...Mads Kuhlmann Andersen; R. Meldrum Robertson; Heath A. MacMillan ABSTRACT Most insects can acclimate to changes in their thermal environment and counteract temperature effects on neuromuscular function. At the critical thermal minimum, a spreading depolarization (SD) event silences central neurons...

... of adaptation shows that increasing cold tolerance was key to successful colonization of the temperate zone. Biogeographic dispersal Critical thermal minimum Hylidae Jumping performance Ornstein–Uhlenbeck model Thermal performance curve Oklahoma State University http://dx.doi.org/10.13039...

...-tolerant Drosophila species may enter coma as a result of processes unrelated to muscle depolarization as their V m was not significantly depolarized at their chill coma temperatures. Chill tolerance Critical thermal minimum Cold exposure Comparative Inter-species Many insects succumb...

... interests. 24 10 2014 1 12 2014 © 2015. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2015 Critical thermal minimum Osmotic homeostasis Sodium pump Water balance Low temperature tolerance is especially important for determining geographic range limits of insects ( Battisti...

... the manuscript. Competing interests The authors declare no competing financial interests. 21 10 2013 23 12 2013 © 2014. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2014 Cold tolerance Critical thermal minimum Grashoppers Isometric force Membrane potential Neuromuscular...

...Heath A. MacMillan; Caroline M. Williams; James F. Staples; Brent J. Sinclair SUMMARY When exposed to temperatures below their critical thermal minimum (CT min ), insects enter chill-coma and accumulate chilling injuries. While the critical thermal limits of water-breathing marine animals may...

... with the critical thermal minimum ( CT min ) and is hypothesised to be a metabolic manifestation of the latter, possibly a failure of the Na + /K + -ATPase pump. This provides a plausible link between processes at the cellular level and observations of the action of the CT min at tissue and whole-organism levels...