Cold tolerance of first-instar nymphs of the Australian plague locust, Chortoicetes terminifera

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 376-379

  Woodman, James D ^a,b,c  

^a Australian Government Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cold hardiness; Low temperature; Rapid cold hardening; Supercooling point; Total body water content

Indexed keywords

WATER;

GRASSHOPPER; LOW TEMPERATURE; MORTALITY; SUPERCOOLING; SURVIVAL; WATER CONTENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHEMISTRY; COLD; GRASSHOPPER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; NYMPH; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; COLD TEMPERATURE; GRASSHOPPERS; NYMPH; WATER;

CHORTOICETES TERMINIFERA;

EID: 77549085580     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2009.11.012     Document Type: Article

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