Constitutive Differences in Immune Gene Expression Are Correlated With Wood Frog Populations From Contrasting Winter Environments.

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Many terrestrial ectotherms have gone to great evolutionary lengths to adapt to long cold winters; some have even evolved the ability to tolerate the freezing of most of the extracellular fluid in the body. Now, however, high-elevation and high-latitude winters are experiencing an accelerated period of warming. Specialised winter adaptations that promoted fitness in a seasonally frozen environment may soon be...

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