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What does pupal mean?

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  1. (entomology) Of or pertaining to the pupa stage of insect metamorphosis.
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All of these results show that the pupal male was almost always killed by the already eclosed male immediately after, or even before, eclosion.
Here they molt again, or pupate as it is called, changing to a non-feeding, quiescent stage called the pupal stage.
Thus, eye disc cells continue to proliferate until an even larger ecdysone pulse occurs during the middle of the pupal period.
Prior to pupal emergence, brood combs were placed in an incubator and newly emerged workers were paint-marked on the thorax.
The type of pupation site selected by larvae also affects pupal survival of D. melanogaster.
The rounded cuboidal shape of these cells is typically seen in undifferentiated lattice cells early in normal pupal retinal development.

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