Cold exposure and freezing may affect ion distribution in several ways and reduce
physiologically important ionic gradients. Both freeze-avoiding and freeze-tolerant …

Adults of the bug Pyrrhocoris apterus and the beetle Alphitobius diaperinus developed chill-
injury slower and survived longer when they were exposed to fluctuating thermal regimes …

Freeze tolerance–the ability to survive internal ice formation–has evolved repeatedly in
insects, facilitating survival in environments with low temperatures and/or high risk of …

Many insects, including Drosophila, succumb to the physiological effects of chilling at
temperatures well above those causing freezing. Low temperature causes a loss of …

During extracellular freezing, solutes in the haemolymph are concentrated, resulting in
osmotic dehydration of the cells, which must be reversed upon thawing. Here, we used …

Insects as a group have been especially successful in adapting to subzero temperatures.
Typically, an integration of behavioral and developmental adaptations, as well as …

A review of each species discussed or of those reported by other investigators would not at
this time provide greater insights into those questions fundamental to understanding low …

Chilling injury and death are the ultimate consequence of low temperature exposure for chill
susceptible insects, and low temperature tolerance is considered one of the most important …

Most insects have the ability to alter their cold tolerance in response to temporal temperature
fluctuations, and recent studies have shown that insect cold tolerance is closely tied to the …

The ecophysiology of cold tolerance in many terrestrial invertebrate animals is based on
water and its activity at low temperatures, affecting cell, tissue and whole organism functions …