(1) The relative importance of migrating eels and suspended particulate material (biotic and abiotic) as transporters of mirex from Lake Ontario to the St. Lawrence River Estuary is evaluated in the context of a possible adverse impact on the St. Lawrence beluga population.
(2) General cytological and ultrastructural features of cells found in the peripheral blood of three captive beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) are described.
(3) Bovine thyroid stimulating hormone administered to three beluga whales, Delphinapterus leucas, was effective in producing an increase in circulating levels of triiodothyronine and thyroxine.
(4) Normal values and ranges for 31 clinical hematology and serum chemistry tests are reported for the beluga or white whale (Delphinapterus leucas).
(5) The resulting audiogram showed hearing sensitivities below 64 kHz similar to those of belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) and Atlantic bottlenosed dolphins (Tursiops truncatus).
(6) One day a fellow expat's son, on seeing us pile sparkling mounds of tiny black eggs onto blinis, asked "Is that the beluga or the sevruga, cos I only like the sevruga."
(7) The guests order from the bar menu – beef sliders for £21, £770 for a 50g portion of beluga caviar.
(8) The discovery of Toxoplasma gondii in the marine mammals has led researchers to issue a public health warning to Inuit populations who eat beluga whalemeat in dried strips and stews.
(9) The pattern of PCB congeners found in beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) whale tissues is similar to the PCB pattern found in the St. Lawrence estuary MTZ biota.
(10) The heart of the beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) is described from the dissection of seven specimens.
(11) times per year, the most frequent being caribou (145, mean), beluga whale (74), hares (35), muskrat (26), whitefish (52), cisco (39), burbot (38), inconnu (37), Arctic charr (31), geese (44) ducks (19), ptamigan (18), cloudberries (22), cranberries (20) and blueberries (18).
(12) A similar decrease in sensitivity occurs at 32 kHz in the killer whale, at 50 kHz in the Amazon River dolphin, at 120 kHz in the beluga, at 140 kHz in the bottlenosed dolphin, and at 140 kHz in the harbor porpoise.
(13) During an echolocation-in-noise experiment we suspected that a beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) was using a surface-reflected path to maximize detection performance.
(14) Angela Kim, via GuardianWitness Serves 2 as a main dish, or 4 as a starter 200g black beluga lentils, rinsed 480ml water ¾ tsp salt 60g watercress 5 mint leaves, shredded 1 avocado, sliced For the dressing: Zest of ½ orange, plus 60ml orange juice (about 1 orange) Juice of 1 pink grapefruit (about 120ml) 2 tbsp lemon juice 1 tsp maple syrup or honey ½ garlic clove, germ (sprout) removed 80ml fruity olive oil 1 tsp salt 1 Combine the lentils, water and salt in a medium pan.
(15) Like the zoo, though, it has an enormous number of animals who don't belong anywhere near Illinois: a giant octopus, frogfish , beluga whales , a blue iguana , and, of course, sharks .
(16) The statement outlines how marine mammals are also found in abundance in the region including polar bears, narwhals, beluga whales and blowhead whales while migratory birds include snow geese, rough-legged hawks and gyro-falcons.
(17) The arteries and veins of the heart of the beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) are described from the dissection of nine specimens.
(18) Masked tonal thresholds were measured for a beluga whale at one noise level and 32 frequencies between 40 Hz and 115 kHz.
(19) Normal values such as these provide an important data base from which to detect diagnostically important changes in health status for belugas in a zoological setting.
(20) In beluga the relative duration of the period between the insemination and the appearance of the 1st cleavage furrow on the egg surface and the relative duration of the second half of embryogenesis (from the formation of heart rudiment till the hatching of single larvae) are somewhat less.
Huso
Definition:
(n.) A large European sturgeon (Acipenser huso), inhabiting the region of the Black and Caspian Seas. It sometimes attains a length of more than twelve feet, and a weight of two thousand pounds. Called also hausen.
(n.) The huchen, a large salmon.
Example Sentences:
(1) The morphology of a copepodid found on Huso huso near the delta of the Volga is described and illustrated.
(2) Soluble caviar (oocyte) proteins of four sturgeon species from the Caspian sea, Acipenser stellatus (Sevrouga), Acipenser guldenstadti (Ossietre), Acipenser nudiventris (Chipe) and Huso huso (Belouga) were studied by isoelectric focusing.
(3) The visual pigments of hybrid sturgeon (a cross between Acipenser ruthenus (male) and Huso huso (female) have been studied both by the methods of incomplete partial bleaching and HPLC analysis.
(4) This isotopic marking also enabled us to identify by starch electrophoresis marked proteins corresponding to transferrins in the serum of three other species of sturgeon: Acipenser guldenstadti, Acipenser nudiventris and Huso huso.
(5) Brain lipids of 4 species of sturgeons-Acipenser güldenstädti, A. stellatus, A. ruthenus and Huso huso-have been investigated.
(6) A number of histological and histochemical methods were used in order to detect different secretory cells in the hypophysis of young Huso huso L. x Acipenser ruthenus L., Chondrostei.
(7) Bile salts of the sturgeons Acipenser guldenstaedti Brandt, Acipenser stellatus Pall and Huso huso L. and of the paddlefish Polyodon spathula Walbaum are shown to be closely similar, consisting mainly of taurocholate with minor amounts of tauroallocholate and the monosulphates of bile alcohols.
(8) Lymphoid (lymphomyeloid) tissues in sturgeons (hybrid sturgeon, Huso huso X Acipenser ruthenus, and white Pacific sturgeon, A. transmontanus) were investigated by dissection, histology and transmission electron microscopy.
(9) By means of polyacrylamide gel disc-electrophoresis studies have been made on a serum proteins of the kaluga Huso dauricus and Amur sturgeon Asipenser schrencki.