Genetic Diversity in a Mite, Coleolaelaps longisetatus (Mesostigmata: Laelapidae), Associated with Polyphylla Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in Japan.

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Symbioses between mites and beetles are ubiquitous, but the relationships among mites and leaf-feeding, free-living beetle species have not been well studied. To clarify the relationships between a phoretic mite, Coleolaelaps longisetatus, and leaf-feeding, free-living Polyphylla beetle species in Japan, we determined phoretic rates of mites and clarified the patterns of genetic diversification of the mite in...

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