Sentence examples for moult it from inspiring English sources

In summer, however, chickens stop laying and moult; it may last for six weeks and the comb may pale though, it should return to normal and laying should resume afterwards.

Harp seals suffer directly because they depend on ice (they give birth on it, moult on it and use it for rest while hunting).

After moulting, it takes 1 to 3 weeks for the exoskeleton to harden, depending on the animal's size, during which time the animal's body is soft and vulnerable, and it stays hidden for protection.

However, while eyestalk ablation can be effective at inducing moulting, it also leads to lethal ecdysis in some species [ 32].

There is really no 'perceived deep commonality' in the developmental basis of moulting – it is simply the case that moulting is the only thing that appears to unite the ecdysozoan animals, and as such it is an inferred rather than perceived commonality.

It is officially endangered, with only a few hundred of the species still alive, but it can often be spotted as it moults its winter coat on the shores at the beginning of summer.

After it moults into its last instar, it sets off wandering to seek a female.

On the other hand, it could be possible that the grebe became infected in another European country and after that arrived to Salburua pond to feather moult, where it died.

The nauplius III stage undergoes several moults before it transforms into a cyprid stage [ 12].

But the Dzhungarian dwarf hamster moults its grey-and-black pelage twice each year, replacing it with a thicker coat of white fur for winter – a trait that is typically not seen in indoor pets nor in those kept under artificially long days and relative warmth.

By comparing the expression patterns of transcripts from each moult cycle stage it was possible to identify genes with potential involvement in various aspects of the moulting process.