(1) Reading Pitts's writing, and that of other diggers and delvers, I'm always struck by the disparity between the sketchy nature of the evidence they present and the way the narratives they construct on its basis seem to bear down on their imaginations – and ours as well.
Elver
Definition:
(n.) A young eel; a young conger or sea eel; -- called also elvene.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sample examined consisted of 417 specimens that were classified by stage (elver, young yellow eel, yellow eel and silver eel) and season of sampling.
(2) The structure of european eels' elvers population, drawn in its natural environment, shows a polymodal frequency distribution of individual weights.
(3) The ability of eels (Anguilla anguilla) to further desaturate and chain elongate linoleic acid, 18:2n-6, was studied by feeding diets containing either corn oil or a fish oil to groups of elvers for 12 wk and analyzing proportions of fatty acids in tissue lipids.
(4) At elver stage VI A1 the myosin isoforms pattern was characterized by at least two isoforms, FM3 and FM2.
(5) The morphology and ultrastructure of the lateral body integument of the leptocephalus, glass eel, pigmented elver, and adult stages of the American eel, Anguilla rostrata, were examined with light and electron microscopy.
(6) Proud to be a "provincial" writer, in his novel Kept (2006) Taylor begins with a bravura passage describing his home county: "A land of winding backroads and creaking carts and windmills, a land of flood, and eels and elvers and all that comes from water, a land of silence and subterfuge, of things not said but only whispered, where much is kept secret which would be better laid open to scrutiny."
(7) It is a myth,” said Hilal Elver, the UN’s special rapporteur on the right to food.
(8) A significant increase was also found in the weight of slow-growing elvers receiving diets containing 40 or 60 ppm T3 and held in the high water turnover system.
(9) Club cells, whose function is unknown, are most numerous in the glass eel and pigmented elver.
(10) Effect of 3,3',5-triiodo-L-thyronine (T3) on survival, growth and body composition (protein, fat and ash) of slow-growing (Anguilla rostrata L.) elvers was investigated.
(11) The proportion of arachidonic acid, 20:4n-6, present in polar lipids of elvers fed the diet containing corn oil increased from an initial value of 5% by weight to 12% by weight; the corresponding value for elvers given a diet containing fish oil, with little linoleic acid in it, was less than 4% by weight.
(12) Over the 12-wk period elvers given both dietary treatments increased in weight by fourfold.
(13) The coelom of elvers (Anguilla anguilla L.), eel0, is contenting glycoproteids, but these are not improvable in following stages of development.
(14) Eels swim back down these rivers to reach spawning grounds at sea and millions of elvers return in the spring.
(15) At least, rearing of the european eels' elvers is possible with a salt water (salinity : 32 p. 1000); this system permits suppress in totality fungi desease (saprolegnia).
(16) A virus belonging to Rhabdovirus anguilla was isolated from elvers imported from the FRG.
(17) This challenge has been exacerbated by a systematic denial, fuelled by the pesticide and agro-industry, of the magnitude of the damage inflicted by these chemicals, and aggressive, unethical marketing tactics.” Elver, who visited the Philippines, Paraguay, Morocco and Poland as part of producing the report, said: “The power of the corporations over governments and over the scientific community is extremely important.
(18) There were no significant differences between the total fat content of slow-growing elvers when compared to the total body fat of control elvers.
(19) They are not present in the pigmented elver and adult which inhabit estuaries and freshwater.
(20) In France, there are few researches carried out on the eel's elvers rearing.