The phrase "a mode of development" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a particular method or approach to growth or progress in various contexts, such as economics, education, or personal development.
Example: "The researchers proposed a new mode of development that emphasizes sustainability and community involvement."
Alternatives: "a method of development" or "an approach to development".
Our model, the anthozoan Nematostella vectensis, is a sea anemone with a sequenced genome and a mode of embryonic development that is amenable to gene manipulation experiments (Putnam et al., 2007; Technau and Steele, 2011).
Interestingly, axolotls maintain higher embryonic-type hemoglobin (hbe) mRNA levels than tigers throughout the larval period, a pattern that is consistent with a paedomorphic mode of development.
For example, although the tunicates, including the ascidian Ciona intestinalis, are thought to be the closest relative to the vertebrates [4], their embryos have a peculiar mode of development based on the existence of a fixed lineage [5].
At a certain stage of maturity, quantifiable physical growth slows and stops, and a new mode of development takes over.
Together, these findings suggest that the retention of a regulative mode of development at late stages by amniote embryos (that allows the formation of the types of monozygotic twins that arise relatively late in development, including Siamese twins) evolved through novel uses of an ancient pathway, involved in both mesendoderm development and left right asymmetry, but in slightly different ways.
Although this model has generated a great breadth of knowledge on the physiology and function of the avian immune system, its applicability to passerine birds is dubious, as passerines express an altricial mode of development that differs dramatically from the precocial mode of development.
At present, there are only few studies that document the neuronal differentiation for complete developmental series and they focus on polychaetes with an indirect mode of development [ 28- 31].
Further implementation and refinement of quantitative structure-toxicity relationships in aquatic toxicology and hazard assessment requires the development of a "mode-of-action" database.
Unlike most animals, plants employ a post-embryonic mode of development driven by the continuous activity of pluripotent stem cells.
For upogebiid prawns, this is a slightly abbreviated mode of development, since many species pass through four zoeal stages prior to metamorphosis [ 48, 49].
