Collections and calls for papers

Members of the Acari disperse and migrate via a great variety of ways. Phoresy on insects and other animals is perhaps one the most common methods of dispersal, and not just used by mites, ticks also jump on...

Mites might be ubiquitous at crime scenes, either associated to corpses, cadavers, simply attached to items and clothes as transferred evidence (e.g. on suspects), attached to buried/stolen money, living on ...

Form, shape, morphological variations in organisms or parts of their bodies are somehow explained in their functional role or adaptation to the environment. This is observed both in individuals and in specie...

A huge body of literature exists on the detection of vertebrate pathogens and parasites in ticks. However, in many cases the pathogens and parasites cannot pass onto a new host. This Collection aims to devel...