Sentence examples for a molt from inspiring English sources

Thyroxine increases during a molt in wild and captive birds, and thyroidectomy prevents induction of molt.

Similarly, activity of a molt gland may be responsible for differentiation of the reproductive caste.

Plumage is replaced by a molt lasting four months to several years.

The actual timing of a molt, however, is regulated by other hormones and commonly by environmental factors.

Male decapods can copulate only when their exoskeleton is fully hardened, while some females are capable of copulation only after a molt when their shells are soft.

Most ardeids do not have an alternate plumage (Pyle and Howell 2004), however, so it is unlikely that the creamy color is acquired through a molt.

True, Biden would go on the radio to say nice things about a molting pigeon, but still.

With his mother gone, civilization began to fall away from him like feathers from a molting hen.

Romney has spent the last few weeks shedding his "severely conservative" plumage like the feathers from a molting chicken.

Back at the house my family would just be having breakfast when I got home, and like a molting lobster I'd shed my yellow foul-weather pants before stepping into the kitchen.

A genome-wide RNAi screen found a molting defect for Y47D3B.1, but not for any other DUF23 protein [27].