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PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY
Volume 84, Issue 2, Pages 147-153Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/658499
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- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research [0313838A]
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Several aquatic organisms are able to withstand extreme desiccation in at least one of their life stages. This is commonly known as anhydrobiosis. It was often thought that to tolerate such a desiccated state required high amounts of compatible solutes such as the nonreducing disaccharide trehalose, which protects cellular structures by water replacement and glass formation. Trehalose levels of dormant eggs and cysts of five freshwater crustaceans (Daphnia magna, Daphnia pulex, Triops longicaudatus, Triops cancriformis, and Triops australiensis) were observed in different states of hydration and dehydration. Although trehalose was detected in all species, the concentration was under 0.5% of the dry weight (0.05 mu g/mu g protein), and no change between the different states was observed. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measurements indicated that dried cysts of all Triops species were in a glassy state, supporting the vitrification hypothesis. No indication for a vitreous state was found in dried resting eggs of Daphnia.
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