Chasing the Animal: Desire for Metamorphosis in <i>The Birds</i> by Tarjei Vesaas and <i>The Cheetahs</i> by Finn Carling by Sara Culeddu

“…The analysis is focused on two norwegian novels from the twentieth century: Fuglane (The Birds) by Tarjei Vesaas (1957) and Gepardene (The Cheetahs) by Finn Carling. …”
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Migration and Metamorphosis in Marie Ndiaye's Trois Femmes Puissantes by Deborah B. Gaensbauer

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Bird and Animal Anatomy / by Greathouse, Ericka, author 648699, Fiore, Jerlene, author 648193

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Stress and serial adult metamorphosis: Multiple roles for the stress axis in socially regulated sex change by Tessa K Solomon-Lane, Erica J Crespi, Erica J Crespi, Matthew Scott Grober, Matthew Scott Grober

“…The hypothalamic-pituitary-interrenal axis (HPI, homologous to HP-adrenal axis in mammals and birds) has been hypothesized to play a mechanistic role linking status to sex change. …”
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Analysis of Transtextual relation between The Conference of the Birds by Peter Sis and Attar's Mantiq al-Tair by Sarah Zabihi, Ahmad Razi

“…Implicitly, the essence of Mantiq al-Tair is reflected in the main and general plot of The Conference of the Birds by Sis. From the beginning, through paratexts and references to Attar's metamorphosis to Hudhud, Sis acknowledges that this work is a rewriting of Mantiq al-Tair and with these references he avoids using quotes in the text. …”
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Anomie and Isolation: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Ghost in the Shell, Serial Experiments Lain, and Japanese Consensus Society by Elmo Gonzaga

“…Transcending their isolation, they likewise strive to develop bonds with others through reciprocal communication.Particularly because these texts are characterized by elements of the fantastic and narratives of metamorphosis, they can also be seen as allegories of subversion against Japanese consensus society and its ideology of progress.…”
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Hatching the cleidoic egg: the role of thyroid hormones by Bert eDe Groef, Bert eDe Groef, Sylvia V.H. Grommen, Sylvia V.H. Grommen, Veerle M. Darras

“…A major life stage transition in birds and other oviparous sauropsids is the hatching of the cleidoic egg. …”
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L’autre scène dans The Three Birds de Joanna Laurens (2000) : enjeux dramatiques de la réécriture d’un mythe by Solange Ayache

“…Joanna Laurens’ first play The Three Birds (2000) is a retelling of the Greek myth of Philomela in which language undergoes a poetic treatment unprecedented on the contemporary British stage. …”
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Noua … corpora: New Bodies and Gendered Patterns in the Metamorphoses by Alison Sharrock

“…In considering the poem’s main destinations, we can see distinct patterns of outcomes: heavily gender-based for trees, gender-significant (albeit not simply determined) for watercourses, gods, and stones, and gender-equal in the case of birds and other animals. The article tackles some of the unconscious gender preconceptions at play, and explores the enduring significance of gender for the Metamorphoses within the various outcomes of those who become victims, or occasionally beneficiaries, of Ovidian metamorphosis.…”
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Céad Míle Fáilte – How the Land of a Thousand Welcomes Coped with Mass Immigration by Daniela Nicoletti Fávero

“…The Irish short story, highlighted in the national literary production and celebrated for reflecting the social upheavals that Ireland has gone through, is nowadays configured as the genre to echo an environment in metamorphosis. This article, derived from my doctoral research, highlights the relationship between the short story and the representation of identities involved in immigration. …”
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First record of Philornis glaucinis Dodge & Aitken, 1968 (Diptera: Muscidae) in Thalurania glaucopis Gmelin, 1788 (Aves: Trochilidae) by Hermes Ribeiro Luz, Rafaela Dias Antonini, Michele Silva Rodrigues, André Felippe Nunes-Freitas, Renata da Silva Mello

“…Only seven larvae completed metamorphosis and reached the adult stage, being identified as Philornis glaucinis. …”
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The influence on Mandelstam by Goethe: “The Octaves” as “The Poems on the Cognition” by Sergey A. Kornienko

“…Goethe as well as with his sciencerelated poetry, in particular with “Metamorphosis of Plants”. Imaginative homology of both poets, convergence of their plots and trope functions are demonstrated. …”
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Qualcosa di musica. Sublimazione? by Daniele Goldoni

“…A philosophical concept like that of ‘metamorphosis’ could do better justice to – and better fit with – the flux of the manifold interchanges of energies in life.…”
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<i>Yoginī</i> e Streghe: luoghi isolati, animali selvatici, figure femminili di confine by Elisabetta Cangelosi

“…The analysis compares a group of tantric semi-deities, called Yogini, with witches: they are both confined in a border condition under the religious and social point of view since they are considered dangerous as well as respectful; they fly (sometimes after a metamorphosis in wild and dangerous birds like), they dance in circle, they turn into terrestrial animals (like snakes and toads) they prefer isolated places and trees. …”
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siberian-style conversion by Konstantin Lidin

“…How everything is changing! What once was bird Now lies a page of words; Thought was once a simple bloom; on bull’s slow feet A march did poems beat. …”
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Classical past in Baudelaire's Le cygne: a reconsideration by Marko Marinčič

“…Ithas been seen that Horace's description of the living poet's metamorphosis into a swan (Carmina 2.20) is a much more obvious classical reference as far as the title character is concerned, and the mention of »l'homme d'Ovide« seems to point the reader to Ovid's narrative of the creation of man in the Metamorphoses (1.76-86) as a model e contrario for the degradation of the divine bird in Baudelaire's poem. …”
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Acute mortality in California tiger salamander (Ambystoma californiense) and Santa Cruz long-toed salamander (Ambystoma macrodactylum croceum) caused by Ribeiroia ondatrae (Class:... by Saskia Keller, Constance L. Roderick, Christopher Caris, Daniel A. Grear, Rebecca A. Cole

“…We suggest sustained seasonal high-water levels due to active habitat management along with several years of increased rainfall led to increased bird visitation, increased over-wintering of snails, and prolonged salamander metamorphosis, resulting in a confluence of conditions and cascading of host-parasite dynamics to create a hyper-parasitized state.…”
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Cuento popular y rito iniciático. El pájaro azul en Mme d’Aulnoy y en Juan Valera by Carlota Vicens Pujol

“…This paper studies two fairy tales, L’Oiseau bleu by Mme d’Aulnoy (17th century) and El pájaro verde by Juan Valera (19th century) with the aim of analyzing the different versions of a traditional narrative topic: the blue bird. We focus especially on the initiation rite and its successive phases: metamorphosis, injury, disguise, loss, fate and chance. …”
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Differential Regulation of the Expression of the Two Thyrotropin Beta Subunit Paralogs by Salmon Pituitary Cells In Vitro by Mitchell Stewart Fleming, Mitchell Stewart Fleming, Gersende Maugars, Patrick Martin, Sylvie Dufour, Karine Rousseau

“…It suggests that IGF1 may be involved in triggering the expression peak of the tshβb paralog at smoltification, thus representing a potential internal signal in the link between body growth and smoltification metamorphosis.…”
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Hybrid beasts of the Nordic Bronze Age by Laura Ahlqvist, Helle Vandkilde

“…These hybrids are composed of body parts from particular animals – including bull, bird, snake, horse and human – which entangle with particular objects or images. …”
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