent parasites of warm-blooded vertebrates, and it is proposed that parasitic ancestors of pyroglyphids shifted to nests of vertebrates.
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