What's the difference between metamorphosis and pupal?

Metamorphosis


Definition:

  • (n.) Change of form, or structure; transformation.
  • (n.) A change in the form or function of a living organism, by a natural process of growth or development; as, the metamorphosis of the yolk into the embryo, of a tadpole into a frog, or of a bud into a blossom. Especially, that form of sexual reproduction in which an embryo undergoes a series of marked changes of external form, as the chrysalis stage, pupa stage, etc., in insects. In these intermediate stages sexual reproduction is usually impossible, but they ultimately pass into final and sexually developed forms, from the union of which organisms are produced which pass through the same cycle of changes. See Transformation.
  • (n.) The change of material of one kind into another through the agency of the living organism; metabolism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Birthdates of neurons were obtained from autoradiograms of animals receiving tritiated thymidine from gastrulation through 1 month after metamorphosis.
  • (2) It is that beautiful moment when the original Metamorphosis is destroyed so that it can be refashioned for a global community of readers in dire need of new forms of storytelling.
  • (3) During the first 15 to 20 min of metamorphosis the larval arms are retracted and resorbed into the aboral surface of the juvenile.
  • (4) These antibodies were used to study the localization and synthesis of myosin heavy chain and tropomyosin in the limb buds of premetamorphic (stage VI-VII) tadpoles treated with triiodothyronine (T3) to induce metamorphosis.
  • (5) Not so in 2012, with the shortlist for outstanding achievement in dance revealed as Edward Watson for The Metamorphosis at Covent Garden; Sylvie Guillem for 6,000 Miles Away at Sadler's Wells and Tommy Franzen for Some Like it Hip Hop at the Peacock.
  • (6) Secondary echinococcosis generates by asexual regressive metamorphosis of larval element intro larval forms.
  • (7) About 2 weeks after metamorphosis, midwife toads Alytes obstetricans judge the size of a prey object mainly in scales of visual angle.
  • (8) The present investigation examines metamorphosis in the sternal ribs of American blacks (N = 53 males, N = 20 females), and tests the application of age estimation standards developed by the authors from a white population.
  • (9) Both experiments provided evidence that the shape of persistent leg motoneurons is stabilized and even regulated by cellular interactions during metamorphosis.
  • (10) Observations suggest changes induced by the cholesterol diet are comparable to cytologic alterations seen in spontaneous and drug induced hepatic tumors, as well as to more general "fatty metamorphosis" of the liver.
  • (11) Other workers have shown that prolactin blocks the rise in activity of several hydrolytic enzymes that occurs in regressing tissue during metamorphosis.
  • (12) The cup-shaped adhesive papillae of Distaplia occidentalis evert at the onset of metamorphosis and each transforms into a hyperboloidal configuration.
  • (13) Representative animals were reared through metamorphosis and their visuotectal projections were assayed using standard electrophysiology techniques.
  • (14) Exposure of embryos to 10(-8) M T3, which regulates amphibian metamorphosis, resulted in the premature induction of albumin mRNA, such that it is evident by stage 43.
  • (15) The study represents the first immunohistochemical demonstration of IR-TRH in larval anurans, and serves as a basis for clarification of the neuroendocrine regulation of metamorphosis.
  • (16) During insect metamorphosis many larval neurons persist but are modified to serve new behavioral roles at later stages of life.
  • (17) After the onset of metamorphosis the quality of life was better in splenectomized than in non-splenectomized patients.
  • (18) Sister Cristina's moment of metamorphosis from singing nun into global internet sensation involves four judges listening to her with their backs turned, as the Voice format demands, then spinning around when the cheering of the audience becomes hysterical and they've heard enough to know they want this mystery singer on their team.
  • (19) These results are interpreted to indicate that both treatment of explants with T4 and elevation of endogenous levels of thyroid hormones during spontaneous metamorphosis increased the relative rates of synthesis of several identical proteins.
  • (20) Staining of tyrosine hydroxylase-immunoreactive fibers in the median eminence and pituitary was sparse or absent in premetamorphic tadpoles, but became increasingly more intense as metamorphosis progressed.

Pupal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a pupa, or the condition of a pupa.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some pupal motor neurons, however, show a marked non-linear response to depolarizing current injection (Fig.
  • (2) The four distinct neuroblasts proliferating in the early larval and late pupal stages are identical; they lie in the cortex above the calyces of the mushroom bodies (corpora pedunculata), proliferating over a period twice as long as that for the other neuroblasts.
  • (3) The P cytotype-like effects include suppression of snw germline hypermutability, snw somatic mosaicism, pupal lethality, and gonadal dysgenic sterility.
  • (4) As the period of exposure to the low temperatures increased, pupal survival decreased.
  • (5) Thus it appears that a cerebral neuropeptide specifically inhibiting JH I synthesis by the CA is present in Manduca on day 4 of the last larval instar, a time when the hemolymph titer of JH must drop to ensure the occurrence of pupal commitment.
  • (6) Genetic information on 25 enzyme polymorphisms in Drosophila subobscura, the location of corresponding genes, and cytological and genetic maps of the chromosomes are presented, as well as photographic maps of the salivary gland chromosomes in the third instar larva and white-case early pupal stages.
  • (7) Hook decoration with pig brain tubulin was used to assess the polarity of microtubules which mainly have 15 protofilaments in the transcellular bundles of late pupal Drosophila wing epidermal cells.
  • (8) The facilitation of eclosion by adult colony members appears to be an obligatory process in the development of this species; pupae denied the aid of adult workers during eclosion are unable to remove the pupal cuticle and rapidly succumb.
  • (9) Cautery off the midline produced asymmetries in the pattern of pupal commitment; when placed close to the midline, such cauteries prevented pupal commitment in the region "downstream" of the cautery, suggesting that a signal (diffusible or transducible) emanates from the midline.
  • (10) In the pupal brains, ecdysteroid receptors reappear in a new population of neurons.
  • (11) The lethal phase of various apparent null mutants was determined and found to occur mainly in the pupal stage.
  • (12) These proteins are later sequestered by the pre-pupal fat body.
  • (13) The effects of the insect growth regulator diflubenzuron (DFB) were observed on the larval-larval and larval-pupal moulting cycles of Tenebrio molitor, after treatment at ecdysis.
  • (14) Expression of the ets-2 gene occurs throughout development, but is highest during the embryonic and pupal stages.
  • (15) Following exposure, samples of flea eggs were processed for microscopic examination and seeded onto carpet swatches containing flea-rearing medium in order to assess egg hatch, and larval, pupal, and adult development.
  • (16) The velocity preferences of larval and pupal blackflies were studied experimentally by comparing the colonization of plastic strings placed in different velocity ranges; and also by investigating the simuliid microdistribution under natural conditions in the river.
  • (17) A comparison of the polytene NC-chromosomes with those from the pupal bristle forming cells reveals an unexpected discrepancy: while both chromosome complements exhibit a constant banding pattern it is not possible to homologize the two tissue specific patterns by identifying homologous band-sequences.
  • (18) To facilitate studies of the development and physiology of these receptor cells, we have produced primary in vitro cultures of cells dissociated from pupal male antennae.
  • (19) We studied the shortening of the Sarcophaga lectin mRNA, because this mRNA shows acute phase expression on injury of the larvae and programmed expression in the pupal stage.
  • (20) Utilizing this pupal system, the heat-responsive period for increasing crossing-over in the Drosophila genome has been defined for the X chromosome and a portion of chromosome 2.

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