… by inexpensive commercial packages – ie, … packages and the free availability of specialized
software. The PAST software program (Hammer et al. 2009) is one such a free package …

… instar of a larva based on its individual head capsule width and the size distribution of the last
larval instar. The … used thanks to the R package CINID that we developed for that purpose. …

… was to compare three approaches for instar separation in D. pini … Two criteria were used to
assess whether the resulting instar … For proper instar separation, both criteria of Brooks-Dyar’s …

… on relative instar-specific mass increments (RMI) and end-of-instar GD. We calculated
RMI as the ratio of the peak mass of the focal instar to the initial mass of the same instar. For …

… instar as a response variable and adult and larval body sizes as explanatory variables, can
be used to determine the instar … been established to identify the instar of field-collected insect …

Package ‘instaR’ … BugReports https://github.com/pablobarbera/instaR/issues … This
function relies on the httr package to create the OAuth token, and is a simplified version of …

… The Canberra distance yielded reliable instar grouping, which was consistent with the first
instar, as characterized by egg bursters and prepupae with dark histoblasts. Females and …

… Survival from instar to instar was measured for an endangered oligophagous butterfly, …
to the second instar, from the second to the third instar, and from the third to the fourth instar. …

… instar. Thus, samples from a given population of insects are a mixture of several normal
distributions, one for each instar… observations, using the function provided in the mclust package. …

… instar … instar identification bias. The methodology provided estimations (mean, standard
error and standard deviation) of S. watsoni larval head capsule width for preliminary larval instar …