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Periodic Graphics: How animals survive freezing

Chemical educator and Compound Interest blogger Andy Brunning explores how some critters adapt to subzero temperatures.

by Andy Brunning, special to C&EN
January 31, 2021 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 99, Issue 4

 

This three-column infographic explains how some animals survive freezing conditions.
Andy Brunning/C&EN
This three-column infographic explains how some animals survive freezing conditions.
Andy Brunning/C&EN

To download a pdf of this article, visit cenm.ag/cryocritters.

References used to create this graphic:

Storey, Kenneth B., and Janet M. Storey. “Natural Freezing Survival in Animals.” Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 27 (1996): 365–86.

Costanzo, Jon P., Alice M. Reynolds, M. Clara F. do Amaral, Andrew J. Rosendale, and Richard E. Lee Jr. “Cryoprotectants and Extreme Freeze Tolerance in a Subarctic Population of the Wood Frog.” PLOS One (Feb. 2015). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117234.

Duman, John G. “Animal Ice-Binding (Antifreeze) Proteins and Glycolipids: An Overview with Emphasis on Physiological Function.” J. Exp. Biol. (2015). DOI: 10.1242/jeb.116905.


A collaboration between C&EN and Andy Brunning, author of the popular graphics blog Compound Interest

To see more of Brunning’s work, go to compoundchem.com. To see all of C&EN’s Periodic Graphics, visit http://cenm.ag/periodicgraphics.

 

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