Across the Metazoa, the emergence of new ecological interactions has been enabled by the
repeated evolution of exocrine glands. Specialized glands have arisen recurrently and with …

Oribatid mites, also called beetle or moss mites, include more than 10,000 named species
representing 172 families worldwide. This book provides an identification key to the 96 …

Abstract Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) represent one of the most abundant and speciose
groups of microarthropods in the decomposer food webs of soils, but little is known of their …

Poison frogs are chemically defended from predators by diverse alkaloids, almost all of
which are sequestered unchanged from alkaloid-containing arthropods in the frog diet …

Cheese infested with cheese mites is usually treated as unpalatable. Nevertheless, some
traditional cheese manufactories in Germany and France intentionally use mites for …

The opisthonotal (oil) glands of oribatid mites are the source of a wide diversity of taxon-
specific defensive chemicals, and are likely the location for the more than 90 alkaloids …

Oribatid mites are diverse and abundant terrestrial soil arthropods that are involved in
decomposition of organic matter and nutrient cycling. As indicated by fossils starting from the …

Dermatophagoides farinae is inhabited by an intracellular bacterium, Cardinium. Using
correlations between host and symbiont gene expression profiles, we identified several …

The distinctive oribatid mite family Eulohmanniidae has been known almost exclusively from
the type species of Eulohmannia, E. ribagai (Berlese, 1910), which is widely distributed in …

The oil gland secretion of the oribatid mite Nothrus palustris is known to show the
phenomenon of juvenile–adult polymorphism, ie, juvenile instars produce secretions …