Determining factors for cryoprotectant a
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Johannes Overgaard; Stine Slotsbo; Martin Holmstrup; Mark Bayley
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Article
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2007
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Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
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English
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## Abstract The freeze‐tolerant earthworm __Dendrobaena octaedra__ is found in most of the European forest and tundra, Siberia, North America and Greenland where it over‐winters in the top soil and encounters winter frost. In response to freezing this earthworm rapidly synthesises glucose which act