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What scientists know as "mites" is almost certainly an artificial taxonomic group, according to recent phylogenetic analyses. For more than a century, the view of mites as a single lineage centered on them having a highly modified mouthpart region, but advanced microscopic techniques now reveal that many species of mites lack a key fusion of mouthparts that was the foundation for their classification. [Read more]
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