Low Temperature Biology of Insects

orig.boards Rear cover corner heavily bumped. Good. 24x15cm, xiii,390 pp., An ink mark to bottom page-edge. Contents: A primer on insect cold-tolerance / Richard E. Lee Jr. -- Rapid cold-hardening : ecological significance and underpinning mechanisms / Richard E. Lee Jr. and David L. Denlinger -- Antifreeze and ice-nucleator proteins / John G. Duman . [et al.] -- Genomics, proteomics and metabolomics : finding the other players in insect cold-tolerance / M. Robert Michaud and David L. Denlinger -- Cell structural modifications in insects at low temperatures / Vladimi?r Kos?ta?l -- Oxygen : stress and adaptation in cold-hardy insects / Kenneth B. Storey and Janet M. Storey --Interactions between cold, desiccation and environmental toxins / Martin Holmstrup . [et al.] -- The macrophysiology of insect cold-hardiness / Steven L. Chown and Brent J. Sinclair -- Evolutionary physiology of insect thermal adaptation to cold environments / Raymond B. Huey -- Insects at not so low temperature : climate change in the temperate zone and its biotic consequences / William E. Bradshaw and Christina M. Holzapfel -- Genetic variability and evolution of cold-tolerance / Johannes Overgaard, Jesper G. Sørensen and Volker Loeschcke -- Life history adaptations to polar and alpine environments / Peter Convey -- A template for insect cryopreservation / Roger A. Leopold and Joseph P. Rinehart -- Implications of cold tolerance for pest management / Jeffrey S. Bale. Rear cover corner heavily bumped. Good. …