CD-ROM (in pocket) contains the full text and illustrations of every paper in the vol.
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Congress held in Canberra, Australia, July 5-10, 1998.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Acarine biological control agents. Biological control of tetranychid mites in South African apple orchards / K.L. Pringle ; History and perspectives of biological mite control in Australian horticulture using exotic and native phytoseiids / David G. James ; An overview of investigations into the use of predatory mites to control the lucerne flea Sminthurus viridis (L.) (Collembola: Sminthuridae) in Tasmanian pastures / J.E. Ireson, R.J. Holloway and W.S. Chatterton ; The use and usefulness of mites in biological control of weeds / D.T. Briese and J.M. Cullen ; Advances in understanding the ecology of Euseius (Mesostigmata: Phytoseiidae) species on citrus in southern Africa / Tim G. Grout ; Effect of temperature on the rate of development, fecundity, longevity, sex ratio and mortality of Amblyseius coccosocius Ghai and Menon (Acari: Phytoseiidae), an important biocontrol agent against tea red spider mite in India / K. Saha, A.K. Somchoudhury, P.K. Sarkar and S.K. Gupta ; Trends in research on acarine biocontrol agents / Uri Gerson ; Phytoseiids with potential for commercial exploitation in Australia / Marilyn Y. Steiner and Stephen Goodwin ; A conspectus of natural enemies of phytophagous mites and mites as potential biocontrol agents of agricultural pests in India / S.K. Gupta ; Functional responses of Amblyseius ovalis (Evans) (Acari: Phytoseiidae) on Tetranychus urticae Koch (Prostigmata: Tetranychidae) : effects of prey stages / Chain-ing T. Shih and Chain-Ji Wang ; Functional responses of Amblyseius ovalis (Evans) (Acari: Phytoseiidae) on Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae) : effects of substrate component and size of rearing arena / Chain-ji Wang and Chain-ing T. Shih ; Biological control of two-spotted spider mite in strawberries by the predatory mite Amblyseius longispinosus (Evans) (Acari: Phytoseiidae) / M. Kongchuensin, V. Charanasri, T. Kulpiyawat and P. Khantonthong ; Can Phytoseiulus persimilis (Acari: Phytoseiidae) invade rainforest fragments when its preferred prey Tetranychus urticae is present? / Saskia Kriesch, Golam Nabi Azam and David Evans Walter ; Phytoseiid faunas of natural and agricultural ecosystems in Sicily / S. Ragusa-di Chiara and H. Tsolakis ; The phytoseiid mites of major crops in China / Wei-nan Wu and Wen-ming Lan -- Medical and veterinary acarology. The medical significance of Acari in Australia / Richard C. Russell ; Ticks as vectors of zoonotic pathogens in Europe / J.S. Gray and O. Khal ; A progress report on scabies in humans / John R.H. Andrews ; Allergenicity of the predator dust mite Cheyletus tenuipilis (Acari: Cheyletidae) : a preliminary study / M.J.A. Morris and J. Rimmer ; Survey of the mite fauna associated with Apis spp. in Kerala, southern India / K. Sumangala and M.A. Haq ; Potential oribatid mite vectors of cestode parasites in Kerala, India / M.A. Haq ; Population dynamics of acarid mites in two different types of poultry raising systems in Germany / Rainer Ehrnsberger and Jacek Dabert ; Ectoparasitic mites on Heteromys gaumeri in the south of Yucatan, Mexico / M.M.T. Quintero, M. Vargas, B.S. Hernández, P. García and N.J. Otero ; Mites associated with nests of Neotoma albigula Hartley, 1894 (Rodentia: Muridae) in Durango, México / Griselda Montiel-Parra, Gabriel A. Villegas-Guzman, Margarita Vargas, and Oscar J. Polaco -- Ecology and physiology of ticks. Water balance of unfed Argas reflexus (Acari: Argasidae) maintained in an experimental attic / Hans Dautel ; Juvenile hormone regulation of metamorphosis and reproduction in ticks : a critical re-examination of the evidence and a new perspective / R. Michael Roe, Vasant Kallapur, Paul A. Neese, Charles S. Apperson and Daniel E. Sonenshine ; Bioassay, radiobiosynthesis, and GC/MS analysis of juvenile hormone in ticks : a new perspective / Paul A. Neese, Vasant L. Kallapur, Charles S. Apperson, Daniel E. Sonenshine and R. Michael Roe ; Characterisation of immunoglobulin G binding proteins in male Rhipicephalus appendiculatus ticks / H. Wang and P.A. Nuttall ; Vitellogenin and its synthesis in the soft ticks / DeMar Taylor and Yasuo Chinzei ; Regulated secretion of tick salivary gland protein / Alan S. Bowman, Ying Qian, Jing Yuan and John R. Sauer ; Clustering effects of lone star ticks (Amblyomma americanum) in nature : implications for precision-targeting of acaricides / Jerome Goddard ; Tick immunity to microbial infections : control of representative bacteria in the hard tick Dermacentor variabilis (Acari: Ixodidae) / Robert Johns, Shane Ceraul, Daniel E. Sonenshine and Wayne L. Hynes ; Variations in numbers of Rhipicephalus appendiculatus (Acari: Ixodidae) tick populations feeding on cattle infected with Theileria parva parva (Apicomplexa: Theileridae) parasites / Sammy S. Kubasu, Josephat I. Shililu and Mwase E.T. Enala.
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Introduction: Past, present and future acarology. 250 years of Australian acarology / R.B. Halliday ; Poising for a new century : diversification in acarology / Evert E. Lindquist ; Taxonomy of New Zealand Prostigmata : past, present, and future / Ting-Kui Qin and Rosa C. Henderson -- Acarine systematics and phylogeny. The body segmentation of oribatid mites from a phylogenetic perspective / Gerd Weigmann ; Phylogenetic relationships of Hypozetes (Acari: Tegoribatidae) / Valerie M. Behan-Pelletier ; Systematic relationships of Nothrolohmanniidae, and the evolutionary plasticity of body form in Enarthronota (Acari: Oribatida) / Roy A. Norton ; Historical ecology of the Acaridae (Acari) : phylogenetic evidence for host and habitat shifts / Barry M. OConnor ; Organismal patterns causing high potential for adaptive radiation in Parasitengonae (Acari: Prostigmata) / Andreas Wohltmann, Harald Witte and Ronald Olomski ; Assessment of the usefulness of ribosomal 18S and mitochondrial COI sequences in Prostigmata phylogeny / Jürgen C. Otto and Kate J. Wilson -- Acarine biogeography and biodiversity. Achilles and the mite : Zeno's paradox and rainforest mite diversity / David Evans Walter ; Closely related species of Parasitengonae (Acari: Prostigmata) inhabiting the same areas : features facilitating coexistence / Andreas Wohltmann ; Aquatic mites as bioindicators, with an Australian example / J.E. Growns ; Study of the diversity of Ptyctima (Acari: Oribatida) and quest for centres of its origin : the fauna of the Oriental and Australian regions / Wojciech Niedbała ; Genetic markers and mite population biology / Maria Navajas -- Evolutionary ecology of acarine reproduction. Coercion and deceit : water mites (Acari: Hydracarina) and the study of intersexual conflict / Heather Proctor and Karen Wilkinson ; Thelytokous reproduction in the family Acaridae (Astigmata) / Kimiko Okabe and Barry M. OConnor ; Morphological adaptations associated with mate-guarding behaviour in the genus Hericia (Acari: Algophagidae) / Norman Fashing ; Reproductive behaviour of the semi-aquatic mite Homocaligus cf. amphibius Wainstein, 1975 (Acari: Homocaligidae) / A.V. Tolstikov -- Acarine morphology and ultrastructure. New morphological analysis of the bat wing mites of the genus Periglischrus (Acari: Spinturnicidae) / Juan B. Morales-Malacara ; Functional morphology and fine structure of the female genital system in Typhlodromus spp. (Acari: Phytoseiidae) / G. Nuzzaci, A. Di Palma and P. Aldini ; Anatomy and ultrastructure of the female reproductive system of Sarcoptes scabiei (Acari: Sarcoptidae) / Clifford E. Desch ; The use of autofluorescence of the pharyngeal pump system in Pygmephoridae (Acari: Heterostigmata) as a new taxonomic aid / S.H. Coetzee and A.M. Camerik ; Functional morphology of some leg sense organs in Pediculaster mesembrinae (Acari: Siteroptidae) and Phytoptus avellanae (Acari: Phytoptidae) / Enrico de Lillo and Pasquale Aldini ; Ultrasonication, a tool for microdissection of astigmatic mites investigated by SEM / M.G. Walzl ; Fine structure and mineralisation of cuticle in Enarthronota and Lohmannioidea (Acari: Oribatida) / Gerd Alberti, Roy A. Norton and Jörn Kasbohm ; The leg chaetotaxy of Caligonellidae (Prostigmata: Raphignathoidea) / Sabina Fajardo Swift ; An alarm pheromone function of the secretion from the nymphal stage of the oribatid mite Nothrus palustris (C.L. Koch) (Acari: Nothridae) / Satoshi Shimano, Tomoyo Sakata, Yoshikatsu Mizutani, Yasumasa Kuwahara and Jun-ichi Aoki -- Ecology and biology of soil mites. Reproductive and nutritional biology of Tectocepheus velatus (Acari: Tectocepheidae) in different biotopes / Martina Hajmová and Jaroslav Smrz ; Feeding habits of the Indian oribatid mites Hoplophthiracarus rimosus (Phthiracaridae) and Lohmannia n. sp. (Lohmanniidae) and their role in decomposition / N. Ramani and M.A. Haq ; Effects of moisture regime on the nutritional biology of saprophagous soil mites (Oribatida and Acaridida) / Jaroslav Smrz ; Talus formations -- remarkable biotopes for acarological research, with examples from the Rhagidiidae (Acari: Prostigmata) / Miloslav Zacharda ; Myriad Mesostigmata associated with log-inhabiting arthropods / Owen Seeman ; Soil Acari response to deforestation and fire in a central Amazon forest / Lucille M.K Antony ; Niche segregation and can-openers : scydmaenid beetles as predators of armoured mites in Australia / Freerk Molleman and David Evans Walter -- Interactions between mites and plants. The false spider mite Brevipalpus obovatus Donnadieu (Acari: Tenuipalpidae) : host-related biology, seasonal abundance, and control / Hussien A. Rezk ; Comparison of feeding damage by redlegged earth mite Halotydeus destructor (Tucker) (Acari: Penthaleidae) to different grain legume species as an indicator of potentially resistant lines / A. Liu and T.J. Ridsdill-Smith ; Densities of Panonychus ulmi (Acari: Tetranychidae) and Aculus schlechtendali (Acari: Eriophyidae) on three apple cultivars in western Norway / Mofakhar S. Hossain and Torstein Solhøy ; Physiological and biochemical responses of plants to spider mite feeding / Anna Tomczyk ; Host plant resistance in cotton to spider mites / L.J. Wilson and V.O. Sadras ; Resistance in pasture legumes to redlegged earth mite Halotydeus destructor (Tucker) (Acari: Penthaleidae) / S.F. Wang, T.J. Ridsdill-Smith and E.L. Ghisalberti ; Host plant susceptibility to eriophyid mites used for weed biological control / J.M. Cullen and D.T. Briese ; Effect of nutrients and salinity on the incidence of Petrobia latens (Müller) (Prostigmata: Tetranychidae) / Ashok Sharma and Mahendra Sharma ; The life history and population development of Rhyncaphytoptus negundivagrans Farkas (Acari: Diptilomiopidae) / S.K. Ozman ; Movement of the two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae Koch and the kanzawa spider mite T. kanzawai Kishida (Acari: Tetranychidae) in a watermelon-pea cropping system / Masahiko Morishita ; Life cycle and behaviour of the coconut mite Neocypholaelaps stridulans (Evans) (Acari: Ameroseiidae) in India / M.A. Haq -- Biology and control of mites in horticulture. Brevipalpus mites (Acari: Tenuipalpidae) as vectors of plant viruses / C.M. Chagas, V. Rossetti, A. Colaricicco, O. Lovisolo, E.W. Kitajima and C.C. Childers ; Relative abundance and seasonal occurrence of mites in the family Tydeidae on citrus in Florida / H. Aguilar, C.C. Childers and W.C. Welbourn ; Managing spider mites in field-grown strawberries using Phytoseiulus persimilis and the 'pest-in-first' technique / G.K. Waite ; Control of two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae) on edible crops in glasshouses using two interacting species of predatory mite / A.S. Rott and D.J. Ponsonby ; Platyphytoptus pineae Castagnoli, an eriophyid mite described from Pinus pinae L. in Italy, present in central Brazil / D. Návia and C.H.W. Flechtmann ; A quantitative study of phoresy in Microdispus lambi (Acari: Microdispidae) in eastern Australia / Alan Clift and Mary Ann Terras ; Development and use of a method to measure aldicarb resistance in Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae) from cotton in Australia / Grant A. Herron, Victor E. Edge, Jeanette Rophail and Lewis Wilson ; Seasonal abundance of the Banks grass mite Oligonychus pratensis (Banks) (Prostigmata: Tetranychidae) and a predatory mite, and their response to sulfur treatment on commercial date palms Phoenyx dactilifera L. in southern California / Carmen Gispert, Charles Farrar and Thomas M. Perring ; Life cycle, food consumption, and seasonal occurrence of Scolothrips indicus (Thysanoptera: Aeolothripidae) on eggplant / Chyi-Chen Ho and Wen-Hwa Chen ; Does the Lorryia formosa Cooreman (Acari: Prostigmata: Tydeidae) population visit or reside on citrus foliage? / M.H. Badii, A.E. Flores, G. Ponce, J. Landeros and H. Quiroz ; Species and population densities of mites on be / V. Charanasri and M. Kongchuensin ; Predator prey interactions between Chrysoperla carnea Stephens (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) and Tetranychus neocaledonicus (André) (Acari: Tetranychidae) on okra / H. Sharanabasava and M. Manjunatha --
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This volume is the outcome of the 10th International Conference on Entomology, providing an overview of the research on ticks, mites, and other parasites - the most diverse group of living organisms in the world.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Acarology, Congresses.
Acarology.
Milbenkunde
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Canberra 1998
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L400
L700
L821
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
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595
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42
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21
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
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QL458
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I57
1998
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74
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PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Halliday, R. B., (Robert Bruce),1950-
CORPORATE BODY NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
International Congress of Acarology(10th :1998 :, Canberra, Australia)