(1) Wildlife campaigners say they oppose the keeping of cetaceans in captivity because these animals tend to have poor health and suffer stress-related illnesses as a result.
(2) We offer anatomical evidence for a two layer arterio-venous countercurrent heat exchanger at the cetacean testis.
(3) The Institute of Cetacean Research, a quasi-governmental body that oversees the hunts, had hoped to use sales from the meat to cover the costs of the whaling fleet's expeditions, she said.
(4) At the same time, cetaceans are under threat from a variety of pressures including direct and indirect takes, pollution, and competition for habitat and prey.
(5) Gross compositional data for milk samples of Tursiops truncatus, Sousa plumbea and Delphinus delphis are presented and compared with existing cetacean milk values.
(6) "We are totally against [weakening the original resolution]," said Aimee Leslie, WWF's global cetacean and marine turtle manager.
(7) This unit, which characterizes all delphinids, shows stringent hybridization homology with a 1,740-bp repeat that is characteristic of all other cetacean families.
(8) The Institute of Cetacean Research blamed low demand on the complicated auction procedure and reluctance among food suppliers to attract criticism from anti-whaling groups such as Sea Shepherd .
(9) "For 2013, the catch limits allow the slaughter of 16,655 small cetaceans, but our analysis of available scientific data raises very serious concerns about the sustainability of these hunts."
(10) The lipid components of porpoise lipokeratinocytes appear to subserve not only barrier function in a hypertonic milieu, but also underlie the unique buoyancy, streamlining, insulatory, and caloric properties exhibited as adaptations to the cetacean habitat.
(11) Parasites from 5 species of cetaceans are reported along with their possible role as a contributing factor in stranding behavior.
(12) Pontoporia is less specialized in its shoulder anatomy that most delphinid cetaceans, and shares several characteristics with some mysticetes.
(13) The tandemly organized common cetacean component, which comprises a large portion of all cetacean--both odontocete (toothed whale) and mysticete (whalebone whale)--genomes has a repeat length of 1,760 bp and the three clones analysed showed a high degree of conformity.
(14) Seventeen specimens representing nine cetacean genera (Delphinus, Stenella, Tursiops, Grampus, Delphinapterus, Globicephala, Kogia, Mesoplodon, and Phocoena) were studied post mortem.
(15) The sequence difference between human and the whale and human and the cow was at the same level, indicating that the rate of evolution of the mtDNA rRNA genes is about the same in artiodactyls and cetaceans.
(16) As air breathers that are inseparably tied to the surface, cetaceans are highly trackable; they may thus help in the monitoring of habitat degradation and other long-term ecologic change.
(17) Our observations indicate that these RIAs can reliably detect serum FSH and LH from bottlenosed dolphins and represent the first quantitation of these hormones in cetaceans.
(18) We sequenced the mitochondrial DNA D-loop regions from two cetacean species and compared these with the published D-loop sequences of several other mammalian species, including one other cetacean.
(19) The predominant cell of cetacean epidermis, not found in normal terrestrial mammals, is a lipokeratinocyte, which elaborates not only keratin filaments, but also two types of lipid organelles: first, lamellar bodies, morphologically identical to those of terrestrial mammals, are elaborated in great abundance in all suprabasal epidermal layers, forming intercellular lipid bilayers in the stratum corneum interstices: and second, non-membrane-bounded droplets appear and persist in all epidermal layers.
(20) I do not believe that scientific studies of whales (or any cetacean species) must be lethal in order to be effective for management and conservation of the species.
Crustacean
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Crustacea; crustaceous.
(n.) An animal belonging to the class Crustacea.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is assumed that taurine increases the Ca2+ sensitivity of the force-generating myofilaments in mammalian hearts and crustacean slow skeletal muscle fibres.
(2) The implications of these findings for the development and physiological performance of the crustacean motor unit are discussed.
(3) The four hosts (Mollusc -- Crustacean -- Odonat -- Amphibian) are obligatory in the life cycle for it is impossible to infect the Insects directly with the cecariae or the frog (tadpoles as well as adults) with the mesocercariae.
(4) Using a spectrophotometric method, the kinetics of the crustacean muscle enzyme was compared to the acetylcholinesterase (AChE) on mammalian red blood cells and in the lobster ventral nerve cord.
(5) In crustacean nerve 12-14% of the phospholipids was in the form of alkyl ether phospholipids, which in the lobster were approximately half choline-containing and half ethanolamine-containing.
(6) Clearance of foreign materials from the hemocoel of decapod crustaceans involves several distinct kinds of cells.
(7) Electron microscopy has revealed that chitin from a representative selection of insect orders (plus one crustacean and one arachnid) is localized in crystallites about 2.8 nm across.
(8) The crustacean Na+-H+ antiporter therefore bears similarities to the vertebrate antiporter but is uniquely electrogenic.
(9) The highest levels were found in hepatopancreas from crustaceans.
(10) From the vantage point of my 10-centimetre porthole, I glimpsed life forms with outlines like blown glass occasionally drifting past our lights, while small crustaceans hovered around like flies, keeping pace with our descent.
(11) The significance of the terminal residues of the red pigment-concentrating hormone (RPCH: Glu-Leu-Asn-Phe-Ser-Pro-Gly-Trp-NH2) for its blanching effect on crustacean chromatophores has been investigated.
(12) You’d be hard pushed to find half a dozen fresh oysters at this great price.” Frozen food giant Iceland sparked lobster wars last month with what it claimed was the cheapest cooked crustacean in Britain.
(13) Foods causing most prominent symptoms among patients in group A included legumes, tree nuts, crustaceans, and fish.
(14) In the walking legs of decapod crustaceans, intersegmental reflex actions originate from various joint proprioceptors.
(15) Ovaries from the spider crab, Libinia emarginata L. were studied to learn more of vitellogenesis in crustaceans.
(16) However, some responses were inhibitory, the first such demonstration in aquatic crustaceans.
(17) These include insects, chelicerates, most crustaceans, annelids, priapulids, nematodes, and some sipunculids.
(18) The pentapeptide proctolin modulates the activity of the rhythmic pattern generators in the crustacean stomatogastric nervous system.
(19) Tilapia is an aquaponics staple, but crustaceans are also up for discussion.
(20) Ross said researchers have identified four new species of fish, a new type of starfish and several new species of crustaceans living in the deepwater reefs.