Cryoprotective and osmotic responses to cold acclimation and freezing in freeze-tolerant and freeze-intolerant earthworms

Journal of Comparative Physiology - B Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 207-214

  Holmstrup, M ^a   Costanzo, J P ^b   Lee Jr , R E ^b  

^a National Environmental Research Institute   (Denmark)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryoprotectants; Earthworms; Eisenia nordenskioeldi; Freeze tolerance; Glucose

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032953137     PISSN: 01741578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003600050213     Document Type: Article

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