The Acari Reproduction, development and life-history strategies
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 Professo
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The Acari Reproduction, development and life-history strategies REINHART SCHUSTER Professor and Director of the Zoological Institute, University of Graz, Austria and
PAUL W. MURPHY Former Senior Lecturer, Invertebrate Zoology, School of AgricuIture, University of Nottingham, UK
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
First edition 1991
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1. Mites. I. Murphy, P. W. (Paul W.) 11. European Association of Acarologists. 111. Title. 1991 QL458.S38 595.4'2-dc20 91-8933 CIP
Contents
Contributors Preface Glossary PART ONE
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Life-history Strategies
1 The life strategies of mites
1 3
PH. LEBRUN, G. VAN IMPE, D. DE SAINT GEORGESGRIDELET, G. WAUTHY and H.M. ANDRE
2 Life-history evolution of spider mites
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M.W. SABELIS
3 Life-cycle strategies in unpredictably varying environments: genetic adaptations in a colonizing mite
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W. KNULLE
4 The evolutionary transformation of osmotic regulation in the life cycle of freshwater mites (Hydrachnidia)
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R. OLOMSKI
5 Development and life-history strategies in mussel mites (Hydrachnellae: Unionicolidae)
65
R.A. BAKER
PART TWO
Reproduction
6 Spermatology in the Acari: systematic and functional implications
75 77
G. ALBERTI
7 The distribution, mechanisms and evolutionary significance of parthenogenesis in oribatid mites R.A. NORTON and S.c. PALMER
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Contents
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8 Indirect sperm transfer in pro stigmatic mites from a phylogenetic viewpoint
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H. WITTE
9 Spermat
