(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.
Whitefish
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several species of Coregonus, a genus of excellent food fishes allied to the salmons. They inhabit the lakes of the colder parts of North America, Asia, and Europe. The largest and most important American species (C. clupeiformis) is abundant in the Great Lakes, and in other lakes farther north. Called also lake whitefish, and Oswego bass.
(n.) The menhaden.
(n.) The beluga, or white whale.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, in 1969-70, dieldrin levels in fish from Lake Huron exceeded the 0.3 ppm tolerance level set by Health and Welfare Canada or the Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in 5 percent of lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) and 10 percent of bloaters.
(2) The eight cases, six in Israel and two in New York City, resulted from the consumption of ribbetz or kapchunka, a freshwater whitefish soaked in brine and air-dried, that was processed commercially in New York.
(3) Hair cell polarization patterns were investigated on the sensory macule of the sacculus and lagena of the lake whitefish.
(4) Whitefish smaller than 150 mm did not harbour Crepidostomum specimens, but in bigger fish the prevalence and the mean intensity of infection increased to a certain limit as the fish got larger.
(5) Both patients consumed tainted kapchunka, a salted, ungutted whitefish.
(6) Lesions of tuberculosis in mountain whitefish (Prosopium williamsoni) were present in all visceral organs.
(7) However, for ringed seal and whitefish, TEQs obtained from the bioassay were higher than those from the chemical analysis.
(8) The manometric technique was employed to study the initiated oxidation of 7 samples of whitefish lipids of varying sites, to measure the kinetic parameters depending on the fatty acid composition and concentration of tocopherol.
(9) Heat destruction of types B and E Clostridium botulinum spores on whitefish chubs was observed to be dependent upon the relative humidity (RH) in the chamber in which fish were heated.
(10) PCB residues declined in lake trout and lake whitefish caught in Lake Superior between 1971 and 1975, but increased slightly in bloaters and white sucker (Catostomus commersoni).
(11) Whitefish received dose rates of 10 mGy y-1 from internal 226Ra and could have received comparable external dose rates from the sediments when they forage near the lake bottom, as they usually do.
(12) 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).
(13) arctic char, salmon, trout, whitefish), and this parasite has never been found in pike and perch, the usual intermediate hosts of D. latum.
(14) The main food allergens include cow's milk, eggs, nuts, shellfish and whitefish.
(15) Plasma from several salmonids (coho, chinook, rainbow trout, brook trout, arctic char, lake trout, and whitefish) as well as plasma from some nonsalmonids (sucker, bluegill) cross-reacted with the antisera; serial dilutions of plasma from rainbow trout, brook trout, chinook salmon, and coho salmon were parallel to the SS-25 standard curve.
(16) As I got started on a delicious whitefish and dill salad, he tucked into fried calamari with genuine enthusiasm.
(17) Bile metabolites in whitefish exposed in control areas confirmed low-level background pollution of the lake system due to chlorinated phenolics.
(18) All eight patients had eaten uneviscerated, salted, air-dried whitefish known as kapchunka.
(19) Tales of giant pike in Ullswater and 18th-century legends of 60lb trout are unverified, but the schelly, an Ice Age whitefish relic unique to just four lakes in Cumbria, grows to weigh about a kilo, but is seldom seen.
(20) Smoked whitefish chubs, containing from one to several hundred spores each, were examined for toxin content after storage at 5, 10, 15, and 28 C for as long as 32 days.