What's the difference between exuvia and exuviae?

Exuvia


Definition:

  • () n. sing. of Exuviae.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The cuticle of the gill lamina obtained from exuviae had similar properties.
  • (2) Nymphal exuviae of Ap, concolor were highly attractive to adult ticks.
  • (3) In the colonial summer phase, house bees care for the young and keep brood cells clean from feces and exuviae.
  • (4) The emergence of the Pernyi silkmoth from the pupal exuviae is dictated by a brain-centered, photosensitive clock.
  • (5) Two hundred larvae were added to each of a number of soil-filled, plastic tubes, which were buried in the field and retrieved after 2, 5, and 7 d. Of 306 pupae or pupal exuviae recovered, 98.1% were in the top 2 cm of mud.
  • (6) Between cuticles deposited with beta-ecdysone, new formed ducts take place in the theorical imaginal exuvia.
  • (7) One strain attached in approximately equal numbers to both exuviae and whole specimens.
  • (8) Results showed that four of five clinical V. cholerae O1 strains and endogenous bacterial flora were attached preferentially to zooplankton molts (exuviae) rather than to whole specimens.

Exuviae


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) Cast skins, shells, or coverings of animals; any parts of animals which are shed or cast off, as the skins of snakes, the shells of lobsters, etc.
  • (n. pl.) The fossil shells and other remains which animals have left in the strata of the earth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The cuticle of the gill lamina obtained from exuviae had similar properties.
  • (2) Nymphal exuviae of Ap, concolor were highly attractive to adult ticks.
  • (3) In the colonial summer phase, house bees care for the young and keep brood cells clean from feces and exuviae.
  • (4) The emergence of the Pernyi silkmoth from the pupal exuviae is dictated by a brain-centered, photosensitive clock.
  • (5) Two hundred larvae were added to each of a number of soil-filled, plastic tubes, which were buried in the field and retrieved after 2, 5, and 7 d. Of 306 pupae or pupal exuviae recovered, 98.1% were in the top 2 cm of mud.
  • (6) Between cuticles deposited with beta-ecdysone, new formed ducts take place in the theorical imaginal exuvia.
  • (7) One strain attached in approximately equal numbers to both exuviae and whole specimens.
  • (8) Results showed that four of five clinical V. cholerae O1 strains and endogenous bacterial flora were attached preferentially to zooplankton molts (exuviae) rather than to whole specimens.

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