ReviewFrontiers in physiology2018
Insects With Survival Kits for Desiccation Tolerance Under Extreme Water Deficits.
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- Beneath the canopy, beneath the ground: how surface microhabitats shape cave communities.PeerJ · 2026Article
- Surviving desiccation: key factors underlying tolerance in prokaryotes and eukaryotes.Protoplasma · 2025Review
- A phase transition modulates the protective function of a tardigrade disordered protein during desiccation.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2025Article
- The microRNA pathway regulates obligatory aestivation in the cabbage stem flea beetle Psylliodes chrysocephala.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Desiccated desert locust embryos reserve yolk as a "lunch box" for posthatching survival.PNAS nexus · 2025Article
- Cuticular hydrocarbons promote desiccation resistance by preventing transpiration in Drosophila melanogaster.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024Article
- Evidence for Admixture and Rapid Evolution During Glacial Climate Change in an Alpine Specialist.Molecular biology and evolution · 2024Article
- Impact of singular versus combinatorial environmental stress on RONS generation inFrontiers in physiology · 2024Article
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- Eggs of the mosquito Aedes aegypti survive desiccation by rewiring their polyamine and lipid metabolism.PLoS biology · 2023Article
- The role of body size and cuticular hydrocarbons in the desiccation resistance of invasive Argentine ants (Linepithema humile).The Journal of experimental biology · 2023Article
- Editorial: Insects and changing environments: Emerging perspectives on abiotic stress tolerance mechanisms.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
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- Rehydration of the sleeping chironomid, Polypedilum vanderplanki Hinton, 1951 larvae from cryptobiotic state up to full physiological hydration (Diptera: Chironomidae).Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Species-specific dehydration tolerance and its measurement comparison in drosophilids of Western Himalayas.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- Ecophysiological Responses of the Lesser MealwormFrontiers in physiology · 2022Article
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- Effects of Thermal Acclimation on the Tolerance ofFrontiers in physiology · 2021Article
- City limits: Heat tolerance is influenced by body size and hydration state in an urban ant community.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
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Abstract
The year 2002 marked the tercentenary of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek's discovery of desiccation tolerance in animals. This remarkable phenomenon to sustain 'life' in the absence of water can be revived upon return of hydrating conditions. Today, coping with climate change-related factors, especially temperature-humidity imbalance, is a global challenge. Under such adverse circumstances, desiccation tolerance remains a prime mechanism of several plants and a few animals to escape the hostile consequences of fluctuating hydroperiodicity patterns in their habitats. Among small animals, insects have demonstrated impressive resilience to dehydration and thrive under physiological water deficits without compromising on revival and survival upon rehydration. The focus of this review is to compile research insights on insect desiccation tolerance, gathered over the past several decades from numerous laboratories worldwide working on different insect groups. We provide a comparative overview of species-specific behavioral changes, adjustments in physiological biochemistry and cellular and molecular mechanisms as few of the noteworthy desiccation-responsive survival kits in insects. Finally, we highlight the role of insects as potential mechanistic models in tracking global warming which will form the basis for translational research to mitigate periods of climatic uncertainty predicted for the future.
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