Talk:Holometabolism

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Evolution of

In addition to how it works, information on the evolution of it would be extremely useful as it is a very interesting aspect of the phenomenon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tiktaalikbreeder (talk • contribs) 05:30, 5 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone clarify the sentence "Harvey suggested that the nutrients contained within the insect egg is so scarce that there was selection for the embryo to be forced to hatch before the completion of development"?

It seems unlikely that Harvey was talking about selection in 1651. ProboscideaRubber15 (talk) 00:44, 8 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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This article gives me what Holometabolism is (as would a dictionary), but what about the 'how'? How does it work? What, if any, are the known chemical/ biological processes?

If i've missed the page that explains these things I'd be grateful if someone in the know could make the link to it from this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.25.109.197 (talk) 15:31, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The page Metamorphosis#Insect_metamorphosis says that the insect pretty much digests itself and that the few cells remaining divide and turn into the new adult. How extensive the digestion is (is the brain / heart / etc. eaten too?) and how the regrowth happens (does a new embryo grow that eats the rest? or does it redevelop in place? if the latter, why does it bodyplan resemble some other juveniles so much - is embryonal development not essential to bodyplan development?) or how the whole thing managed to evolve to such a convoluted state (not that it reached a convoluted state per se - evolution has a habit to do that - but how it got there in this case) is not mentioned. 82.139.87.148 (talk) 08:42, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Expansion

I fixed some things and added some. This page still needs a lot of work including expansion.--FUNKAMATIC ~talk 22:27, 3 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

July 2010: advantage or not?

The article says: "This type of development gives the insects the unique advantage of being able to inhabit different ecological niches because of the morphological differences in the different stages of their life cycle". I fail to see how this is a "unique advantage". If life in one niche is problematic, can the insect switch to one of the other three niches to increase it chance of survival? I don't think so.

Survival depends on four different environmental niches, in succession. Whichever niche is scarcest determines success or failure of the insect to survive. How is this increasing its chances over an insect which needs just one type of environment? If it does, e.g. because seasonality makes on environment appear just as another disappears, exactly in synch with the insect's life, this needs some explanation.

Referring to this edit. Superp (talk) 13:03, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This probably does need clarification then. The advantage is that the adults aren't competing with the young.--FUNKAMATIC ~talk 08:21, 5 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Link to Imaginal disc?

This page doesn't really say much about how it actually works - shouldn't there at least be a reference to the imaginal discs? Perhaps as "see also"?--Cyberman TM (talk) 10:27, 2 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]