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Cold shock is the stress inflicted by a brief and rapid exposure to low, but nonfreezing, temperatures. When the shock is sufficiently severe, the organism sustains injury that may ultimately result in death. This form of stress has received little attention in insects, but it has been well recognized in bacteria, blue-green algae, yeasts, protozoans, higher plants, mammalian spermatozoa and embryos, and in cultures of plant and animal cells (review by Morris et al., 1983; Watson and Morris, 1987). Cold shock, also referred to as “direct chilling injury,” is dependent on the rate of cooling: greater injury is caused by more rapid cooling. The temperature threshold causing injury will vary between species and strains, but consistently this form of injury is observed in the absence of ice formation and at temperatures well above the supercooling point. The actual cause of injury elicited by cold shock remains elusive, but some form of membrane damage is likely. The normal integrity of the cell membrane may be altered by phase transitions of lipids within the membrane (Quinn, 1985) or by thermoelastic stress (McGrath, 1987).
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Denlinger, D.L., Joplin, K.H., Chen, CP., Lee, R.E. (1991). Cold Shock and Heat Shock. In: Lee, R.E., Denlinger, D.L. (eds) Insects at Low Temperature. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0190-6_6
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