(1) A shorter period of vitellus resorption (50 vs 65 day) was observed in (n-3)-deficient alevins as compared to controls.
(2) The rheotactism which appears as soon as the eyes are pigmented has been used for the presentation of lures, thus allowing the study of the stimuli releasing the feeding activity and the breeding of 913 individuals up to the alevin stage.
(3) In order to examine the role of thyroid hormones during salmonid development, techniques were developed for quantitative extraction of thyroxine from eggs, whole embryos, and alevins of chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) at various stages of development.
(4) In general, juvenile life stages of the three species tested were more sensitive to these inorganics than the alevin life stage.
(5) Among juveniles, no single species was consistently more sensitive to the inorganics than another; among alevins, Arctic grayling were generally more sensitive than coho salmon and rainbow trout.
(6) Frozen eggs, embryos, alevins, or fry were homogenized in ice-cold methanol.
(7) For Arctic grayling, sensitivity to all four inorganics was significantly greater in swim-up fry from Alaska than in alevins from Montana, and sensitivity to arsenic and copper was significantly greater in juveniles from Alaska than in juveniles from Montana.
(8) DNA cytofluorometric analysis of nuclei suspensions obtained from trout white myotomal muscle during different developmental stages (eleutherembyronic; alevin; yearling and adult) showed a consistently low S-cytometric phase during all stage in which myofibres of small diameters were present.
(9) Incubation of eggs at low pH caused a lower median survival, delayed hatching, higher alevin mortality and reduced the efficiency of yolk conversion to tissue of yolk-sac alevins.
(10) Nonadditive genetic variance accounted for more of the variation in fry size characters than in those of alevins.
(11) Large numbers of AChE cells were present in freshwater living alevins, in all stages of presmolts (n = 307-544), and in adult spawners (n = 696-1774), whereas seawater-living postmolts displayed a total lack of labeled cells.
(12) The resulting embryos and alevins were incubated at constant water temperatures of 4, 8, and 16 degrees C for pink salmon and 3, 8, and 15 degrees C for chum salmon.
(13) Polyamine composition of eggs and alevins from cultured and wild Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, was compared during early development.
(14) The mean family survival of pure Harrison alevins (13.0%) was significantly lower than that of Capilano alevins (64.1%).
(15) The dense populations of AChE-stained cells in the alevins were all situated in the caudal part of the pineal end-vesicle.
(16) Mortality of an unknown etiology occurs after hatching and before emergence among Harrison River chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) alevins incubated in the Chehalis River Hatchery, British Columbia.
(17) Atlantic salmon embryos and alevins can synthesize polyamines which could be associated with their growth and development.
(18) The most sensitive stages of development during chronic or episodic exposure to low pH were early embryonic development and newly-hatched alevins.
(19) Alevin survival by family ranged from 0 to 100%, with a mean value of 35.2%.
(20) Inter- and intra-stock genetic variation for alevin survival and time to death was investigated at Chehalis Hatchery in factorial crosses among chinook salmon from the Harrison and Capilano rivers.
Levin
Definition:
(n.) Lightning.
Example Sentences:
(1) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
(2) Levin and Merkley said Wall Street has successfully managed to weaken the rule.
(3) As Bernard Levin noted in 1977 when she was playing Lady Macbeth and Lady Plyant in Congreve's The Double Dealer at the National: "She is tiny.
(4) The clashes between the moralistic Levin and his friend Oblonsky, sometimes affectionate, sometimes angry, and Levin's linkage of modernity to Oblonsky's attitudes – that social mores are to be worked around and subordinated to pleasure, that families are base camps for off-base nooky – undermine one possible reading of Anna Karenina , in which Anna is a martyr in the struggle for the modern sexual freedoms that we take for granted, taken down by the hypocritical conservative elite to which she, her lover and her husband belong.
(5) Undeterred, Levin launched TMZ.com modestly in December 2005 as "a Hollywood and entertainment-centric news site".
(6) The endogenous opioid peptides, for example, primarily regulate LHRH pulse amplitude (Karahalios and Levine, 1988), a finding that is consistent with the idea that these peptides exert direct postsynaptic or presynaptic inhibition (Drouva et al., 1981).
(7) Levin, and Risch and Tibshirani, derive efficient tests for the incomplete triplet case by the methods of maximum likelihood estimator (Wald) tests and likelihood ratio tests, respectively.
(8) Peter Moffat (Criminal Justice) I had a meeting at the BBC yesterday with Ben Stephenson, Kate Harwood, Manda Levin and Hilary Salmon.
(9) The overlap between narcolepsy and the Kleine-Levin syndrome is confirmed.
(10) Samuel Albert Levine was a key figure in modern cardiology in the United States.
(11) Photograph: Sam Levin for the Guardian Cliven said he suspected that his imprisoned son felt pressured to urge the remaining occupiers to go home.
(12) A modified Levine, Voss, Redmond, and Zolov minor determinant mixture (MDM) reagent and the components (5R,6R)-benzyl-D-penicilloate and (5R)-benzyl-D-penilloate have been found to be highly labile in aqueous solution, giving rise to a mixture of diastereoisomers.
(13) Yet Tolstoy doesn't spare Levin, the character with whom he is most in sympathy.
(14) Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who chairs the Senate armed services committee, told the Detroit News on Monday that he was not sure air strikes "make sense," saying that "we ought to be mighty damn cautious" before launching them.
(15) Two cases of Kleine-Levin syndrome are described in which the onset of symptoms was temporally related to head injury.
(16) The Yankees president, Randy Levine, and Cashman had a conference call with Tim Lentych, the head athletic trainer at the player development complex in Tampa; Rodriguez; and Jordan Siev, co-head of the US commercial litigation group at Reed Smith.
(17) (1980) Cell 21, 347-355) and the inhibition of this differentiation by butyrate (Levine R. A., Campisi, J., Wang, S.-Y., and Gudas, L. J.
(18) We have shown that sodium butyrate blocks expression of the differentiated phenotype if added within 8 h of retinoic acid and cyclic AMP (Levine et al., Dev.
(19) But the symbolism of a hate crime is important to affected groups and can help indicate trends to encourage legislators to address a wider problem, Levin explained.
(20) A UV-inducible, damage-specific DNA-binding (DDB) protein with high affinity for double-stranded UV-irradiated DNA has been identified recently in monkey kidney (CV-1) cells (Hirschfeld, S., Levine, A. S., Ozato, K., and Protić, M. (1990) Mol.