The 70 kDa heat shock protein assists during the repair of chilling injury in the insect, Pyrrhocoris apterus.

BACKGROUND: The Pyrrhocoris apterus (Insecta: Heteroptera) adults attain high levels of cold tolerance during their overwintering diapause. Non-diapause reproducing adults, however, lack the capacity to express a whole array of cold-tolerance adaptations and show relatively low survival when exposed...

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Main Authors: Vladimír Kostál, Michaela Tollarová-Borovanská
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2639642?pdf=render