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Ice Nucleating Agents in Cold-Hardy Insects

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Water and Life

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Water is the solvent of all biological systems. Whenever insects and other poikilothermic animals are exposed to subfreezing temperatures, there is a possibility that their body water will freeze. Organismal freezing is usually fatal. The problems of survival at subzero temperatures are thus to a great extent the problems of how to deal with the body water at subzero temperatures.

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  1. Department of Zoology, University of Trondheim, AVH, 7055, Dragvoll, Norway

    K. E. Zachariassen

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  1. Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, 97331-2914, Corvallis, OR, USA

    George Nicholls Somero

  2. Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Box 475, 2601, Canberra, Australia

    Charles Barry Osmond

  3. Laboratory of Comparative Biology, University of Milan, Via Balzaretti 9, 20133, Milan, Italy

    Carla Liana Bolis

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Zachariassen, K.E. (1992). Ice Nucleating Agents in Cold-Hardy Insects. In: Somero, G.N., Osmond, C.B., Bolis, C.L. (eds) Water and Life. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76682-4_16

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