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Visualizing Visual Adaptation
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Visualizing Visual Adaptation

Published on: April 24, 2017

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50 years since the concept of homeoviscous adaptation

Dmitry A Los1, Anna V Leusenko1

  • 1K.A. Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Botanicheskaya street 35, 127276, Moscow, Russia.

Biochimie
|December 20, 2024
PubMed

Keywords:
Cold stressFatty acid desaturasesFatty acidsHeat stressHomeoviscous adaptationLipidsMembrane compressibilityMembrane fluidityMembrane viscosityMembranes

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