(n.) A fresh-water fish of the genus Lota, having on the nose two very small barbels, and a larger one on the chin.
Example Sentences:
(1) The variation in levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (sigma PCBs), chlorobenzenes and chlorinated pesticides was studied in burbot (Lota lota) from eight remote locations along a northwesterly transect from northwestern Ontario to the Mackenzie River delta in Canada.
(2) The new species studied are the goldeye (Hiodon alosoides), the yellow eel (Anguilla anguilla), the archer fish (Toxotes jaculatrix), the goldfish (Carassius auratus) and the burbot (Lota lota).
(3) 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).
(4) The level of general lipids in the liver of burbot and stickleback infected with plerocercoids of D. latum and D. vogeli, respectively, decreases.
(5) A reconstructed separate fat image was used for studying the fat content of the liver of 12 dead and six living fasting burbots (Lota lota) in a 0.04 T magnetic field with olive oil as a reference.
(6) The burbots tolerated transport and repeated anesthesia and appear well suited for experimental ultrasound studies.
(7) Six live burbot fish (Lota lota) were examined on the 1st, 7th and 15th day after capture.
(8) Although the highest prevalences were found in adult burbot (Lota lota) in two of the areas, these fish are more likely a blind end in the life cycle of T. nodulosus in the present case.
(9) Intracellular recordings were made from morphologically identified hair cells in the lateral line canal organs of the burbot Lota lota.
(10) Simultaneous parasitism of plerocercoids of D. latum and Triaenophorus nodulosus in the liver of burbot causes especially great changes in the lipoid metabolism.
(11) The differences in fat concentration among the burbot livers were also clearly shown.
(12) The method was tested on a normal human thigh, on a human liver with confirmed fatty infiltration, and on the livers of four live burbots.
(13) They explain how burbot was the suspected food responsible for the auto-intoxication and how the X ray examination of the vertebrae of this fish allowed them to support the diagnosis of "tetrodonic" poisoning; the inquest did not allow to state precisely where the fish was caught.
(14) This role is exemplified through four cases: the Zermatt typhoid epidemics of 1963, a sanitary survey in Ouagadougou, the bioaccumulation of pollutants in the burbots of Swiss waters and the damages of earthwork in developing countries (roads and dams).
(15) The living burbot is an applicable test animal for studying the hepatic fat content with MR.
(16) The post-synaptic action of efferent fibres on lateral line organs in the burbot was investigated with extracellular electrodes.2.
(17) Cystobranchus mammillatus, a parasite of burbot, is widely distributed in the tributaries of Baikal.
(18) Significant declines in concentrations of PCB congeners, DDT isomers (sigma DDT), lindane, dieldrin, and mirex in burbot liver were found with increasing north latitude.
Turbot
Definition:
(n.) A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of flounders more or less related to the true turbots, as the American plaice, or summer flounder (see Flounder), the halibut, and the diamond flounder (Hypsopsetta guttulata) of California.
(n.) The filefish; -- so called in Bermuda.
(n.) The trigger fish.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, turbot fed [1-14C] 18:1omega9, 18:2omega6, or 18:3omega3 converted only small amounts of labeled fatty acids (3-15%) into fatty acids of longer chain length.
(2) Turbot populations have fallen by nearly a third in the past three decades.
(3) These parameters were also used to investigate the potential of V. anguillarum to amplify in the turbot intestinal tract.
(4) Place the turbot fillets on top and pour the white wine and fish stock on to the fillets.
(5) The anti-rainbow trout MT serum was shown to cross-react totally with MTs from plaice, flounder, turbot, perch, salmon and pike, but exhibited no reactivity towards MTs from human, mouse, rat, worm or crab.
(6) Of more than 400 bacteria isolated from turbot (Scophthalmus maximus), 89 have previously been shown to inhibit the in vitro growth of the fish pathogen Vibrio anguillarum.
(7) Infectivity trials showed that P. piscicida did not possess strict host specificity since the majority of the isolates were virulent for gilthead seabream, rainbow trout and turbot, with LD50 values ranging between 10(3) and 10(6) live cells.
(8) Sprinkle over the diced tomato and chopped parsley and pour over the turbot.
(9) This suggested that turbot, like trout, might be able to use the 18:3 omega 3 as a precursor of the omega 3 series.
(10) All the ECP samples were cytotoxic for fish and homoiothermic cell lines, possessed notable phospholipase activity and displayed haemolytic activity for sheep, salmon and turbot erythrocytes (but not for trout erythrocytes).
(11) Who could resist poached turbot with shrimp sauce, or a properly made Cornish pasty?
(12) At a state banquet of Scottish venison and turbot in Buckingham Palace, Xi repeated a theme he first raised in parliament, stressing Sino-British cooperation during the second world war as a mutually binding experience in which both nations fought side-by-side to uphold justice”, and highlighting the story of a British journalist and schoolteacher, George Hogg, who reported on “the atrocities committed by the Japanese atrocities”.
(13) By combining several methods, including enzyme electrophoresis, we show that this species is found only in turbot.
(14) The use of high-performance anion-exchange chromatography on a Mono Q column for isolation of a glycolipophosphoprotein, vitellogenin, from turbot plasma has been evaluated.
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(16) Biochemical characteristics of five rotavirus-like viruses isolated from striped bass (Morone saxatilis), turbot (Scophthalmus maximus), smelt (Osmerus mordax) and Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in North America and Europe were compared.
(17) In the eastern Mediterranean, the copepod Lepeophtheirus thompsoni Baird, 1850, has been reported to infest turbot, brill and flounder.
(18) During a three years survey, a total of 149 samples from 20 farms of rainbow trout, salmon and turbot were examined for the presence of virus with the purpose to study the viral infections affecting cultured fish and their incidence in the fishfarms of Northwestern Spain.
(19) In another experiment, a stenohaline seawater fish, the turbot, was adapted to diluted 5% saltwater and to fresh water.
(20) The indole formation in shrimps, herring, and turbot, held under different storage conditions, is compared with other common quality indices such as TBA-value and alpha-tocopherol content.