In this article, we explain what mechanisms influence the effective colonisation of plants by parastic mites.
The paper is part of Alicja’s PhD thesis. Congratulations!
The study was supported by the National Science Centre, Poland, research grant no. 2017/27/N/NZ8/00305 and the Dean Faculty of Biology grant no. GDWB-07/2018.
Laska, A., Przychodzka, A., Puchalska, E., Lewandowski, M., Karpicka-Ignatowska, K. & Skoracka A. Mechanisms of dispersal and colonisation in a wind-borne cereal pest, the haplodiploid wheat curl mite. Sci Rep 12, 551 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-04525-9
