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Abstract
Three species of Antarctic fishes which live in constantly near-freezing waters have a markedly low upper-lethal temperature of 6 degrees C ; this is the lowest upper-lethal temperature reported for any organism. The fishes survive supercooling to -2.5 degrees C. Data on brain metabolism in vitro support the hypothesis that the central nervous system is a primary site of thermal injury.Entities:
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Year: 1967 PMID: 6021046 DOI: 10.1126/science.156.3772.257
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN: 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728