Sentences with phrase «juvenile form»

Most of these medications control adult and juvenile forms of fleas and flea eggs, as well as ticks and mosquitoes.

But these laws still include tiny juvenile forms: «Lobsters can have around 7000 microscopic babies at one time,» he says, and recording each organism would be a time - consuming process.

These are a Mexican form of tiger salamander (A. tigrinum) that are neotenic, meaning they reach adulthood without ever leaving juvenile form.

Basquiat and Diaz created something strange and beguiling out of a degraded and often juvenile form, albeit one that has been around since time immemorial.

Mutations of the huntingtin protein (HTT) gene underlie both adult - onset and juvenile forms of Huntington's disease (HD).

They cite plenty of evidence: In the Northeast, where Lyme is endemic, the disease is spread by nymphs (the tick's juvenile form) of Ixodes scapularis, commonly known as blacklegged ticks.

Juvenile forms of tiny spiders such as A. simoni tip the scales at less than 5 micrograms, but have the web - weaving smarts of much larger arachnids, says William Eberhard of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and the University of Costa Rica.

A juvenile form of Huntington's disease also can appear during the teenage years.

Researchers have identified a gene that, when mutated, appears to cause the juvenile form of glaucoma, an aggressive form of the disease that can strike teenagers.

Marine biologist Peter Hayward of the University of Wales and his colleagues speculate that the spherical colonies may be a juvenile form of a familiar bryozoan species.

An adult transforms itself through transdifferentiation — converting one type of cell into another — back into a juvenile form.

There is also a juvenile form of Huntington's disease, which can occur during the teenage years.

Less than a millimetre across even with its spines, the juvenile form shown here has recently metamorphosed from the free - swimming larval stage and is beginning its new life on the sea floor, consuming organic material it scrapes from the surface of sand grains.

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)-- a juvenile form of motor neuron disease leading to weakness and wasting of voluntary muscles — is caused by a loss of the SMN1 gene, but even the most severely affected patients retain a functional copy of an almost identical gene, SMN2.

They were financed by Advanced Cell Technology, a biotech company with laboratories in Marlborough, Massachusetts, that recently won approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to test the treatment in 24 patients suffering from either dry advanced macular degeneration, or a juvenile form of the disease known as Stargardt's.

One mutation (HSF4 - 1) observed in the Staffordshire Bull Terrier, Boston Terrier and French Bulldog acts as an autosomal recessive and results in the development of the juvenile form of cataract in dogs homozygous for the mutation.

On the other hand, Pyriproxyfen works by preventing the juvenile forms of fleas to grow or reach maturity.

We know that the juvenile form of demodectic mange often cures itself after a period of a month or so.

Juvenile form?