Female Soil Mite (IMAGE)

Umea University

Female Soil Mite

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Researchers found significant genetically transmitted changes in laboratory populations of soil mites in just 15 generations leading to a doubling of the age at which the mites reached adulthood and large changes in population size.

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© Dr. Tom Cameron

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