Metamorphosis, or a dramatic change in physical appearance, is a normal part of the life cycle of many animals, carried out to take advantage of different ecological niches. Yet the process of metamorphosis—how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly, or a tadpole transforms into a frog—is not well understood and has only been studied in a small number of species.
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