The thermal limits to life on Earth

A review of Fennoscandian arthropods living on and in snow

(2014) Sigmund HAGVAR   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY

Emperor penguin body surfaces cool below air temperature

(2013) D. J. McCafferty et al.   Biology Letters

Survival and colonization of nematodes in a composting process

(2013) Hanne Steel et al.   INVERTEBRATE BIOLOGY

Thermal Limit for Metazoan Life in Question: In Vivo Heat Tolerance of the Pompeii Worm

(2013) Juliette Ravaux et al.   PLoS One

A Low Temperature Limit for Life on Earth

(2013) Andrew Clarke et al.   PLoS One

Survival of Rock-Colonizing Organisms After 1.5 Years in Outer Space

(2012) Silvano Onofri et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

World Meteorological Organization Assessment of the Purported World Record 58°C Temperature Extreme at El Azizia, Libya (13 September 1922)

(2012) Khalid I. El Fadli et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Upper thermal limits in terrestrial ectotherms: how constrained are they?

(2012) Ary A. Hoffmann et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Exploring the limit of metazoan thermal tolerance via comparative proteomics: thermally induced changes in protein abundance by two hydrothermal vent polychaetes

(2012) G. F. Dilly et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

LEA Proteins During Water Stress: Not Just for Plants Anymore

(2011) Steven C. Hand et al.   Annual Review of Physiology

Agni’s fungi: heat-resistant spores from the Western Ghats, southern India

(2011) T.S. Suryanarayanan et al.   Fungal Biology

Survival Potential and Photosynthetic Activity of Lichens Under Mars-Like Conditions: A Laboratory Study

(2010) Jean-Pierre de Vera et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

An Aristotelian Account of Minimal Chemical Life

(2010) Mark A. Bedau   ASTROBIOLOGY

Defining Life

(2010) Steven A. Benner   ASTROBIOLOGY

Scaling of basal metabolic rate with body mass and temperature in mammals

(2010) Andrew Clarke et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Thermodynamic aspects of vitrification

(2009) Brian Wowk   CRYOBIOLOGY

Fervidicola ferrireducens gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic anaerobic bacterium from geothermal waters of the Great Artesian Basin, Australia

(2009) C. D. Ogg et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Record low surface air temperature at Vostok station, Antarctica

(2009) John Turner et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Universal behavior of the osmotically compressed cell and its analogy to the colloidal glass transition

(2009) E. H. Zhou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Intracellular ice formation in yeast cells vs. cooling rate: Predictions from modeling vs. experimental observations by differential scanning calorimetry

(2008) Shinsuke Seki et al.   CRYOBIOLOGY

Life at the Limits: Capacities of Isolated and Cultured Lichen Symbionts to Resist Extreme Environmental Stresses

(2008) J.-P. de Vera et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Dicer-dependent pathways regulate chondrocyte proliferation and differentiation

(2008) T. Kobayashi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA