How To Use Molting In A Sentence
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He is also probably quite ratty at this time because he is moulting.
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Snyder and Mulder reported that exposure of Homarus americanus larvae to the cyclodiene pesticide heptachlor can cause a delay in molting.
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It is not long after this molting is complete that they start a second molt to acquire their alternate plumage.
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There is no clear evidence to differentiate encrustation prior to molting from postmortem encrustation on the external surface of carapaces.
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Maturation involves 7-8 molts, and molting continues into adulthood.
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Because of their ill-judged moulting they are quite featherless.
CHAPTER XXXVI
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In general, healed injuries are considered to have resulted from trauma during molting or wounds by predatory attack.
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Ecdysone therefore is sometimes called molting hormone.
The Human Brain
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The second clade includes arthropods and other molting animals: tardigrades, onychophorans, nematodes, nematomorphans, kinorhynchs, and priapulans.
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It was in April, I think: the dragonfly nymphs were molting by the river.
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All of these tissues, except the salivary gland, are considered necessary for the process of larval molting.
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It was featherless, but stood a foot tall on spindly jointed legs; its face was avian but - like the body - fat and dotted with patchy, moulting orange fur.
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It is not long after this molting is complete that they start a second molt to acquire their alternate plumage.
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It inhibits ecdysis and ultimately, apolysis, the first stage in the moulting process in which separation of the old cuticle from the underlying epidermal cells takes place.
Chapter 7
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It was featherless, but stood a foot tall on spindly jointed legs; its face was avian but - like the body - fat and dotted with patchy, moulting orange fur.
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We define ‘adult’ as any bird that has completed its first annual wing molt and has therefore acquired definitive remiges (some first-year males may still be molting on the gorget and crown).
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During pre-adult life, the exoskeleton is therefore renewed a number of times by the process of moulting or ecdysis.
Chapter 6
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This process of casting off the old skin is called molting, and is repeated four times during the one, two, three or more weeks of larval life.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases
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This chemical is a growth regulator that inhibits the molting process in grasshoppers.
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The battling blennies seem to have just about exhausted themselves when a shore crab wanders by, carrying the torn-off claw of a colleague that was unlucky enough to be disturbed while soft after moulting its armour.
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Insect molting is controlled by a hormone produced by a gland THE HUMAN BRAIN located in the forward portion of the thorax and therefore called the prothoracic gland.
The Human Brain
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It's called molting and it is very important. is becoming a very common bird in our area.
Chron.com Chronicle
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We have assumed that a reduction in sea ice area is largely detrimental to icebreeding seals but it is conceivable that, similar to their more temperate relatives, they may move to landbased haul-outs, moulting, and pupping areas.
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As no mother-pup pairs were observed, these ledges are molting but not pupping ledges.
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Molting may continue into adulthood, and there may be more than forty molts in the life of a thysanuran.
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How often I see feathers molting to the ground-what's left of something in which nothing's to be found.
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Thus plumage soiling not only provides instant camouflage but, unlike molting, is easily reversible.
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Larval molting in Drosophila, as in other insects, is initiated by the coordinated release of the steroid hormone ecdysone, in response to neural signals, at precise stages during development.
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In general, healed injuries are considered to have resulted from trauma during molting or wounds by predatory attack.
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The mews were the buildings where the hawks were kept when moulting, the word "mew" being a term used by falconers to signify to moult, or cast feathers; and the King's Mews, near Charing Cross, was the place where the royal hawks were kept.
Old English Sports
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How often I see feathers molting to the ground-what's left of something in which nothing's to be found.
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Each time the caterpillar grows bigger, it sheds its skin in a process called molting.
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For the those of you who don't know about the moulting, shitting, barking, licking, drooling beast that's staying at my house for two weeks, you can learn more about her here .
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Soft shell crabs are crabs that are molting, which is when the hard shell of the crab grows about 30 percent.
Serious Eats: New York
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Once a year, for the duration of their lives, penguins lose and replace every single feather on their bodies in a process called molting.
The Great Penguin Rescue
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They seem to keep molting, meaning they're most likely growing.
Childrens' books, spiders, mithras, martian halloween
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Faced with few alternatives to reduce the oppressive debt burden incurred through the 2008 Fording Coal acquisition, Teck continues to slough off gold assets like some kind of molting serpent.
Fool.com: The Motley Fool
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When the lobster grows, it undergoes a process called molting, when the animal sheds its old exoskeleton and grows a new, larger one.
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The molting style of isopods provides the final problem for the interpretation of fossil isopods.
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Fossil groupings of up to 1000 trilobites suggest they were social creatures, at least while molting.
Social Trilobites
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Finally, the conspicuous polychaete sponge Isodlctya erinacea produces the yellow pigment erebusinone, a tryptophan catabolite similar to catabolites regulating crustacean molting.
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In modern lobsters, the carapace material is partially resorbed prior to molting, making the carapace thin and weak.
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From seeing the need for general digital publishing, to changing the business to focus on a gap in the ecology, to expanding outwards to the creation of standalone software and a retail channel, to the building of a document business, and now to the building of a universal media-application platform ... each "molting" of the business required a clear commitment to the next generation of growth ... betting big on that inevitability which cannot yet be proven.
Adobe Blogs
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Reaching the South Atlantic coast, we head down the steep cliffs on foot to find a colony of elephant seals basking on the shore, a huge black male surrounded by a harem of smaller females, all in the process of moulting.
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Although most non-breeders and failed nesters left the breeding colony to molt, small flocks of molting adults and subadults without young were seen on Bylot Island every year.
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Young fish, young crabs and molting crabs have lost shelter and refuge from their predators.
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This specimen looks a bit odd because it, like most specimens from the Wheeler Shale, is missing its ‘free cheeks’, semicircular portions of the head that broke away during molting.
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Exuviation: the act of molting: the cast-off skin or exuvium.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
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Molecular studies support the monophyly of all these taxa as Ecdysozoa, so the term Spiralia is sometimes used as a synonym for the non-molting protostomes, Lophotrochozoa.
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Reaching the South Atlantic coast, we head down the steep cliffs on foot to find a colony of elephant seals basking on the shore, a huge black male surrounded by a harem of smaller females, all in the process of moulting.
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When the lobster grows, it undergoes a process called molting, when the animal sheds its old exoskeleton and grows a new, larger one.
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Both the molting process and the metamorphic transformation from larva to pupa are coordinated and regulated by hormones.
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It is not long after this molting is complete that they start a second molt to acquire their alternate plumage.
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In modern lobsters, the carapace material is partially resorbed prior to molting, making the carapace thin and weak.
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Cruickshank, the dachshund, nosed his way around the doorpost, between Katherine's ankles and curled up on a rumpled, moulting hearth-rug.
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It might be a good idea to relate strip-teasing in some way to the...zoological phenomenon of molting,...which is ecdysis.
Archive 2007-11-01
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Considering that the roots of the word "ecdysiast" have to do with molting, this is particularly charming to me.
The Return of the Return of Burlesque
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In juvenile birds and birds molting into adult plumage for the first time, the shield was typically a deep purple.
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Maturation involves 7-8 molts, and molting continues into adulthood.
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The drakes soon abandon the brood and gather at moulting grounds at the end of June.
