ArticleJournal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology2018
The springtail Megaphorura arctica survives extremely high osmolality of body fluids during drought.
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Abstract
The springtail Megaphorura arctica Tullberg 1876 is widespread in the arctic and subarctic regions where it can be abundant along beaches. This species survives winters using cryoprotective dehydration as a cold tolerance strategy during which it becomes drastically dehydrated. Several studies have investigated the physiological responses associated with water loss of M. arctica under exposure to freezing temperatures, but little is known of the dynamics of body water and hemolymph osmolality when subjected to gradually increasing drought stress at temperatures above the freezing point. Therefore, an experiment was conducted in which M. arctica was subjected to relative humidities (RH) decreasing from fully saturated conditions to ca. 89%RH over a period of 30 days. During the experiment water content of springtails decreased from about 3 to ca. 0.5 mg mg
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