How To Use Autotomy In A Sentence
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The characteristics that best predicted autotomy - smaller body size or female gender - also correlated with a lower escape rate by the alternative escape tactic, struggling and pinching the predator.
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Most investigation into such an antipredatory benefit has focused on caudal autotomy in vertebrate taxa.
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Passive modes of defence are as many and varied as are the active; one of the strangest and most inexplicable of these is that known as spontaneous amputation, technically termed autotomy.
The Human Side of Animals
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Some crabs employ an aggressive form of autotomy.
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The nerve, however, is severed at the preformed autotomy breakage plane and the nerve stub retracts into the coxal stump.
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Slow-worms are like many other squamates in being able to drop the tail voluntarily by contracting muscles (this is known as caudal autotomy), but they do this more than is usual, with most individuals having autotomised their tails several times.
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Some crabs employ an aggressive form of autotomy.
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In the fiddler crab Uca pugilator, limbs that are lost due to injury or predation and as a result of the reflexive autotomy response, can be regenerated completely during a single intermolt cycle.
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Overriding of the molt-inducing stimulus of multiple limb autotomy in the mud crab Rhithropanopeus harrisii by parasitization with a rhizocephalan.
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They are also odd among salamanders in that some species can drop the tail as a predator-defence mechanism (properly called caudal autotomy), and in that some species have only four toes on the hindfeet.
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Iguanas are also capable of loosing their tail autotomy for defense and it will regenerate.
Iguana Project
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I could not assess at what point during the predation encounters the lizards employed autotomy.
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As in crustaceans, autotomy must be done before a critical period (about 3 days posthatching) so that there is sufficient time to regenerate the appendage before the next ecdysis.
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Through a process called autotomy, muscles can contract violently along the base of an appendage, breaking off the limb.
