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IN several, preparations of boiled flax seeds for fungus-culture it was observed that numbers of mites (Tyroglyphus histiostoma) made their appearance. A petri dish containing mites was boiled, and in about three weeks there were again large numbers of them present, though the cover had never been removed since boiling.
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ADAMS, J. A Mite whose Eggs survive the Boiling Point. Nature 68, 437 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068437a0
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