Effect of Cold Acclimation on the Antioxidant Defense System of Two Larval Lepidoptera (Noctuidae)

Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-10

  Grubor Lajsic, G ^c   Block, W ^a   Telesmanic, M ^c   Jovanovic, A ^c   Stevanovic, D ^c   Baca, F ^b  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b Maize Research Institute   (Yugoslavia)

^c British Antarctic Survey ^*

Author keywords

Antioxidant enzymes; Cold exposure; Glutathione; Insect; Ostrinia nubilalis; Sesamia cretica

Indexed keywords

FELIS CATUS; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; NOCTUIDAE; OSTRINIA; OSTRINIA NUBILALIS; SESAMIA; SESAMIA CRETICA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0343773220     PISSN: 07394462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6327(1997)36:1<1::aid-arch1>3.0.co;2-%23     Document Type: Article

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