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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