1. Aquatic Mites: From Genes to Communities — An Introduction

   • Heather Proctor

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 2

2. The biology and life history of arctic populations of the littoral mite Ameronothrus lineatus (Acari, Oribatida)

   • Guldborg Søvik

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 20

3. Latitudinal variation in habitat specificity of ameronothrid mites (Oribatida)

   • David J. Marshall
   • Peter Convey

   OriginalPaper Pages: 21 - 35

4. Geographical and ecological distribution of marine halacarid genera and species (Acari: Halacaridae)

   • Ilse Bartsch

   OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 58

5. Traditional water mite fixatives and their compatibility with later DNA studies

   • Isabel rey
   • Beatriz A. Dorda
   • Antonio G. Valdecasas

   OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 65

6. Random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis of kinship within host-associated populations of the symbiotic water mite Unionicola foili (Acari: Unionicolidae)

   • Dale D. Edwards
   • Daniel E. Deatherage
   • Brian R. Ernsting

   OriginalPaper Pages: 67 - 77

7. Recapture of male and female dragonflies in relation to parasitism by mites, time of season, wing length and wing cell symmetry

   • Mark R. Forbes
   • Katherine E. Muma
   • Bruce P. Smith

   OriginalPaper Pages: 79 - 93

8. Specificity of attachment sites of larval water mites (Hydrachnidia, Acari) on their insect hosts (Chironomidae, Diptera) – evidence from some stream-living species

   • Peter Martin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 95 - 112

9. Communication via sex pheromones within and among Arrenurus spp. mites (Acari: Hydrachnida; Arrenuridae)

   • Bruce P. Smith
   • Joy Florentino

   OriginalPaper Pages: 113 - 125

10. Red, distasteful water mites: did fish make them that way?

    • Heather C. Proctor
    • Neera Garga

    OriginalPaper Pages: 127 - 147

11. Of spates and species: responses by interstitial water mites to simulated spates in a subtropical Australian river

    • Andrew Boulton
    • Mark Harvey
    • Heather Proctor

    OriginalPaper Pages: 149 - 169

12. Environmental parameters determining water mite assemblages in Costa Rica

    • Tom Goldschmidt

    OriginalPaper Pages: 171 - 197

13. Diversity, distribution and ecology of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia and Halacaridae) in high Alpine lakes (Central Alps, Italy)

    • A. Di Sabatino
    • A. Boggero
    • B. Cicolani

    OriginalPaper Pages: 199 - 210