First published online July 20, 2007
Journal of Experimental Biology 210, 2585-2592 (2007)
Published by The Company of Biologists 2007
doi: 10.1242/jeb.002618
Plasticity in arthropod cryotypes
T. C. Hawes and
J. S. Bale*
School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston,
Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK

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Fig. 1. Generalized relationship between the degree of evolutionary derivation of
cold-hardening strategy and the degree of plasticity (phenotypic variation) in
freeze-tolerance and freeze-avoiding cryotypes.
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Fig. 2. Comparison of morphological changes in O. arcticus associated with
dehydration: (A) hydrated; (B) desiccated at sub-zero temperatures.
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