{"title":"Trehalose: a Molecule Responsible for Desiccation Tolerance in the Sleeping Chironomid, Polypedilum Vanderplanki","authors":"T. Okuda","doi":"10.11311/JSCTA1974.33.20","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Life and death are mutually exclusive states. But some organisms showing no sign of living due to complete desiccation are nevertheless able to resume active life after rehydration. This peculiar biological state of organisms is referred to as cryptobiosis. Larvae of an insect species, the African chironomid Polypedilum vanderplanki, live in temporary rock pools in semi-arid areas and are able to achieve cryptobiosis. P. vanderplanki larvae accumulate trehalose to levels of","PeriodicalId":19096,"journal":{"name":"Netsu Sokutei","volume":"12 3 1","pages":"20-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2006-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Netsu Sokutei","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.11311/JSCTA1974.33.20","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Life and death are mutually exclusive states. But some organisms showing no sign of living due to complete desiccation are nevertheless able to resume active life after rehydration. This peculiar biological state of organisms is referred to as cryptobiosis. Larvae of an insect species, the African chironomid Polypedilum vanderplanki, live in temporary rock pools in semi-arid areas and are able to achieve cryptobiosis. P. vanderplanki larvae accumulate trehalose to levels of