Editing Developmental biology (section)

=== Metamorphosis ===
Developmental processes are very evident during the process of [[metamorphosis]]. This occurs in various types of animal such as insects, amphibians, some fish, and many marine invertebrates.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bishop |first=C. D. |last2=Erezyilmaz |first2=D. F. |last3=Flatt |first3=T. |last4=Georgiou |first4=C. D. |last5=Hadfield |first5=M. G. |last6=Heyland |first6=A. |last7=Hodin |first7=J. |last8=Jacobs |first8=M. W. |last9=Maslakova |first9=S. A. |last10=Pires |first10=A. |last11=Reitzel |first11=A. M. |last12=Santagata |first12=S. |last13=Tanaka |first13=K. |last14=Youson |first14=J. H. |date=2006-12-01 |title=What is metamorphosis? |url=https://academic.oup.com/icb/article-abstract/46/6/655/702188 |journal=Integrative and Comparative Biology |volume=46 |issue=6 |pages=655–661 |doi=10.1093/icb/icl004 |issn=1540-7063}}</ref> Well-known examples are seen in frogs, which usually hatch as a tadpole and metamorphoses to an adult frog, and certain insects which hatch as a larva and then become remodeled to the adult form during a pupal stage.

All the developmental processes listed above occur during metamorphosis. Examples that have been especially well studied include tail loss and other changes in the tadpole of the frog ''Xenopus'',<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Tata JR | year = 1996 | title = Amphibian metamorphosis: an exquisite model for hormonal regulation of postembryonic development in vertebrates | journal = Development, Growth and Differentiation| volume = 38 | issue = 3| pages = 223–231 | doi=10.1046/j.1440-169x.1996.t01-2-00001.x| pmid = 37281700 | s2cid = 84081060 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Brown DD, Cai L | title = Amphibian metamorphosis | journal = Developmental Biology | volume = 306 | issue = 1 | pages = 20–33 | date = June 2007 | pmid = 17449026 | pmc = 1945045 | doi = 10.1016/j.ydbio.2007.03.021 }}</ref> and the biology of the imaginal discs, which generate the adult body parts of the fly ''Drosophila melanogaster''.<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Cohen SM | date = 1993 | chapter = Imaginal Disc Development. | veditors = Bate M, Martinez-Arias M | title = The Development of Drosophila melanogaster | publisher = Cold Spring Harbor Press }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Maves L, Schubiger G | title = Transdetermination in Drosophila imaginal discs: a model for understanding pluripotency and selector gene maintenance | journal = Current Opinion in Genetics & Development | volume = 13 | issue = 5 | pages = 472–9 | date = October 2003 | pmid = 14550411 | doi = 10.1016/j.gde.2003.08.006 }}</ref>