Relative tail length increases slightly in both sexes up to the time of sexual maturity, and then decreases slightly with advancing age.
In most reptiles growth in length and bulk continues after attainment of sexual maturity.
Some racers still retain the juvenal pattern faintly discernible after attainment of sexual maturity.
Rate of growth and, ultimately, size are influenced by the attainment of sexual maturity.
Because growth slows perceptibly at sexual maturity, it is possible, by examination of growth-rings, to estimate the age of puberty in mature specimens.
Attainment of sexual maturity, in the population studied, was more closely correlated with size than with age.
Now we find an account of a girl menstruating at four years of age, now an account of a three-year-old boy who exhibited many of the external signs of sexual maturity.
More especially do we find reports of cases in which the external manifestations of sexual maturity appeared in very early childhood.
The terms nubility, sexual maturity, nubile, and sexually mature, will be used with a similar signification.
The trichinae occupying the muscles are immature, and it is only after they are swallowed and the parasites are freed by digestion of the envelopes and pass into the intestine that they undergo development to sexual maturity.
From the stomach the worms gain access to the portal venous system, within which they undergo development to sexual maturity.
This fusion merely results in the attainment of sexual maturity by the two conjugating individuals.
If their second host is swallowed by the vertebrate host of the adult of the species, the encysted forms become free, and attain to sexual maturity.
Sexual maturity is not attained till two individuals unite permanently together.
When the bladder of the tadpole is developed, the young Polystomum passes down the alimentary tract to the cloaca, and thence to the urinary bladder, where it slowly attains to sexual maturity.
Some Isopods undergo a considerable change immediately before the attainment of sexual maturity.
It is, however, to be particularly remarked, that the development of the sexual peculiarities does not stand still on the attainment of sexual maturity.
As regards the development and migrations of the young worms, it is highly probable that the embryos enter the bodies of various fishes before they have acquired sexual maturity.
From the alimentary canal they pass to the blood-vessels, causing aneurism, and thence they seek to regain the intestinal canal, where they arrive at sexual maturity.
Having now satisfied myself that other new conditions were necessary to enable the larva to arrive at sexual maturity, I sought to transfer it to a glass tube filled with fresh saliva.
They are to be found in every stage of growth and development, from that of the intra-ovular embryo and free embryonic state up to sexual maturity.
Size at Sexual Maturity of the 10 Smallest Males of T.
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