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What is metamorphosis?

Bishop, C. D. ; Erezyilmaz, D. F. ; Flatt, Thomas ; Georgiou, C. D. ; Hadfield, M. G. ; Heyland, A. ; Hodin, J. ; Jacobs, M. W. ; Malakova, S. A. ; Pires, A. ; Reitzel, A. M. ; Santagata, S. ; Tanaka, K. ; Youson, J. H.

In: Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2006, vol. 46, no. 6, p. 655-661

Metamorphosis (Gr. meta- “change” + morphe “form”) as a biological process is generally attributed to a subset of animals: most famously insects and amphibians, but some fish and many marine invertebrates as well. We held a symposium at the 2006 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) annual meeting in Orlando, FL (USA) to discuss metamorphosis in a comparative context....