Growth of ice crystals can cause serious problems, such as frozen products deterioration,
road damage, energy losses, and safety risks of human beings. Antifreeze peptides (AFPs) …

Ice crystal growth during cold storage presents a quality problem in frozen foods. The
development of appropriate technical conditions and ingredient formulations is an effective …

Sturgeons seem to be frozen in time. The archaic characteristics of this ancient fish lineage
place it in a key phylogenetic position at the base of the~ 30,000 modern teleost fish …

Exploring a novel natural cryoprotectant and understanding its antifreeze mechanism allows
the rational design of future sustainable antifreeze analogues. In this study, various …

Key points In a cold environment, mammals increase their food intake while fish decrease or
stop feeding. However, the physiological value of fasting during cold resistance in fish is …

Abstract Icefishes (suborder Notothenioidei; family Channichthyidae) are the only
vertebrates that lack functional haemoglobin genes and red blood cells. Here, we report a …

New genes can arise through duplication of a pre-existing gene or de novo from non-coding
DNA, providing raw material for evolution of new functions in response to a changing …

Antarctic notothenioid fishes are the classic example of vertebrate adaptive radiation in a
marine environment. Notothenioids diversified from a single common ancestor∼ 22 Mya to …

Abstract Background The Southern Ocean is the coldest ocean on Earth but a hot spot of
evolution. The bottom-dwelling Eocene ancestor of Antarctic notothenioid fishes survived …

The vertebrate mitochondrial genomes generally present a typical gene order. Exceptions
are uncommon and important to study the genetic mechanisms of gene order …