Although many studies of ectothermic vertebrates have documented compensatory changes in cold hardiness associated with changes of season, much less attention has been paid to adjustment of physiological functions and survival limits following more acute exposure to cold. We investigated the ability of hatchling painted turtles (Chrysemys picta) to increase cold hardiness in response to brief e...

Abstract Background Psychrotrophic lactic acid bacteria (LAB) species are the dominant in microbiota of cold-stored modified-atmosphere-packaged food products and main cause spoilage. Despite importance psychrotrophic LAB, their response to cold or heat has not been studied. Here, we studied transcriptome-level cold- heat-shock spoilage with time-series RNA-seq for Le. gelidum, Lc. piscium , P....

Compared to bacteria and plants, the cold shock response has attracted little attention in mammals except in some areas such as adaptive thermogenesis, cold tolerance, storage of cells and organs, and recently, treatment of brain damage and protein production. At the cellular level, some responses of mammalian cells are similar to microorganisms; cold stress changes the lipid composition of cel...