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Cryopreservation of Insect Germplasm: Cells, Tissues and Organisms

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Insects at Low Temperature

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The concept of cyropreserving insect germplasm is not a new idea; entomologists and others using insects and/or cells in research, in education, or for commerce often successfully employ cold temperature to lengthen the shelf-life of their material. Why should we be concerned with furthering the science of insect cryopreservation? The answer is basically simple. There is a significant and widespread need to extend the applicability of long-term cold storage to a wider range of insect species, life stages, cells, and tissues. Practical applications for cryopreservation are abundant among the many disciplines utilizing insects or their cells. In most cases when whole insects are currently subjected to cold temperature for the purpose of storage, no special cryopreservative treatments are applied and often only those cold-tolerant species that possess an overwintering life stage are used. Furthermore, cryopreservation of insect cell and tissue cultures has evolved, with little modification, from the methods used to store vertebrate cells at low temperature. To date, the primary concern has been on gaining survival after freezing and little regard has been given to optimizing other parameters that may affect poststorage yield, viability, and differentiation of the insect cells and tissues.

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Leopold, R.A. (1991). Cryopreservation of Insect Germplasm: Cells, Tissues and Organisms. In: Lee, R.E., Denlinger, D.L. (eds) Insects at Low Temperature. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0190-6_16

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