ReviewJournal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology2008
How insects survive the cold: molecular mechanisms-a review.
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- Surviving Alpine Winters Without Dehydration: Physiological and Transcriptomic Insights into the Freeze Avoidance ofInsects · 2026Article
- Transcriptomic responses of red palm weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) larvae to low-temperature exposure.Journal of insect science (Online) · 2026Article
- Phenotypic changes in natural populations of Anopheles gambiae s.l. at the onset of the long dry season in tropical savannahs of Burkina Faso, West Africa.Parasite (Paris, France) · 2026Article
- Trehalose accumulation contributes to enhanced cold stress tolerance in Telenomus remus, a dominant egg parasitoid of Spodoptera frugiperda.BMC genomics · 2025Article
- Long-Term and Seasonal Trends in the Mode of Accumulation of Elements in the Bodies of Aquatic Insect Larvae.Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology · 2025Article
- Seasonal plasticity of thermal tolerance indicates resilience to future climate in Australian damselflies.Oecologia · 2025Article
- Metabolism dynamics in tropical cockroach during a cold-induced recovery period.Biological research · 2025Article
- Whole-Genome Sequences of 13 Chinese Indigenous Pinewood Nematodes,International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- In the heat of the moment: Including realistic thermal fluctuations results in dramatically altered key population parameters.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Comparative Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Different Responses in Three Developmental Stages ofInsects · 2024Article
- Impacts of winter warming events on spruce budworm: the importance of timing.Journal of insect science (Online) · 2024Article
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- Discovery of an underground chamber to protect kings and queens during winter in temperate termites.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- The supercooling point depression is the leading cold tolerance strategy for the variegated ladybug, [Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- Identification and characterization of cold-responsive aquaporins from the larvae of a crambid pestPeerJ · 2023Article
- Cross-protection interactions in insect pests: Implications for pest management in a changing climate.Pest management science · 2023Review
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- Cold tolerance strategies of the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae).Scientific reports · 2022Article
- An insect antifreeze protein from Anatolica polita enhances the cryoprotection of Xenopus laevis eggs and embryos.The Journal of experimental biology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Insects vary considerably in their ability to survive low temperatures. The tractability of these organisms to experimentation has lead to considerable physiology-based work investigating both the variability between species and the actual mechanisms themselves. This has highlighted a range of strategies including freeze tolerance, freeze avoidance, protective dehydration and rapid cold hardening, which are often associated with the production of specific chemicals such as antifreezes and polyol cryoprotectants. But we are still far from identifying the critical elements behind over-wintering success and how some species can regularly survive temperatures below -20 degrees C. Molecular biology is the most recent tool to be added to the insect physiologist's armoury. With the public availability of the genome sequence of model insects such as Drosophila and the production of custom-made molecular resources, such as EST libraries and microarrays, we are now in a position to start dissecting the molecular mechanisms behind some of these well-characterised physiological responses. This review aims to provide a state-of-the-art snapshot of the molecular work currently being conducted into insect cold tolerance and the very interesting preliminary results from such studies, which provide great promise for the future.
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