(a.) Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cestode infections include diphyllobothriasis transmitted by both fresh water fish and fish from brackish waters.
(2) This paper intends to be a contribution to the study of the reproduction of the Rivulus cylindraceus, living in brackish waters of canals close to the coasts.
(3) The term is used to refer to removing salt from both seawater and subterranean “brackish” water, as well as the treatment of waste water (aka sewerage) to make it drinkable.
(4) Rainbow trout held in brackish water (15 parts per thousand) were starved or fed different amounts of food.
(5) The not yet solved and serious uncertainities which need priority in the research are, according to the speaker, the control of the amebiasis of hatchery rainbow trout, the incysted icthyophtiriasis of various fresh water fishes, the rainbow trout myxosomiasis (Whirling disease), and the argulosis of eel reared in brackish water lagoons.
(6) Based on a comparison of the individual acute values for chinook salmon to the expected environmental concentrations, the margin of safety for boron was only 56 in fresh and 46 in brackish water.
(7) farauti 1 which was often found breeding within 100 m of the sea in either brackish or freshwater habitats.
(8) The incidence of some of these infections could be lowered if people took care to avoid eating undercooked seafood, swimming in brackish water, or sustaining lacerations in a marine environment.
(9) Vibrio cholerae, an autochthonous member of brackish water and estuarine bacterial communities, also attaches to crustacea, a significant factor in multiplication and survival of V. cholerae in nature.
(10) An outbreak of poisoning from ingestion of purple clam (Hiatula diphos), obtained from a brackish fish-culture pond, occurred in southern Taiwan in early January 1986.
(11) Nearly 1,400 of them will be sailing in the waters near Marina da Gloria in Guanabara Bay, swimming off Copacabana beach, and canoeing and rowing on the brackish waters of the Rodrigo de Freitas Lake.
(12) Larvae of the other 2 species were not found in brackish water which accords with previous laboratory observations of their lower salinity tolerance.
(13) and fecal coliforms in a cove receiving sewage treatment effluent and draining into a brackish lagoon were studied for 34 months with sampling at six stations.
(14) The meals consisted of Finnish freshwater fish (87%) (vendace, pike, perch and rainbow trout) and brackish water fish (13%) (Baltic herring) that provided about 1 g of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids per day (0.25 g eicosapentaenoic acid and 0.55 g docosahexaenoic acid).
(15) With the river, plain and brackish pools there was abundant food including prey animals, shellfish and edible plants.
(16) Rediae of 2 size groups were present in the digestive gland of the brackish-water snail, Cerithidea californica.
(17) Fresh water was running out, and the share of brackish water was rising.
(18) Its larvae, living in brackish waters of coastal lagoons, can devour those of Ceratopogonidae and at least young stages of those of Mosquitoes whose some halophilic species are dangerous vectors of diseases.
(19) On this occasion, this species was found in a pound of brackish water and abundant vegetation, known as La Redonda, located in the Morón municipality, Ciego de Avila.
(20) In general, young fish tested in fresh water were more sensitive to the individual elements and the two mixtures than were advanced fry tested in brackish water.
Stickleback
Definition:
(v. t.) Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling, and prickleback.
Example Sentences:
(1) Territorial sticklebacks were habituated to a male conspecific confined to a clear glass tube in a two stage experiment.
(2) The activity of the three enzymes was determined in the liver of ten-spined stickleback, a host of S. pungitii plerocercoids.
(3) Blood cells from Baltic salmon, Salmo salar, three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus, eel pout, Zoarces viviparus, crucian carp, Carassius carassius, African catfish, Clarias gariepinus, and reedfish, Calamoichthys calabaricus, were incubated with tritiated 11 beta-hydroxyandrostenedione (OHA) or 11-ketoandrostenedione (OA).
(4) The distribution of olfactory fibers in the brain of the three-spined stickleback was visualized by means of immunohistochemistry.
(5) At one extreme they are well developed (macrosmatic) such as in sharks and eels, and at the other they are poorly developed (microsmatic) such as in pike and stickleback.
(6) Stickleback Vg can be purified by con A-Sepharose chromatography.
(7) The costs of parental behaviour (fanning) were examined in male 1+ and 2+ three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) by comparing the loss of wet mass incurred by starved parental males during the egg care period to those incurred by starved non-parental males during this same period.
(8) Kidney cells of the marine stickleback Spinachia have been studied with histochemical methods for the demonstration of glycoconjugates.
(9) The effect of administration of homologous prolactin on fanning behavior, an important aspect of parental care in sticklebacks and many other teleost fish, was studied.
(10) In the corpuscles of Stannius of sticklebacks and eels two cell types are described of presumably endocrine nature.
(11) These branches are only occasionally observed in the sensory epithelium of the nine-spined stickleback.
(12) Tritiated androstenedione was in vitro aromatized to estrone and estradiol by the stickleback brain.
(13) These findings suggest the existence of a physiological positive feedback within the gonadal-pituitary axis of the male stickleback when stimulated into its breeding condition by long photoperiod.
(14) The findings strongly suggest that the male sex hormone may exert a double control on the renal cells in the stickleback, at both the cytoplasmic and nucleolar levels.
(15) The results obtained demonstrate that administration of cyproterone acetate to male sticklebacks has an inhibitory effect on renal target cells, apparently indistinguishable from the changes induced by lack of male sex hormone, and that this drug may be a valid substitute for castration in fish.
(16) Thus, the three-spined stickleback and the nine-spined stickleback show considerable differences in the organization of the sensory regions of the olfactory epithelium.
(17) Gasterosteus aculeatus was the most heavily infected fish with 4 larval cestode species; for two of them (D. ditremum and S. solidus) the three-spined stickleback was found to be the required fish intermediate host.
(18) Field observations at one site on brown trout (Salmo trutta) and three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) concurrently infected with mature Neoechinorhynchus rutili, together with the knowledge that large trout can be piscivorous in habit led to the proposition that the post-cyclic transmission of N. rutili may occur between these fish species.
(19) No significant mortality of caged stickleback fish occurred in these pools.
(20) The electrophoretic pattern of a sixth locus, mitochondrial NADP-dependent isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH), was found to be sexually dimorphic but otherwise invariant in sticklebacks.