Validity of thermal ramping assays used to assess thermal tolerance in arthropods

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Overgaard, Johannes ^a   Kristensen, Torsten Nygaard ^a   Sørensen, Jesper Givskov ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOGEN; LIPID; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DRY MASS; FEMALE; GLYCOGEN ANALYSIS; HEAT STRESS; HEAT TOLERANCE; LIPID ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; STARVATION; THERMAL EXPOSURE; THERMAL RAMPING ASSAY; WATER CONTENT; ACCLIMATIZATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BIOASSAY; ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DEHYDRATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; GLYCOGEN; STARVATION; TEMPERATURE; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 84857928080     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032758     Document Type: Article

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