Cold hardiness in the Alpine beetles Patrobus septentrionis and Calathus melanocephalus |
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Authors: | Hilde Bakken |
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Institution: | Division of Zoology, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1050, Blindern, 0316 Oslo 3, Norway |
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Abstract: | Alpine Patrobus septentrionis and Calathus melanocephalus (Col., Carabidae) were found to be susceptible to freezing. In the summer, the supercooling points were about ?5 to ?6°C. They were lowered during acclimation in the field and in the laboratory at 0 or ?3°C. Cold hardiness was correlated to, but not determined by, haemolymph osmolality. Thermal hysteresis was not detected. Increase in cold hardiness was concluded to be mainly a result of the influence of acclimation conditions on ice-nucleating compounds. In P. septentrionis, the results indicate that different compounds with ice-nucleation activity at different temperatures determine the limit of supercooling at different times. The haemolymph of both species supercooled well below the intact beetles at all seasons. Changes in haemolymph supercooling points could be ascribed to inactivation of ice nucleators in early autumn and to the effect of changes in solute concentration. In P. septentrionis, myo-inositol increased during cold-acclimation to 80–120 mMol concentrations, whereas C. melanocephalus produced 40–60 mMol trehalose. |
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Keywords: | Alpine carabids cold hardiness supercooling nucleation myo-inositol trehalose haemolymph osmolality |
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