Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 103-110 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Experimental and Applied Acarology |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 1-2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 1991 |
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