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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Phoresy"”.
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Ecology of Mite Phoresy on Mountain Pine Beetles
Phoresy, a commensal interaction where smaller organisms utilize dispersive hosts for transmission to new habitats, is expected to produce positive effects for symbionts and no effects for hosts, yet negative and positive effects have been documented. This poses the question of whether phoresy is …
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Pseudoscorpion Systematics & Phylogenetics: Exploring the Effects of Accelerated Rates of Evolution on Both Ancient and Recent Diversification
… to shed light on the evolution of silk, venom, phoresy (hitchhiking), and the chelicerate body plan. The advent of molecular sequencing technologies has illuminated additional fascinating biological attributes about these animals, including abnormal mitochondrial tRNA and rRNA genes, accelerated …