How does the European common lizard, Lacerta vivipara, survive the cold of winter?

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 71-80

  Grenot, Claude J ^a   Garcin, Laurence ^a   Dao, Jérôme ^a   Hérold, Jean Pierre ^b   Fahys, Bernard ^b   Tséré Pagès, Huguette ^a  

^a UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Blood glucose level; Cold tolerance; Differential scanning calorimetry; Hibernaculum; Hibernation; Lacerta vivipara; Supercooling; Water balance

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY TEMPERATURE; COLD TOLERANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPROTECTION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EUROPE; FREEZING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HIBERNATION; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; WINTER;

EID: 0033834122     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(00)00236-1     Document Type: Article

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