This observed acceleration of the metamorphic process occurred entirely between stages 25 and 39; treated tadpoles proceeding through metamorphosis as control animals beyond this point.
In "The Santa Clause," the character played by Tim Allen gets there through metamorphosis: he becomes St. Nick.
Also, as I've read through Metamorphosis and Other Stories (and since moved on to The Trial), I've started to notice another aspect of Kafka's unsettling worldview.
Fiction works through metamorphosis: in every era authors explore the concerns of their times by mapping them on to invented worlds, whether they be political dystopias, fabulous kingdoms or supernatural dimensions.
Zoos have gone through metamorphosis in recent decades, largely in response to the changing tide of the society.
The apposition eye continues to function in many adult crustaceans, like some crabs, which carry the larval plan through metamorphosis, remodeling it by enlarging the eye and adding pigment and support.
They assumed that the larvae transformed into juveniles through metamorphosis, that the juveniles transformed into adults through a maturation process, and that the adults then gave birth to the larvae.
Together with proceeding through metamorphosis at a faster rate, tadpoles exposed to atrazine concentrations in the range of 1 100 μg/L furthermore transformed into significantly larger metamorphs than controls, the concentration response curve taking the form of an inverted U in this case.
We use a novel application of a multistate, robust design capture recapture model to estimate survival of reintroduced tadpoles through metamorphosis (i.e., the number of individuals emerging from the pond) and thereby provide a quantitative measure of effort and success for an "in progress" reintroduction of toads.
Some species go through metamorphosis while still inside the egg and hatch directly into small frogs.
