  The coupling between angular (twisting) and longitudinal modulations arising
near the ordering temperature of noncentrosymmetric ferromagnets strongly
influences the structure of skyrmion states and their evolution in an applied
magnetic field. In the precursor states of cubic helimagnets, a continuous
transformation of skyrmion lattices into the saturated state is replaced by the
first-order processes accompanied by the formation of multidomain states.
Recently the effects imposed by dominant longitudinal modulations have been
reported in bulk MnSi and FeGe. Similar phenomena can be observed in the
precursor regions of cubic helimagnet epilayers and in easy-plane chiral
ferromagnets (e.g. in the hexagonal helimagnet CrNb3S6).
