(1) The participation of neural crest cells in development of the dermal skeleton is discussed by way of the repartition of the odontods within the pectoral fin.
(2) Since there is a body of literature indicating that preexposure to low levels of metals may increase tolerance during subsequent exposure, these experiments were designed to investigate the effects of preexposure to cadmium, using fin regeneration as the parameter of effect.
(3) Next year they will target 50 fin whales, 50 endangered humpbacks, and another 925 minkes.
(4) Electron microscopy discloses axons in the mesodermal mesenchyme and in the epidermis of the bud as early as stage I of the development of the pelvic fins.
(5) The fins are formed by a longitudinal tegument fold containing the same components as the remaining part of the tail tegument.
(6) The dorsal fin mesenchyme expresses vimentin at stage 26.
(7) In this situation one could fins concentrated not only the various stands of protolife necessary for the final act of biopoesis, but also perbiologically formed nutrients necessary as for the first eobionts.
(8) These data and independent scanning electron microscopy indicated that a resident population of predominantly Blastobacter bacteria was present as a biofilm on the supply-side cooling coil fins.
(9) The development of the vasculature of the pectoral fin in the Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, was studied by the dye-injection method.
(10) Behavioral arousal evoked by lightly touching the fish on the snout or over the eye resembled spontaneous arousal observed in the field and consisted of eye withdrawal, fin erection, and attempted swimming.
(11) This communication briefly reviews knowledge of the systemic disease caused by Crassicauda boopis in blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus), fin whales (B. physalus) and humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
(12) This year the whalers plan to kill more than 900 minke whales and about 50 fin whales, reports said.
(13) The fish of these groups completed translocation of the right eye to the left side and resorption of elongated dorsal fin rays.
(14) Glycosaminoglycans (GAG) are found primarily in the dorsal fin and in the ECM surrounding the notochord.
(15) By noon, the small fish market on shore is packed with black crows nibbling on hundreds of butchered fish heads, shark fins and long red swordfish tongues.
(16) Fixation included tines or fins (160), screw (40), flange (12), and other (16).
(17) In light of previous descriptions of Crassicauda infections in balaenopterids, this implied that C. boopis should at present be considered a renal parasite of fin whales, and perhaps other rorquals, throughout the world's oceans.
(18) The US-based group said it encountered an illegal shark finning operation run by a Costa Rican ship, the Varadero, and told the crew to stop and head to port to be prosecuted.
(19) We have used 14 restriction endonucleases to investigate the restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) of fin whales, 13 enzymes for sei whales, and 8 enzymes for the minke whale.
(20) The researchers estimated that global reported catches, unreported landings, discards and sharks caught and thrown back after their fins were cut off – a process known as finning – added up to 97 million fish caught in 2010.
Shark
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas.
(v. t. & i.) A rapacious, artful person; a sharper.
(v. t. & i.) Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark.
(v. t.) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
(v. i.) To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
(v. i.) To live by shifts and stratagems.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1986, Bill Heine erected a 25ft sculpture of a shark falling through the roof of his terraced house in Oxford .
(2) I had loan sharks turning up at the training ground when I was at Ipswich [2011-13].
(3) Although small amounts of AFP are synthesized by sharks in the liver, the greatest site of synthesis is actually the stomach, with smaller amounts synthesized in the intestinal mucosa; no synthesis was observed in the shark yolk sac.
(4) The findings can be summarized as follows: (1) The effective concentration of SDS for termination of shark tonic immobility (an immediate and fast response) was close to its critical micellar concentration in sea water (70 microM).
(5) Little, if anything, is known about shark litter sizes, making it very difficult to conserve this species.
(6) Normal shark plasma contains numerous natural antibodies reactive with a variety of antigens, including the target employed.
(7) 5) The SC-binding site is present on high molecular weight immunoglobulin in species as primitive as the nurse shark.
(8) Microfinance has clearly deviated from its original goal , it’s given rise to “its own breed of loan sharks,” as Yunus says.
(9) Sequence identities of sea turtle GH to other species of GH are 89% with chicken GH, 79% with rat GH, 68% with blue shark GH, 58% with eel GH, 59% with human GH, and 40% with a teleostean GH such as chum salmon.
(10) In contrast to dogfish sharks, stringrays with high spinal transections do not locomote.
(11) The spiracular organ is a tube (skate) or pouch (shark) with a single pore opening into the spiracle.
(12) Statistical tests were carried out on the results of chemical analysis for total mercury concentrations of replicate samples of muscle tissue of school shark Galeorhinus australis (Macleay) and gummy shark Mustelus antarcticus Guenther from six independent analytical laboratories.
(13) I would like it to always look as fresh as the day I made it, so part of the contract is: if the glass breaks, we mend it; if the tank gets dirty, we clean it; if the shark rots, we find you a new shark."
(14) That would eliminate a shark because they have cartilage, and on that basis it was likely one of the billfish."
(15) The perceived immunity of sharks to cancer has led to their slaughter to harvest the allegedly curative cartilage ; not only is this no good for sharks, it's no good for humans either.
(16) The shark GH isolated from pituitary glands by U. J. Lewis, R. N. P. Singh, B. K. Seavey, R. Lasker, and G. E. Pickford (1972, Fish.
(17) The rest, drowning in credit card debts – and remember the predatory interest rates some cards charge – or surrounded by loan sharks, will have to fend for themselves.
(18) There is a huge disconnect between the Wonga management's view of these services and the view from beyond its headquarters, where campaigners against the rapidly growing payday loan industry describe them as " immoral and unjust " and " legal loan sharks ".
(19) The N-terminal 19 amino-acid residues of IP-1 of trout CNS- and P0 of frog PNS myelin were sequenced and proved to be homologous on one hand with the P0 analogue of CNS of the shark, a cartilage fish, and on the other hand with P0 protein of PNS of birds and mammals.
(20) Labour's competition and consumer affairs spokeswoman, Stella Creasy, has been given special responsibility to lead a campaign against abuses by legal loan sharks, Miliband said.