Sentences with phrase «larval stage of growth»

Fertilized limpet eggs released into the sea drift through the larval stage of growth, eventually finding home and adhering to the seabed to join a benthos community.
Parasitic worms, like heartworms, go through 5 larval stages of growth (L1, L2, etc).

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«Faster growth during the larval stage should lead to a survival advantage because they can develop sooner and get out of the dangerous pelagic environment faster,» he says.
(It should be noted that the knockdown of the TOR pathway in the fat body severely affects larval growth [8]; therefore, Lsp2 - GAL4, which is expressed in the fat body at the wandering stage — after the growth period [13]-- was used to overexpress TSC1 / 2 in order to avoid secondary effects from a systemic growth defect.)
Disruption of upd2 down - regulated animals» growth from larval to adult stages [9], whereas CCHa2 - R mutations reduced growth until late - L3 stages, after which growth was recovered, leading to adults of normal size (Fig 7A).
Mutants of both CCHa2 and CCHa2 - R display severe growth retardation during larval stages.
In insects, final body size is mostly a product of growth in the larval stages.
Taken together, these findings indicate that CCHa2 / CCHa2 - R signaling is a major regulator of Dilps until the mid - to late third - instar larval stages and that the growth recovery observed in later - stage mutants is due to the up - regulation of dilp6 resulting from the impairment of Dilp expression in the brain.
Aim Experimental simulation of near ‐ future ocean acidification (OA) has been demonstrated to affect growth and development of echinoderm larval stages through energy allocation towards ion and pH compensatory processes.
These responses include impacts on calcification rates [18,19], immune function [20], reproduction and carryover effects in larval and juvenile stages of invertebrates [21], enhanced productivity in phytobenthos [22 — 25] but reduced calcification and growth in calcareous algae [26 — 28].
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