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| Title |
Surviving the cold: molecular analyses of insect cryoprotective dehydration in the Arctic springtail Megaphorura arctica (Tullberg)
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| Published in |
BMC Genomics, July 2009
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2164-10-328 |
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| Authors |
Melody S Clark, Michael AS Thorne, Jelena Purać, Gavin Burns, Guy Hillyard, Željko D Popović, Gordana Grubor-Lajšić, M Roger Worland |
| Abstract |
Insects provide tractable models for enhancing our understanding of the physiological and cellular processes that enable survival at extreme low temperatures. They possess three main strategies to survive the cold: freeze tolerance, freeze avoidance or cryoprotective dehydration, of which the latter method is exploited by our model species, the Arctic springtail Megaphorura arctica, formerly Onychiurus arcticus (Tullberg 1876). The physiological mechanisms underlying cryoprotective dehydration have been well characterised in M. arctica and to date this process has been described in only a few other species: the Antarctic nematode Panagrolaimus davidi, an enchytraied worm, the larvae of the Antarctic midge Belgica antarctica and the cocoons of the earthworm Dendrobaena octaedra. There are no in-depth molecular studies on the underlying cold survival mechanisms in any species. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 85 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Serbia | 2 | 2% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| Denmark | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 78 | 92% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 20 | 24% |
| Researcher | 17 | 20% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 15 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 7 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 6% |
| Other | 13 | 15% |
| Unknown | 8 | 9% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 47 | 55% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 13 | 15% |
| Environmental Science | 4 | 5% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 4% |
| Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 4 | 5% |
| Unknown | 13 | 15% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 January 2014.
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#3,799,086
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#1,379
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#14,518
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#13
of 61 outputs
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