Lukas VF Novak on Nostr: Do #Lizards Really Have ‘Mite Pockets’? ...
Do #Lizards Really Have ‘Mite Pockets’? https://tetzoo.com/blog/2024/3/1/do-lizards-really-have-mite-pockets by npub134m0ll49uge8neag0wkqqvmd929rthe9tj98ulp6wzqwh55vtwfstqlka0 (npub134m…lka0)
"Over 200 modern #lizard species possess slits, apertures and folds in the skin... these are often inhabited by #parasitic mites... Because the pockets seemingly don’t have a function other than their use by #mites, it was proposed back in the 1980s that lizards and mites have co-evolved such that the pockets are specialized mite aggregation sites."
"Over 200 modern #lizard species possess slits, apertures and folds in the skin... these are often inhabited by #parasitic mites... Because the pockets seemingly don’t have a function other than their use by #mites, it was proposed back in the 1980s that lizards and mites have co-evolved such that the pockets are specialized mite aggregation sites."