The present study assumes that each
molt and feather character is independent.
(1983) recorded spring
molt in late May and an indistinct second
molt in late summer and early autumn for S.
However,
molt increment was not significantly different in any treatment and the time to
molt was only significantly different in
molt 3 for the small cage size between the intermediate and low ration (Tukey's HSD P < 0.05).
The samples were categorized into the following
molt stages: pre-solo, -17 to -8 days, and -6 to -1 days (premolt); 2 to 5 days, 6 to 8 days, and 9 to 12 days (postmolt); and post-solo.
We located specimens of 1 complete and 1 apparently incomplete family group collected in July 1920 and July 1948, which supplemented information on wing
molt of chick-rearing Ancient Murrelets.
The linear mixed model is a generalization of the more familiar analysis of variance that allows for relaxation of 2 of its key assumptions: that the data points are all independent and that the variability within each of the experimental groups (here the
molt, nonmolt, and postmolt groups) is equal.
Animals that have undergone the third
molt have ovaries with only pre-vitellogenic oocytes.
The average duration of the
molt period was 52.6 [+ or -] 8.0 days (n = 7; Table 2).
We scored birds undergoing active
molt of flight feathers (including primary, secondary, or both) and birds undergoing
molt of body feathers as absent, trace, light, medium, or heavy.
An individual scorpion may accumulate a number of
molts over its lifetime; these
molts may not be distinguished easily from carcasses, especially after becoming fossils, thereby complicating interpretation of the scorpion fossil record.
The experiment lasted 12 weeks (Four weeks for the
molt period and 8 weeks for the post
molt lay period).