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Diseases of Mites and Ticks

By Jan Bruin (auth.) , Jan Bruin , Leo P. S. van der Geest (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
2009
ISBN
1402096941, 9781402096945, 9781402096952
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4020-9695-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6599074 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
347\344
Topic
Medicine Diseases
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Entomology

Description

The current collection of twenty-four papers is a mixture of primary research articles and literature reviews, presenting a broad overview of the developments in about all possible aspects of acarine diseases, stretching from basic pathology to microbial pest control. The pathogens include fungi, bacteria, and protozoa (as well as an occasional virus and unidentified organism), the hosts are mites and ticks from a great variety of taxa (e.g., Eriophyidae, Ixodidae, Oribatida, Phytoseiidae, Psoroptida, Tarsonemidae, Tetranychidae, Varroidae). These taxa include many infamous mites and ticks, which cause tremendous economical losses throughout the world, for example in greenhouse and field-grown agricultural crops, life stock (cattle, sheep), apiculture, and man. The taxa also include commercially available biocontrol agents, whose mass rearings need to be protected against pathogens.

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