DISCONTINUOUS RESPIRATION IN INSECTS AT LOW TEMPERATURES: INTRATRACHEAL PRESSURE CHANGES AND SPIRACULAR VALVE BEHAVIOR

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1 October 1974

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Published by University of Chicago Press in The Biological Bulletin

Vol. 147 (2) , 294-310
https://doi.org/10.2307/1540450

Abstract

1. Experiments were performed to examine the effects of temperatures down to - 20° C on discontinuous respiration in diapausing Cecropia pupae. Methods were developed that permitted simultaneous re...

Keywords

SPIRACULAR VALVES
CONSTRICTION
INTRATRACHEAL
CEASED AT SOME TEMPERATURE
VALVES REMAINED
DISCONTINUOUS
TEMPERATURES

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