Carbon dioxide mite removal and enumeration (Parasitidae)

Subcategory: parasite quantification

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Description

Phoretic mites were removed from beetle hosts using focused carbon dioxide gas delivered through a pipette tip, which temporarily incapacitated both mites and beetles for counting and size classification.

Typical Equipment

carbon dioxide
pipette tip

Output Measurements

mite abundance per host
mite size class distribution

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Phoretic mite discrimination among male burying beetle (<i>Nicrophorus investigator</i>) hosts

2008Annals of the Entomological Society of Americausing