Deep supercooling, vitrification and limited survival to -100°C in the Alaskan beetle Cucujus clavipes puniceus (Coleoptera: Cucujidae) larvae

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 213, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 502-509

  Sformo, T ^a   Walters, K ^b   Jeannet, K ^a   Wowk, B ^c   Fahy, G M ^c   Barnes, B M ^a   Duman, J G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c 21st Century Medicine Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

AFP; Antifreeze protein; Differential scanning calorimetry; DSC; SCP; Supercooling point; TH; Thermal hysteresis

Indexed keywords

SNOW; WATER;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ECOSYSTEM; FREEZING; LARVA; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALASKA; ANIMALS; BEETLES; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; ECOSYSTEM; FREEZING; LARVA; SEASONS; SNOW; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WATER;

COLEOPTERA; CUCUJIDAE; CUCUJUS; CUCUJUS CLAVIPES; HEXAPODA;

EID: 75649132166     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.035758     Document Type: Article

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