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- Ecdysis abstract "Ecdysis (from Ancient Greek: ἐκδύω, ekduo, to take off, strip off) is the moulting of the cuticula in many invertebrates. This process of moulting is the defining feature of the clade Ecdysozoa, comprising the arthropods, nematodes, velvet worms, horsehair worms, tardigrades, and Cephalorhyncha. Since the cuticula of these animals often forms an inelastic exoskeleton, it is shed during growth and a new, larger covering is formed. The remnants of the old, empty exoskeleton are called exuviae.After moulting, an arthropod is described as teneral, a callow; it is "fresh", pale and soft-bodied. Within one or two hours, the cuticle hardens and darkens following a tanning process similar to that of the tanning of leather. It is during this short phase that the animal expands, since growth is otherwise constrained by the rigidity of the exoskeleton. Growth of the limbs and other parts normally covered by hard exoskeleton is achieved by transfer of body fluids from soft parts before the new skin hardens. A spider with a small abdomen may be undernourished but more probably has recently undergone ecdysis. Some arthropods however, especially large insects with tracheal respiration, expand their new exoskeleton by swallowing or otherwise taking in air. The maturation of the structure and colouration of the new exoskeleton might take days or weeks in a long-lived insect; this can raise problems in trying to identify the species when a specimen has just recently undergone ecdysis. Ecdysis may also enable damaged tissue and missing limbs to be regenerated or substantially re-formed, although this may only be complete over a series of moults, the stump being a little larger with each moult until it is of normal, or near normal size again.".
- Ecdysis thumbnail Callinectes_sapidus.jpg?width=300.
- Ecdysis wikiPageID "10340".
- Ecdysis wikiPageRevisionID "586395091".
- Ecdysis align "center".
- Ecdysis alt "After the separation, moulting fluid is secreted into the space between the old cuticle and the epidermis ; this contains inactive enzymes which are activated only after the new epicuticle is secreted.".
- Ecdysis alt "The lower regions of the old cuticle are then digested by the enzymes and subsequently absorbed. The process of moulting can start.".
- Ecdysis alt "The process of moulting in insects begins with the separation of the cuticle from the underlying epidermal cells.".
- Ecdysis direction "horizontal".
- Ecdysis hasPhotoCollection Ecdysis.
- Ecdysis header "Physiology of ecdysis".
- Ecdysis image "The-arthropods-moulting-1.gif".
- Ecdysis image "The-arthropods-moulting-2.gif".
- Ecdysis image "The-arthropods-moulting-3.gif".
- Ecdysis width "240".
- Ecdysis subject Category:Developmental_biology.
- Ecdysis subject Category:Ethology.
- Ecdysis subject Category:Invertebrate_anatomy.
- Ecdysis comment "Ecdysis (from Ancient Greek: ἐκδύω, ekduo, to take off, strip off) is the moulting of the cuticula in many invertebrates. This process of moulting is the defining feature of the clade Ecdysozoa, comprising the arthropods, nematodes, velvet worms, horsehair worms, tardigrades, and Cephalorhyncha. Since the cuticula of these animals often forms an inelastic exoskeleton, it is shed during growth and a new, larger covering is formed.".
- Ecdysis label "Ecdise".
- Ecdysis label "Ecdysis".
- Ecdysis label "Häutung".
- Ecdysis label "Mue des arthropodes".
- Ecdysis label "Vervelling".
- Ecdysis label "Wylinka".
- Ecdysis label "脱皮".
- Ecdysis sameAs Svlékání.
- Ecdysis sameAs Häutung.
- Ecdysis sameAs Έκδυση.
- Ecdysis sameAs Mue_des_arthropodes.
- Ecdysis sameAs Ekdisis.
- Ecdysis sameAs 脱皮.
- Ecdysis sameAs Vervelling.
- Ecdysis sameAs Wylinka.
- Ecdysis sameAs Ecdise.
- Ecdysis sameAs m.02s__.
- Ecdysis sameAs Q13389887.
- Ecdysis sameAs Q13389887.
- Ecdysis wasDerivedFrom Ecdysis?oldid=586395091.
- Ecdysis depiction Callinectes_sapidus.jpg.
- Ecdysis isPrimaryTopicOf Ecdysis.