Slow dehydration promotes desiccation and freeze tolerance in the Antarctic midge, Belgica antarctica

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• freeze tolerance 100%
• desiccation 60%
• dehydration 54%
• Antarctica 46%
• relative humidity 40%
• larva 31%
• rehydration 18%
• water 12%
• tolerance 11%
• humidity 11%
• cold tolerance 10%
• loss 10%
• heat shock 9%
• wilting 9%
• supercooling 8%
• body fluid 8%
• water well 7%
• arthropod 7%
• phospholipid 7%
• insect 6%
• metabolite 6%
• freezing 6%
• invertebrate 5%
• moisture 5%
• protein 4%
• cold 4%
• membrane 4%
• animal 4%
• ice 4%
• rate 4%
• fluid 3%
• removal 3%
• soil 2%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Desiccation 78%
• Antarctic Regions 78%
• Humidity 62%
• Dehydration 57%
• Larva 31%
• Water 23%
• Fluid Therapy 14%
• Osmolar Concentration 12%
• Cold Temperature 10%
• Water Wells 10%
• Arthropods 7%
• Ice 7%
• Invertebrates 6%
• Extracellular Fluid 6%
• Body Fluids 6%
• Soil 6%
• Insecta 6%
• Heat-Shock Proteins 6%
• Freezing 6%
• Phospholipids 5%
• Membranes 3%
• Animals 2%
• Therapeutics 0%

Agriculture & Biology

• midges 66%
• Antarctica 59%
• cold tolerance 54%
• relative humidity 46%
• larvae 22%
• water 22%
• rehydration 17%
• osmolality 16%
• humidity 13%
• wilting point 11%
• supercooling point 10%
• extracellular fluids 9%
• body fluids 8%
• direct contact 8%
• heat shock proteins 7%
• ice 7%
• arthropods 7%
• freezing 6%
• invertebrates 6%
• survival rate 6%
• phospholipids 6%
• metabolites 5%
• insects 4%
• synthesis 4%
• soil 3%
• animals 3%