To study population polymorphism in animals (Population mechanisms of adaptation to the environment)

Abstract

As known, animals have many ways to adapt to the environment, one of which is based on intrapopulation heterogeneity, or polymorphism. It ensures an adequate transformation of the demographic structure of the population during any changes in the environment. In the paper, against the background of the general characteristics of animal populations, the population polymorphism of one of the representatives of the Acaroidea mites is described. Our findings are based on observations made at the end of the last century on the Mugan Plain, near the city of Salyan (Azerbaijan) and in Shirak, on the Eldar Valley, while studying the holes of the Microtus.