Cold-acclimation of the wood cockroach <i>Crytocercus punctulatus</i> (Scudder) (Dictyoptera: Cryptocercidae)
The general overwintering strategy employed by the woodroach, <i>Cryptocerclls punctulatus</i> (Scudder) appears to be fairly typical among freeze-tolerant insects. In this species, as well as others, heat-labile hemolymph ice nucleating factors induce extracellular ice formation at a hi...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/45464 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-11072008-063358/ |