First, she laid a small cluster of eggs on the earthen floor.
It was Isabel Mateus, an amateur speleologist, who made a major discovery in 1993 on a seaside cliff at Paimogo, north of Lourinha, when she chanced upon a large cluster of eggs while walking with her 3-year-old daughter, Marta.
Poison frogs fertilize their eggs externally; the female lays a cluster of eggs and a male fertilizes them afterward, in the same manner as most fish.
We therefore hypothesize that the uv1 s release an inhibitory neurohormone in response to a cluster of egg-laying events, inducing long term silencing of HSN activity and egg-laying behavior corresponding to the inactive phase of egg-laying.
In Colorado, adults lay a cluster of eggs covered by a filamentous film on the underside of a leaf in mid-May.
As in those two species, our study revealed that both sexes in A. biunguiculata routinely mate with multiple mates within the period of time it takes a male to brood one cluster of eggs.
— Julia Moskin The Hungry Housewife: If you're part of a family that likes to follow up Thanksgiving with a hearty breakfast on Friday morning, consider these baked clusters of egg, cheese, sausage and hash browns.
In stages 0 to 1, myc2 expression was up-regulated in the large clusters of egg precursor cells, which proliferate and aggregate to form the egg field (Fig. 2A).
Calm waters and warm temperatures this spring have provided ideal spawning conditions for the crabs, which deposit their clusters of eggs on the sand.
The female skinks lay clusters of eggs under sunny rocks and logs, and their nests are heating up.
They have underwater breeding dens, usually large hollows under rocks or in crevices, where they allow several females to enter to lay large clusters of eggs.
