Cellular mechanism of bicarbonate regulation and excretion in an insect inhabiting extremes of alkalinity
The saltwater mosquito larva, Aedes dorsal is, is one of the only organisms capable of inhabiting hypersaline lakes composed almost entirely of high concentrations of NaHC03 and Na2C03 salts. Under laboratory conditions larvae survived and developed normally in saline media with pH values up to...
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University of British Columbia
2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/24602 |