The juvenile stage of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) can last for decades.
A long early juvenile stage with unossified limb bones, during which individuals grew to almost final size, was followed by a slow-growing late juvenile stage with ossified limbs that lasted for at least six years in some individuals.
Moss has two life forms – filamentous protonemata representing the juvenile stage, and leafy gametophores representing the adult stage.
The overall aspect of relief, however, exhibits characteristics of an early, or juvenile, stage in the cycle of erosion.
It is perhaps in its juvenile stage, when it is smaller, that it poses a greater risk through mistaken identity.
Harlequins are also particularly prone to feeding on other ladybird species, particularly at the larval (juvenile) stage.
And you may be extending its childhood; constant fertilization tends to keep plants in the juvenile stage.
Adult body size in higher animals is dependent on the amount of growth that occurs during the juvenile stage.
A positive genetic correlation (r = 0.47, P ≤ 0.001) was observed between SDI in the juvenile stage and bean yield.
The long-lived beech tree (Fagus sylvatica), for example, passes 30 40 years in the juvenile stage, during which time there is rapid growth but no flowering.
The researchers identified a nematode gene responsible for the proteins and showed that they were produced in a juvenile stage of the parasite, by esophageal glands.
