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Also, most specimens are molts, based on thickness of the carapace and posterior displacement of the sternal plastron.
Molting may continue into adulthood, and there may be more than forty molts in the life of a thysanuran.
At concentrations of 5 ppb and above, however, the number of molts increased with an average of one third of the animals undergoing molts.
Interpretations of food sources of micronekton could be helped by analyzing their molts or fecal pellets, which responded faster to a new diet.
Both specimens are probably molts, as only the dorsal carapace is preserved.
As the larva feeds and grows, it molts, shedding its cuticle.
Another subunit appears about the time of metamorphosis to first juvenile instar, and expression of a sixth subunit begins four or five molts later.
Maturation involves 7-8 molts, and molting continues into adulthood.
Post-embryonic development takes place during a series of four molts.
When a Uloborus emerges from an egg sac, its cribellum is not formed and it can not produce capture threads until it molts and enters the next developmental stage.
Together, they collect flotsam and wrack that tell of shipwrecks, shifting undersea tectonic plates, the birth and death of sea creatures, their migrations and molts.
One month later, lobstermen in Western Long Island Sound began to report sightings of gravid female lobsters dying in the throes of abortive molts.
A 1990 report, for example, said Archbold's bowerbirds decorate with plumes from a bird of paradise species that molts only two of the big feathers a year.
The larva molts again at 72 hours to become a third-stage larva.
He followed more than 1,200 caterpillars from the time they hatched, all the way through four molts and until they pupated.
Toward the end of the second album the photography burst into color to celebrate the vivid vestiture of her adolescent molts.
Therefore, the criteria for distinguishing fossil scorpion molts and carcasses may also be useful for distinguishing fossil eurypterid molts and carcasses.
Monitoring of rice weevil, Sitophilus oryzae, feeding behavior in maize seeds and the occurrence of supernumerary molts in low-humidity conditions.
Examples from Classical Literature
These molt on the sixteenth day to form an octopod nymph, which molts again the twenty-first day.
I have not seen enough material to trace subsequent molts and plumages, which doubtless parallel those of the parula warbler.
It molts three times, and in from twelve to twenty days is ready to pupate, or change to a chrysalis.
In July, after nesting, the male molts into a plumage resembling that of the female, when both are known as reedbird.
When the crab has no more room to grow, it sheds the old skeleton, or molts.
There is also some confusion concerning the number of molts annually in this species.
After a crab molts, it digs out of the sand and may search for a bigger seashell.
Annual molts and interruption of the fall migration for molting in lazuli buntings.
Males exposed to 63 ppb pyrene had fewer molts during the 6-week exposure period than males at other exposure levels.
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