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Rapid cold hardening protects against sublethal freezing injury in an Antarctic insect

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Onset of seasonal metabolic depression in the Antarctic midge Belgica antarctica appears to be independent of environmental cues

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Transcriptional analysis of insect extreme freeze tolerance

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Mechanisms underlying insect freeze tolerance

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Repeated freezing induces a trade-off between cryoprotection and egg production in the goldenrod gall fly,Eurosta solidaginis

(2018) Katie E. Marshall et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

How crickets become freeze tolerant: The transcriptomic underpinnings of acclimation in Gryllus veletis

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Climate change drives expansion of Antarctic ice-free habitat

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Life in the Frequency Domain: the Biological Impacts of Changes in Climate Variability at Multiple Time Scales

(2016) Michael E. Dillon et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Stress tolerance in a polyextremophile: the southernmost insect

(2015) R.E. Lee et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

An invitation to measure insect cold tolerance: Methods, approaches, and workflow

(2015) Brent J. Sinclair et al.   JOURNAL OF THERMAL BIOLOGY

Wet hibernacula promote inoculative freezing and limit the potential for cryoprotective dehydration in the Antarctic midge, Belgica antarctica

(2014) Yuta Kawarasaki et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Compact genome of the Antarctic midge is likely an adaptation to an extreme environment

(2014) Joanna L. Kelley et al.   Nature Communications

Recent geographic convergence in diurnal and annual temperature cycling flattens global thermal profiles

(2014) George Wang et al.   Nature Climate Change

Alternative overwintering strategies in an Antarctic midge: freezing vs. cryoprotective dehydration

(2013) Yuta Kawarasaki et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Surviving in a frozen desert: environmental stress physiology of terrestrial Antarctic arthropods

(2013) N. M. Teets et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The protective effect of rapid cold-hardening develops more quickly in frozen versus supercooled larvae of the Antarctic midge, Belgica antarctica

(2013) Y. Kawarasaki et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Evolutionary geographic relationships among orthocladine chironomid midges from maritime Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands

(2012) GIULIANA ALLEGRUCCI et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Expression of genes involved in energy mobilization and osmoprotectant synthesis during thermal and dehydration stress in the Antarctic midge, Belgica antarctica

(2012) Nicholas M. Teets et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY

Pre-adapted to the maritime Antarctic? – Rapid cold hardening of the midge, Eretmoptera murphyi

(2012) M.J. Everatt et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Gene expression changes governing extreme dehydration tolerance in an Antarctic insect

(2012) N. M. Teets et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Survival and energetic costs of repeated cold exposure in the Antarctic midge, Belgica antarctica: a comparison between frozen and supercooled larvae

(2011) N. M. Teets et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Energetic consequences of repeated and prolonged dehydration in the Antarctic midge, Belgica antarctica

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Eretmoptera murphyi: pre-adapted to survive a colder climate

(2010) MICHAEL ROGER WORLAND   PHYSIOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Cryoprotective dehydration and the resistance to inoculative freezing in the Antarctic midge, Belgica antarctica

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