Natural freeze-tolerance in hatchling painted turtles?

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 233-246

  Packard, Gary C ^a   Packard, Mary J ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Circulation; Cold tolerance; Freezing; Hibernation; Integument; Metabolism; Supercooling; Turtle

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ICE; LACTIC ACID; WATER;

ACID BASE BALANCE; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; BODY TEMPERATURE; CATALYST; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLD EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FREEZING TOLERANCE; HEART FUNCTION; HIBERNATION; INOCULATION; INTEGUMENT; LABORATORY; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; LOW TEMPERATURE; NESTING; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; REVIEW; SIMULATION; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SUMMER; SURVIVAL; TISSUE OXYGENATION; TURTLE; WEATHER; WINTER;

ANIMALIA; CHRYSEMYS; CHRYSEMYS PICTA; EMYDIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 0037304459     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(02)00264-7     Document Type: Review

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