Molecular Mechanisms of Metabolic Arrest Life in Limbo

Many organisms can strongly reduce their resting metabolic rate, entering a state of torpor or even suspended animation to allow them to survive under adverse environmental conditions. Molecular Mechanisms of Metabolic Arrest: Life in Limbo provides the latest opinions on the molecular mechanisms and principles of dormancy regulation, highlighting new concepts in metabolic rate control. This book will have great appeal to all molecular and comparative scientists studying organismal responses to environmental stress. It also has relevance for medical researchers interested in how natural systems of hypometabolism can be applied to related problems in medicine. Molecular Mechanisms of Metabolic Arrest: Life in Limbo includes contributions from many internationally respected scientists focusing on: -Membrane transporters and mitochondrial proton leak -Stress-induced gene expression -Anoxia tolerance and thermostasis in hpoxic animals -Hibernation and estivation -Role of stress proteins in protection during metabolic arrest -Diapause and desiccation in animals and plants This book is in the BIOS series Experimental Biology Reviews. The series is published in association with the Society for Experimental Biology.