Sentence examples for drastic metamorphosis from inspiring English sources
Despite the drastic metamorphosis, however, scientists have disagreed about whether a butterfly makes a clean break with its caterpillar past.
We suppose that this drastic metamorphosis of Phaeocystis symbiont cells precludes a return to the free-living phase, hence representing an evolutionary bottleneck (Fig. 2).
In larvaceans, the transparency and absence of a drastic metamorphosis provides a complementary model system for the study of heart development.
These regulatory changes ensure that disk growth continues uninterrupted when the nutritive and endocrine signals undergo the drastic changes associated with metamorphosis.
The uncoupling of imaginal disk growth from nutrition and from the brain ensures that growth continues uninterrupted when the nutritive and cerebral neuroendocrine signals undergo the drastic changes associated with metamorphosis.
Metamorphosis marks drastic morphological, physiological, behavioural and ecological changes in the life cycles of animals [ 4].
Flatfish metamorphosis and other developmental events involve drastic morphological and physiological changes, the molecular basis of which remains poorly understood.
In the carpenter ant Camponotus floridanus, the primary endosymbiont Blochmania floridanus density undergoes drastic changes during the host developmental process, increasing during metamorphosis, and decreasing in the adult.
In the case of eels, the silvering metamorphosis, which represents the passage from juvenile to adult, is accompanied by drastic modifications at the physiological, morphological and ecological level that could explain the shifts in selection acting across life cycle stages.
The intestine is known to undergo drastic reduction in length, with as much as 90% reduction for the small intestine, during metamorphosis [ 48].
