Interactions between cold, desiccation and environmental toxins

Low Temperature Biology of Insects

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 166-188

  Holmstrup, Martin ^a   Bayley, Mark ^a   Pedersen, Sindre A ^b   Zachariassen, Karl Erik ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511675997.008     Document Type: Chapter

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