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A comparison of photoperiodic control of diapause between aestivation and hibernation in the cabbage butterfly Pieris melete

Increased urea synthesis and/or suppressed ammonia production in the African lungfish, Protopterus annectens, during aestivation in air or mud.

Neuronal background of activation of estivated snails, with special attention to the monoaminergic system: a biochemical, physiological, and neuroanatomical study.

Differential NOS expression in freshwater and aestivating Protopterus dolloi (lungfish): Heart vs kidney readjustments

Water balance and arginine vasotocin in the cocooning frog Cyclorana platycephala (hylidae).

Control of breathing in African lungfish (Protopterus dolloi): a comparison of aquatic and cocooned (terrestrialized) animals.

[Spatiotemporal characteristics of activation of the heart of hibernating and non-hibernating mammals during hypothermia].

The terrestrial snail, Helix pomatia, adapts to environmental conditions by the modulation of central arousal.

The enigma of aestivation in the African lungfish Protopterus dolloi--commentary on the paper by Perry et al.

Parental effects: Physiological age, mating pattern, and diapause duration on diapause incidence of progeny in the cabbage beetle, Colaphellus bowringi Baly (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

Skeletal muscle extracellular matrix remodelling after aestivation in the green striped burrowing frog, Cyclorana alboguttata.

Effects of aestivation and starvation on the neutral lipid and phospholipid content of Biomphalaria glabrata infected with Schistosoma mansoni.

The African lungfish (Protopterus dolloi): ionoregulation and osmoregulation in a fish out of water.

Biomarker response and biomass change of earthworms exposed to chlorpyrifos in microcosms.

The potential role of CO2 in initiation and maintenance of estivation in the land snail Helix lucorum.

Differential expression of aquaporin 3 in Triturus italicus from larval to adult epidermal conversion.

Is torpor only an advantage? Effect of thermal environment on torpor use in the Siberian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus).

Income breeding allows an aquatic snake Seminatrix pygaea to reproduce normally following prolonged drought-induced aestivation.

Microanatomy and ultrastructure of the kidney of the African lungfish Protopterus dolloi.

Lessons from an estivating frog: sparing muscle protein despite starvation and disuse.