1 Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland 2 School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom Specimens were ...

Ecdysis (moulting) is the defining character of Ecdysoza (arthropods, nematodes and related phyla). Despite superficial similarities, the signalling cascade underlying moulting differs between ...

Some people just accept this situation and hope for an improvement, while others look upon it as a strange disease. This seasonal decline in egg production occurs when birds go into a condition known ...

Open annotations (there are currently 0 annotations on this page). Animals such as insects, crabs and spiders belong to one of the most species-rich animal groups, called the arthropods. These animals ...

Moulting is a complex process, induced by diet manipulation, which results in renewal of reproductive system and subsequent better production. Conventionally, moulting has been practised by utilising ...

Researcher H. Mazzuco at the institute, Embrapa Suínos e Aves at Concórdia in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina and colleagues there and at Universidade Regional Integrada at Erechim in the state ...

Arthropod animals were moulting to make room for growth more than 500 million years ago, fossil evidence confirms. Scientists have long believed these creatures shed their hard, outer layers, just ...

An Ecological Character Description describes the ecological character of a wetland at the time of its listing as a Wetland of International Importance. Ecological Character Descriptions are a ...