Cold hardiness in relation to trace metal stress in the freeze-avoiding beetle Tenebrio molitor

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 846-853

  Pedersen, Sindre A ^a   Kristiansen, Erlend ^a   Hansen, Bjørn H ^a   Andersen, Rolf A ^a   Zachariassen, Karl E ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Antifreeze protein; Cold hardiness; Gene expression; Metal stress; Tenebrio molitor

Indexed keywords

ANTIFREEZE PROTEIN; HEAVY METAL; INSECT PROTEIN;

BEETLE; COLD TOLERANCE; FREEZING; GENE EXPRESSION; LARVA; PROTEIN; TRACE METAL;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; COLD; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEMOLYMPH; LARVA; METABOLISM; OSMOLARITY; SEASON; TENEBRIO;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; ANTIFREEZE PROTEINS; BODY WEIGHT; COLD; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEMOLYMPH; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; METALS, HEAVY; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; SEASONS; TENEBRIO;

ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; TENEBRIO; TENEBRIO MOLITOR;

EID: 33746307851     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2006.05.004     Document Type: Article

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