Freeze tolerance and cryoprotectant synthesis of the Pacific Tree Frog Hyla regilla

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 3, 2000, Pages 863-868

  Croes, Scott A ^a   Thomas, Robert E ^b  

^a Center for Science   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034604441     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1643/0045-8511(2000)000[0863:FTACSO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. COSTANZO, J. P., AND R. E. LEE. 1993. Cryoprotectant production capacity of the freeze tolerant wood frog, Rana sylvatica. Can. J. Zool. 71:71-75.
2. _, _, AND M. F. WRIGHT. 1992. Freeze toerance as an overwintering adaptation in Cope's grey treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis). Copeia 1992:565-569.
3. HEDGES, S. B. 1986. An electrophoretic analysis of holarctic hylid frog evolution. Syst. Zool. 35:1-21.
4. KEPPLER, D., AND K. DECKER. 1974. Glycogen: determination with amyloglucosidase, p. 1127-1131. In: Methods of enzymatic analysis. H. U. Bergmeyer (ed.). Academic Press, New York.
5. LAYNE, J. R., AND R. E. LEE. 1987. Freeze tolerance and the dynamics of ice formation in wood frogs (Rana sylvatica) from southern Ohio. Can. J. Zool. 65:2062-2065.
6. _, AND _. 1989. Seasonal variation in freeze tolerance and ice content of the treefrog Hyla versicolor. J. Exp. Zool. 249:133-137.
7. NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY. 1979. Field guide to North American reptiles and amphibians. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York.
8. SCHMID, W. D. 1982. Survival of frogs in low temperature. Science 215:697-698.
9. STOREY, J. M., AND K. B. STOREY. 1985. Adaptations of metabolism for freeze tolerance in gray tree frog, Hyla versicolor. Can. J. Zool. 63:49-54.
10. STOREY, K. B. 1987a. Organ-specific metabolism during freezing and thawing in a freeze tolerant frog. Am. J. Physiol. 53:R292-R297.
11. _. 1987b. Glycolysis and the regulation of cryoprotectant synthesis in liver of the freeze tolerant wood frog. J. Comp. Physiol. B Biol. Sci. 157:373-380.
12. _, AND J. M. STOREY. 1984. Biochemical adaptation for freezing tolerance in the wood frog, Rana sylvatica. Ibid. 155:29-36.
13. _, AND _. 1986. Freeze tolerance and intolerance as strategies of winter survival in terrestrially-hibernating amphibians. Ibid. 83A:613-617.
14. _, AND _. 1987. Persistence of freeze tolerance in terrestrially hibernating frogs after spring emergence. Copeia 1987:720-726.
15. _, AND _. 1988. Freeze tolerance in animals. Physiol. Rev. 68:27-84.
16. _, AND _. 1992. Natural freeze tolerance in exothermic vertebrates. Annu. Rev. Physiol. 54: 619-637.
17. SWANSON, D. L., B. M. GRAVES, AND K. L. KOSTER. 1996. Freezing tolerance/intolerance and cryoprotectant synthesis in terrestrially overwintering anurans in the Great Plains, USA. J. Comp. Physiol. 166:110-119.
18. ZACHARIASSEN, K. E. 1985. Physiology of cold tolerance in insects. Physiol. Rev. 65:799-832.