Temperature stress. Reacting and adapting: Lessons from poikilotherms

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1113, Issue , 2007, Pages 52-57

  Harwood, John L ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acanthamoeba castellanii; Bifunctional enzyme; Eukaryotic temperature adaptation; Fatty acid 12 desaturase

Indexed keywords

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; CATALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FATTY ACID DESATURATION; GENE EXPRESSION; LOW TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTOZOON; SOIL; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; YEAST;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; EUKARYOTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 35548951381     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1391.025     Document Type: Conference Paper

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