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Estivation

Known as: aestivation 
Any process in which an organism enters and maintains a period of dormancy, similar to hibernation, but that occurs during the summer. It insulates… 
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Review
2015
Review
2015
Regulation of hypometabolism: insights into epigenetic controls
For many animals, survival of severe environmental stress (e.g. to extremes of heat or cold, drought, oxygen limitation, food… 
Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Transcriptome Sequencing and Characterization for the Sea Cucumber Apostichopus japonicus (Selenka, 1867)
Background Sea cucumbers are a special group of marine invertebrates. They occupy a taxonomic position that is believed to be… 
Review
2004
Review
2004
Metabolic rate depression in animals: transcriptional and translational controls
Metabolic rate depression is an important survival strategy for many animal species and a common element of hibernation, torpor… 
Review
2001
Review
2001
Evolution of floral symmetry.
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Chapter 20 Antioxidant defenses and animal adaptation to oxygen availability during environmental stress
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Dry season refugia of malaria-transmitting mosquitoes in a dry savannah zone of east Africa.
Dry season survival of Anopheles funestus, Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles arabiensis in the Kilombero valley a dry savannah zone… 
Review
1990
Review
1990
Thermal tolerance, evaporative water loss, air-water oxygen consumption and zonation of intertidal prosobranchs: a new synthesis
Duration of emergence increases with tidal height on rocky shores therefore, emergence adaptations in intertidal species such as… 
Review
1985
Review
1985
WATER‐REGULATORY BEHAVIOUR IN TERRESTRIAL GASTROPODS
1. Terrestrial snails and slugs are exceedingly susceptible to dehydration due to evaporative water loss from the integument and… 
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Effects of exercise, bedrest and napping on performance decrement during 40 hours.
Abstract : Young male Naval volunteers were denied normal nocturnal sleep and maintained on a 60-min treatment-160-min testing… 
Highly Cited
1965
Highly Cited
1965
Aestivation in the cactus mouse, Peromyscus eremicus.
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