Freeze or dehydrate: Only two options for the survival of subzero temperatures in the arctic enchytraeid Fridericia ratzeli

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

Volumn 173, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 601-609

  Pedersen, P G ^a,b   Holmstrup, M ^a  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cryoprotective dehydration; Enchytraeidae; Freeze tolerance; Glucose; Oligochaeta

Indexed keywords

CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT; GLUCOSE; WATER;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANNELID WORM; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BODY FLUID; BODY WATER; CHEMISTRY; COLD; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEHYDRATION; DESICCATION; FREEZING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMIDITY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION; SOIL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; TIME; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; BODY FLUIDS; BODY WATER; COLD; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; CRYSTALLIZATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEHYDRATION; DESICCATION; FREEZING; GLUCOSE; HUMIDITY; OLIGOCHAETA; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 0141838169     PISSN: 01741578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00360-003-0370-8     Document Type: Article

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