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A spring field cricket (Gryllus veletis) lies on a table. It’s frozen and appears lifeless. But in minutes, a leg twitches. Within a day or two, the cricket is back to hopping around. How did it survive this frigid experience?
That’s what Jantina Toxopeus wants to figure out. She’s an assistant professor of biology at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada. She. This field explores pressures placed on organisms and how they adapt to them. Toxopeus’s research focuses on how insects like the cricket survive winter while frozen. They use an adaptation called.
