A comic for the 'Bio/Mol/Text' 2024/2025 contest was published in the 'Clearly About Ineffable Things' category. It focuses on the research of Belgica antarctica mosquito larvae's adaptation to permafrost. The authors cite facts from scientific articles published between 1979 and 2022.
According to the article by Paraskeva Michailova et al., published in Insects (volume 12, number 792) in 2021, the morphology of B. antarctica larvae was studied in Maritime Antarctica.
JOHN G. BAUST and JOHN S. EDWARDS explored freeze tolerance mechanisms in B. antarctica mosquito larvae in a study published in Physiological Entomology (volume 4) in 1979.
Iryna Kozeretska et al., in an article published in Insect Science (volume 29), described B. antarctica as a model organism for studying extreme conditions in 2022.
Michael A. Elnitsky et al., investigated the regulation of osmoregulation and salinity tolerance in B. antarctica mosquito larvae exposed to seawater, publishing their article in the Journal of Experimental Biology (volume 212) in 2009.
The international biotechnology company BIOCAD is a general partner of the 'Bio/Mol/Text' 2024/2025 competition. Publishing house 'Alpina non-fiction' acts as the 'book' sponsor.