Surviving freezing through leg amputation. But be careful about regeneration!

Episode 45 - Surviving freezing through leg amputation. But be careful about regeneration!

This week we discussed how flies survive in freezing temperatures with Anne Sustar, a Research Scientist / Lab Manager, Dominic Golding, a medical student, and John Tuthill (@casa_tuthill), Associate professor at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Read the full preprint -> Adult Drosophila legs do not regenerate after amputation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.25.513553v1

Article: Snow flies self-amputate freezing limbs to sustain behavior at sub-zero temperatures

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982223012150?via%3Dihub

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