Surviving the cold: molecular analyses of insect cryoprotective dehydration in the Arctic springtail <it>Megaphorura arctica </it>(Tullberg)
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Insects provide tractable models for enhancing our understanding of the physiological and cellular processes that enable survival at extreme low temperatures. They possess three main strategies to survive the cold: freeze tolerance,...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2009-07-01
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| Series: | BMC Genomics |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/10/328 |