BioConcepts

hypobiosisHypobiose (ger.)

• A physiological state with reduced metabolic activity.
  category sleep

  1934

  ipobiosi nei Cirripedi

  Monterosso, B. (1934). L’anabiosi nei Cirripedi e il problema della vita latente (ipobiosi). Arch. Zool. (Napoli) 19, 17-379.

  1959

  In nature and under experimental conditions the same organism may show a complete gradation between the states of high biological and metabolic activity, a more or less deep dormancy, or torpor due to hibernation, aestivation, diapause or quiescence associated with a lower but still measurable metabolism (hypometabolism), and the state of ametabolic latent life, or cryptobiosis. All these states of an organism are well covered by the term hypobiosis introduced, in a somewhat different sense, by Monterosso (I934).

  Keilin, D. (1959). The Leeuwenhoek lecture – the problem of anabiosis or latent life: history and current concept. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 150, 149-191: 166.

  1982

  hypobiosis The condition in which only minimal outward signs of metabolic activity are present in a dormant organism.

  Lincoln, R.J., Boxshall, G.A. & Clark, P.F. (1982). A Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics: 122.

  1982

  hypobiosis The condition in which only minimal outward signs of metabolic activity are present in a dormant organism.

  Lincoln, R.J., Boxshall, G.A. & Clark, P.F. (1982). A Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics: 122.