Differences in cold and drought tolerance of high arctic and sub-arctic populations of Megaphorura arctica Tullberg 1876 (Onychiuridae: Collembola)

Cryobiology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 315-323

  Bahrndorff, S ^a,b   Petersen, S O ^a   Loeschcke, V ^a   Overgaard, J ^a   Holmstrup, M ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Natural History Museum   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Cryoprotective dehydration; Glucose; Phospholipid fatty acids; Trehalose

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; TREHALOSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; COLLEMBULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESICCATION; DRY WEIGHT; HUMIDITY; INVERTEBRATE; LIPID COMPOSITION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEGAPHORURA ARCTICA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; ARTHROPODS; BODY WATER; BODY WEIGHT; COLD; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; DEHYDRATION; FATTY ACIDS; GLUCOSE; HUMIDITY; ICELAND; NATURAL DISASTERS; TREHALOSE;

COLLEMBOLA; ONYCHIURIDAE;

EID: 36248983288     PISSN: 00112240     EISSN: 10902392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2007.09.001     Document Type: Article

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