Example sentences for: diapause

How can you use “diapause” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Many animals have evolved to survive seasonally recurring adverse conditions by entering a diapause stage.

  • Any putative diapause observed at 0-4°C should also be observed at higher temperatures.

  • The pea aphid ( Acyrthosiphon pisum : Hemiptera, Aphidoidea) ostensibly undergoes embryonic diapause as an over-wintering egg (figure 1).

  • Diapause typically involves as a period of developmental arrest during which an insect is resistant to environmental influences on developmental progression [ 2 ] . Sexually-produced A. pisum embryos do not demonstrate developmental arrest.

  • It is this lack of responsiveness that is a distinguishing characteristic of diapause [ 2 ] . In most animals diapause can occur only at a specific developmental stage, be it as an embryo, juvenile, or adult.


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