Expression of the 70 kDa Heat shock protein family in Alpine freshwater chironomids (Diptera, Chironomidae) under natural conditions

Journal of Limnology

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 251-256

  Lencioni, Valeria ^a   Boschini, Deborah ^a   Rebecchi, Lorena ^b  

^a MUSEO TRIDENTINO DI SCIENZE NATURALI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cold stenothermal species; Diamesinae; Glacial streams; Italian Alps; Orthocladiinae; Stress proteins

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FAUNA; FLY; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL WARMING; LARVA; PROTEIN; STREAM; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; CHIRONOMIDAE; DIAMESA; DIAMESA CINERELLA; DIAMESA INSIGNIPES; DIAMESA LATITARSIS; DIAMESA ZERNYI; DIAMESINAE; DIPTERA; ORTHOCLADIINAE; ORTHOCLADIUS FRIGIDUS; ORTHOCLADIUS THIENEMANNI; PARATRICHOCLADIUS; PSEUDODIAMESA BRANICKII;

EID: 69949089079     PISSN: 11295767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/jlimnol.2009.251     Document Type: Article

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