Heavy metal pollution in aquatic environments threatens marine life and lowers the quality of
freshwater supplies. This research aimed to quantify the heavy metal concentration in fish …

A fundamental aspect of symbiotic relationships is host specificity, ranging from extreme
specialists associated with only a single host species to generalists associated with many …

Parasites and other symbionts are crucial components of ecosystems, regulating host
populations and supporting food webs. However, most symbiont systems, especially those …

Most humans carry mites in the hair follicles of their skin for their entire lives. Follicular mites
are the only metazoans that continuously live on humans. We propose that Demodex …

Water mites (Hydrachnidia) are good model organisms for the assessment and long-term
monitoring of the biological impacts of natural and human-induced environmental changes …

Parasite diversification is influenced by many of the same factors that affect speciation of free-
living organisms, such as biogeographic barriers. However, the ecology and evolution of the …

A new species of phytoseiid mites, Neoseiulus neoagrestis sp. nov., was described based
on all ontogenetic stages and extensive comparison with types/vouchers of closely related …

The ecological integrity of several freshwater ecosystems has been disrupted by the rapid
and unrestrained accumulation of toxic heavy metals (HMs) from various sources. Changes …

The effective population size (N e) of an organism is expected to be generally proportional to
the total number of individuals in a population. In parasites, we might expect the effective …

The high relevance of host‐switching for the diversification of highly host‐specific symbionts
(ie, those commonly inhabiting a single host species) demands a better understanding of …