MorphBank Attribute Description

Attribute Name: developmentalStage


Element Type: Character
Element Size: 128
Required: No
Foreign Key: No Table: N/A
Values List: N/A
Data Source: User input
Validation Rules: N/A
Description: The developmental stage of the specimen. For insects, relevant values might be “egg”, “larva”, “pupa” and “adult”, or “egg”, “first-instar larva”, “second-instar larva”, “prepupa” etc. For other organisms other expressions are used to denote the developmental stage of the specimen.