(v. t.) To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird.
(v. t.) To cast, as the hair, skin, feathers, or the like; to shed.
(n.) The act or process of changing the feathers, hair, skin, etc.; molting.
(v. & n.) See Molt.
Example Sentences:
(1) In cultures of medium ML-15 containing a feeder layer of Dog Sarcoma (DS) cells larvae successfully moulted and showed a small but significant increase in length.
(2) Neither was the autumn moult, induced early in intact females by the change to a short photoperiod, advanced in ganglionectomized females, showing that the latter were unresponsive to the artificial modification of the photoperiod.
(3) Statistical analysis has shown the following: a) the growth inhibition, which is especially distinct in autumn-spring generation, takes place in the Ist instar larvae 1.76-2.20 mm long inhabiting the walls of the nasal cavity and concha (their average body length at hatching is 1.08 plus or minus 0.004 mm); the inhibition is associated with interpopulation relations and apparently does not depend on the date of its beginning and can last from 6 to 7 months; c) after the growth resumption the development continues uninterruptedly up to the moulting; the inhibition is also possible at the beginning of the 2nd instar and then the development proceeds without any intervals up to the complete maturation of larvae.
(4) A sharp rise in trehalose level of haemolymph is observed towards the end of 4th instar accompanied with sudden fall of the sugar in fat body during the same period, but after moulting blood trehalose abruptly decreases.
(5) The allatectomy in the 4th instar larvae of Rhodnius prolixus stops moulting in 93 per cent of the cases.
(6) The metathoracic musculature of the American cockroach Periplaneta americana was denervated by dissecting the nerves originating in the metathoracic ganglion on one side within 2 days after the last moult.
(7) Body-plumage of hens moulted at 11 degrees C was 25% heavier than of hens moulted at 29 degrees C. 3.
(8) One hour after infection, primary larvae appear in the body cavity where they moult immediately.
(9) In females, however, the number of NSG was relatively more than that in males in the Spring premigratory phase but fewer in the moulting phase.
(10) Food intake raises and decreases gradually between two moults.
(11) Trans-stadial transmission was demonstrated through one moult only, and transovarial transmission did not occur.
(12) This in vitro assay, based solely on the occurrence or absence of worm aggregation following the final moult in culture, proved very easy to interpret rapidly and accurately.
(13) A molecular modeling study has proposed that, when Ca2+ binds to the N-terminal triggering sites, helices B and C separate from the helices D and A, thereby exposing a crucial interaction site for troponin I, the inhibitory subunit of troponin [Herzberg, O., Moult, J., and James, M. N. G. (1986) J. Biol.
(14) Three developmental stages were investigated--1 day, 14 days, and 6 weeks after adult moulting.
(15) 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.
(16) Virus persisted transstadially as shown by the presence of an average of 10(3.4) PFU in newly moulted adults.
(17) Cauterization of the pars intercerebralis after the critical period of the prothoracic gland activity does not affect moulting in any way.
(18) In normal, non-expanding toad epidermis more cells are produced than needed to replace cells lost by moulting.
(19) Variation in temperature (4-40 degrees C) had a significant effect on moulting rate of the ticks and transmission of theilerial parasites from nymphs to resultant adults.
(20) Thymus enlargement in both young and adults has been found to be accompanied by marked erythropoietic activity within the gland, and it is suggested that this activity is related to an increased demand for erythrocytes which may occur during moult and breeding.
Poult
Definition:
(n.) A young chicken, partridge, grouse, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) No histological changes in the intestines were observed in the fasted poults whereas definite lesions were observed in the BCDCV-inoculated poults.
(2) Poults 3 weeks and older developed temporary tracheal resistance to intranasal challenge following inoculation of either Artvax vaccine or formalin-inactivated Bordetella avium bacterin by the intranasal and eyedrop routes.
(3) Some foot-pad dermatitis was still observed in poults fed levels of methionine more than adequate to meet the requirements for optimum growth and feed efficiency.
(4) The efficacy of Linco-Spectin (LS) water medication was determined against Mycoplasma meleagridis (MM) airsacculitis in turkey poults under controlled conditions.
(5) Two-day-old poults were fed diets containing no added fat [44.6% starch, 2.2% ether extract by weight (HC)], 10% tallow (T), or 10% corn oil [(CO) 29.0% starch, 10.9% ether extract].
(6) Titers of the poults were monitored for 7 weeks, and poults were challenged by exposure to infected poults at 1, 7, 14, and 21 days post-hatch.
(7) Acute phase changes in embryo serum zinc and copper as well as liver zinc concentrations were similar to those in poults.
(8) Four feeding trials were conducted to determine the performance of turkey poults when these compounds were used singly or in combination with 100 ppm of furazolidone.
(9) No ELISA antibodies to TRT virus developed in the sera of these poults but they were as resistant to virulent virus challenge 21 days later as vaccinated groups which were not cyclophosphamide-treated but produced humoral antibodies.
(10) Plasma CS levels of tom and hen poults were similar.
(11) These results suggest, under the conditions of this experiment, the turkey poults vaccinated at 35 days of age and poults vaccinated at 20 days of age experienced an excellent immunological respone by 5 weeks of age.
(12) No differences were observed between infected and uninfected turkey poults in other serum chemistries.
(13) Results indicate that age of poults and method of vaccination may be important factors in the development of acquired resistance to fowl cholera when aflatoxin is present in the diet.
(14) A small gram-negative motile bacillus was isolated from laboratory poults affected by acute respiratory disease (rhinotracheitis) of turkeys.
(15) Subsequently, 89 of these 306 heterozygous bronze hens were inseminated with semen from BSW (cc) males and down color of embryos and poults from fertilized eggs recorded.
(16) The poults were given an oral spectinomycin plus vitamin treatment at the hatchery but were not fed before the start of the experiment.
(17) Thirty-three intestinal samples from 10-to-21-day-old diarrheic turkey poults were examined for the presence of enteric viruses by electron microscopy.
(18) Poults which were infected with M meleagridis but which failed to develop either of these conditions had more normal serum protein characteristics.
(19) Six hours post-hatch, large white turkey poults were inoculated intranasally with 5 x 10(7) cells of the W isolate of Bordetella avium.
(20) was used, many poults were hatched from eggs produced by hens in the four treated groups.