TY - JOUR
T1 - Bulb mite, Rhizoglyphus robini (Astigmata: Acaridae) as an experimental animal
AU - Gerson, Uri
AU - Cohen, Ephraim
AU - Capua, Shlomo
PY - 1991/9
Y1 - 1991/9
N2 - Rhizoglyphus robini Claparède (Acari: Astigmata: Acaridae) is proposed as a model laboratory animal for biological, ecological, physiological and toxicological studies. The mite is easy and inexpensive to rear, quite fecund, convenient to manipulate, and may rapidly be raised to gram quantities. Examples are presented of its use in soil pest ecology and control studies, and in physiological, biochemical and toxicological investigations. Efforts to explore the induction of detoxification systems by various chemicals, and a demonstration of its control by solarization, are also described.
AB - Rhizoglyphus robini Claparède (Acari: Astigmata: Acaridae) is proposed as a model laboratory animal for biological, ecological, physiological and toxicological studies. The mite is easy and inexpensive to rear, quite fecund, convenient to manipulate, and may rapidly be raised to gram quantities. Examples are presented of its use in soil pest ecology and control studies, and in physiological, biochemical and toxicological investigations. Efforts to explore the induction of detoxification systems by various chemicals, and a demonstration of its control by solarization, are also described.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0025919496&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/BF01204403
DO - 10.1007/BF01204403
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AN - SCOPUS:0025919496
SN - 0168-8162
VL - 12
SP - 103
EP - 110
JO - Experimental and Applied Acarology
JF - Experimental and Applied Acarology
IS - 1-2
ER -