| While encysted, the glochidia will metamorphose, allowing the organs to develop more like an adult's organs. |
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| The tadpoles of some species, such as the bullfrog, take as long as two years to metamorphose into young frogs. |
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| Trilling frog tadpoles can metamorphose within 17 days, pumping the same hormone through their systems that induces premature births in humans. |
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| At the end of the larval stage, the animals drop down to the seafloor and metamorphose into adults. |
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| Embryonic coelomic structures have specific fates as the bilaterally symmetrical larvae metamorphose into radially symmetric adults. |
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| Like a creature of nature who can quickly adapt to her surroundings, I hibernate, metamorphose, undergo catharsis and finally become a butterfly. |
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| A Croesus who will metamorphose into a philanthropist prepared to take on the giants of industry. |
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| Then, after thirteen or seventeen years, the nymphs crawl to the surface and metamorphose into red-eyed adults. |
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| For these are times when we expect our politicians to metamorphose into statesmen. |
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| Most amphibians hatch as aquatic, swimming larvae, then metamorphose into terrestrial forms. |
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| Also see fishlike tadpoles that will later metamorphose into American bullfrogs, sprouting legs and losing their tails. |
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| In Rhinoderma darwinii, males retain the tadpoles in their vocal sacs until the young metamorphose. |
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| Ordinarily, between 6 and 11 percent of leopard frog tadpoles survive and metamorphose into adults. |
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| Three of 11 pools surveyed dried before any tadpoles could metamorphose. |
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| A woman who appears to be a downcast person who lives under bridges, turns out to be has a metamorphose into a princess and has a regal personage. |
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| Mr Thubron's tenacity, endurance, stamina and erudition metamorphose into exquisite prose. |
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| Glochidia must find an appropriate fish host whose body fluids provide nourishment until the glochidia metamorphose into juveniles. |
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| When larvae reach 55 to 65 mm long, they metamorphose into 'glass eels', a post-larval stage characterized by a lack of pigment. |
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| Efts must then metamorphose into amphibious adults to breed and complete the life cycle. |
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| The larvae are planktonic for 4 to 5 weeks after which time they metamorphose and settle on suitable substrates to begin their benthic life. |
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| When released, the parasitic glochidia attach to the fins or gills of an appropriate host fish until they metamorphose into juveniles. |
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| Aquatic larvae with gills metamorphose into terrestrial air-breathing efts, which live up to four years in moist terrestrial habitats. |
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| Eggs hatch into tadpoles, which graze on algae for about 9 to 12 weeks, until they are ready to metamorphose into adults. |
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| At the end of the pediveliger stage, mollusc larvae look for a solid substrate where they can settle and metamorphose into postlarvae. |
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| To achieve his ends, he did not hesitate to metamorphose into a ram, a horse, a bird, a bull, a dolphin, or even a river. |
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| The megalopas return in large swarms to the nearshore waters and estuaries in the spring, where they metamorphose into first instar juvenile crabs. |
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| Fertilized eggs develop into crawling planula larvae which settle on hermit crab-occupied shells, and subsequently metamorphose into primary polyps. |
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| These larvae will also metamorphose into adults sooner than their long-armed brethren and thus are vulnerable to planktonic predators for a shorter period of time. |
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| Larvae metamorphose spontaneously, regardless of where they are. |
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| The exercise is very popular with most students, and some once infected with the publication bug metamorphose into helpless, chronic letter writers. |
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| It's not glamorous, but I must say that if I had to metamorphose into an insect, I could have done far worse, such as a meal-worm or one of those creepy luna moths. |
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| Their underlying design is a spiraling vortex, in which undulating waters magically metamorphose into watered silk, velvet into vaporous cloud and firmament. |
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| Free-swimming tunicates metamorphose without attachment. |
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| As any historian of religions can tell you, saints and their attendants metamorphose in many different ways as they journey, with or without reindeer, from one location to another. |
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| Much more, it attempts to metamorphose industrial systems, by analogy with nature's ecological principles, so that they are better able to meet the challenges of sustainable development. |
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| Lines are already inclined to spiral and metamorphose, as in the example shown. |
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| Over these weeks, larvae can disperse great distances by water currents before they metamorphose and settle as small spat. |
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| Typically, when salinity levels are less than 6 ppt, larvae will not settle and metamorphose into spat. |
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| The silk farmers then heat the cocoons to kill them, leaving some to metamorphose into moths to breed the next generation of caterpillars. |
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| This axis helps regulate development, and the team found that at least half of the exposed tadpoles were unable to metamorphose into juvenile animals by the end of the experiment. |
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| Larvae can be buried in trenches before they metamorphose. |
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| The definitions are designed to ensure that club rights do not metamorphose into a product which could be confused with the UEFA Champions League. |
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| In the spring, larvae metamorphose into juvenile herring. |
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| In a nutshell, Mr Iperiotis became the victim of the internet's growing complexity, where individually benign systems all too easily metamorphose into a malicious bug. |
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| His Alternative Election Night demonstrated a crazed effort to metamorphose his traditional Newsnight-era eye roll into a masterclass of insult comedy. |
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