Biological ice nucleation and ice distribution in cold-hardy ectothermic animals

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 60, Issue , 1998, Pages 55-72

  Lee, Richard E ^a   Costanzo, Jon P ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cold hardiness; Cryobiology; Freeze tolerance; Inoculative freezing; Supercooling

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTHROPOD; BODY FLUID; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; FREEZING; FROG; HIBERNATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURVIVAL; TURTLE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMPHIBIA; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; FREEZING; ICE; REPTILES;

EID: 17344372176     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physiol.60.1.55     Document Type: Review

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