(a.) Of or pertaining to the ocean; -- applied especially to animals that live at the surface of the ocean, away from the coast.
Example Sentences:
(1) Operated by the North Atlantic Fishing Company (NAFC), based in Caterham, Surrey, it is one of 34 giant freezer vessels that regularly work the west African coast as part of the Pelagic Freezer Association (PFA) , which represents nine European trawler owners.
(2) The involvement of active inorganic ion transport and Na+,K(+)-ATPase in oocyte hydration in Atlantic croaker (Micropogonias undulatus) and spotted seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus), marine teleosts which spawn pelagic eggs, was investigated by examining changes in the inorganic ion content of ovarian follicles containing mainly oocytes, by performing in vitro incubations of the follicles with ion channel blockers, and by assaying membrane preparations of ovaries containing hydrating and non-hydrating oocytes for Na+,K(+)-ATPase activity and content.
(3) Areas of sparse pelage were most affected, with the most severe exfoliation occurring on the palms, soles, face and ears.
(4) The MCS said the best choice now is Cornish mackerel caught by "hand-line", with British, European or Norwegian mackerel that is "pelagic-caught" – caught in shoals – as the best alternative.
(5) Brown weasels and white animals undergoing the spring change to the brown pelage and reproductive activity molted, grew a new white coat, and became reproductively quiescent after treatment.
(6) Pregnancy and lactation inhibited moult into winter pelage in voles maintained in short daylengths; development of a winter pelage was, however, greatly accelerated once the short-day dams weaned their litters.
(7) It is concluded that the white muscle of the pelagic species studied is functionally and structurally adapted for sustained aerobic activity with relatively abundant mitochondria being preferentially situated close to the source of gas and metabolite exchange.
(8) Pelagic threshers grow to nearly four metres long, around two metres of which is tail.
(9) In contrast, all or most of the Merkel cells that normally develop within collars or annular clusters in the pad epidermis (around both the vibrissal and intervibrissal or pelage hairs) either disappeared within a few days or failed to develop.
(10) Metabolic and vascular adaptation of teleost lateral propulsive musculature to an active mode of life was investigated in four pelagic teleosts (mackerel, yellowtail scad, pilchard and Australian salmon).
(11) Appropriate seasonal patterns and levels of torpor, body weight, pelage color stage, and food intake were exhibited after T implant removal although serum T was clamped to long-day levels during the preparatory phase.
(12) It is suggested that the pineal gland product, melatonin, initiates changes in the central nervous system and endocrines which result in molting, growth of the white winter pelage, and reproductive quiescence in the weasel.
(13) Two trials were carried out to investigate the potential of small pelagic fish (Rastriobola argenteus) locally referred to as omena, as a protein supplement for pigs.
(14) A previously undescribed morphological variant (completely red) was observed in one specimen of the east bank, where pelage color of the local population varied from completely black to completely red.
(15) Fresh water fishes are generally macrosomatic and microptic, marine fishes (especially coral reef fishes) are microsmatic and macroptic while piscivorous pelagic fishes are macrosmatic and macroptic.
(16) We suggest that tissue from within the ethmoid region of the skull in pelagic fishes is the only site yet identified where magnetite suitable for use in magnetoreception is concentrated.
(17) Pelage hair follicles were isolated by gentle microdissection from 8-12-day-old rats, and maintained in supplemented Williams E medium.
(18) About 60% of fluorescing eggs placed in the pelage were recovered in collecting trays underneath the host in 2 h. An average of 87.7 eggs per cat was laid during the last 8 h of the scotophase compared with 49.9 and 59.1 eggs during the other 8-h periods.
(19) Digested mixtures of squid (Loligo reynaudi), Pelagic Goby (Sufflogobius bibarbatus) and Cape Anchovy (Engraulis capensis) did not resemble the undigested standards of each species respectively.
(20) In addition to acting as a chemosignal, the Harderian material serves two major homeostatic functions: (1) the lipids on the pelage act to insulate the animal against cold and wetness, and (2) the lipids and pigments darken the pelage and increase radiant absorption.
Whitefish
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several species of Coregonus, a genus of excellent food fishes allied to the salmons. They inhabit the lakes of the colder parts of North America, Asia, and Europe. The largest and most important American species (C. clupeiformis) is abundant in the Great Lakes, and in other lakes farther north. Called also lake whitefish, and Oswego bass.
(n.) The menhaden.
(n.) The beluga, or white whale.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, in 1969-70, dieldrin levels in fish from Lake Huron exceeded the 0.3 ppm tolerance level set by Health and Welfare Canada or the Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in 5 percent of lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) and 10 percent of bloaters.
(2) The eight cases, six in Israel and two in New York City, resulted from the consumption of ribbetz or kapchunka, a freshwater whitefish soaked in brine and air-dried, that was processed commercially in New York.
(3) Hair cell polarization patterns were investigated on the sensory macule of the sacculus and lagena of the lake whitefish.
(4) Whitefish smaller than 150 mm did not harbour Crepidostomum specimens, but in bigger fish the prevalence and the mean intensity of infection increased to a certain limit as the fish got larger.
(5) Both patients consumed tainted kapchunka, a salted, ungutted whitefish.
(6) Lesions of tuberculosis in mountain whitefish (Prosopium williamsoni) were present in all visceral organs.
(7) However, for ringed seal and whitefish, TEQs obtained from the bioassay were higher than those from the chemical analysis.
(8) The manometric technique was employed to study the initiated oxidation of 7 samples of whitefish lipids of varying sites, to measure the kinetic parameters depending on the fatty acid composition and concentration of tocopherol.
(9) Heat destruction of types B and E Clostridium botulinum spores on whitefish chubs was observed to be dependent upon the relative humidity (RH) in the chamber in which fish were heated.
(10) PCB residues declined in lake trout and lake whitefish caught in Lake Superior between 1971 and 1975, but increased slightly in bloaters and white sucker (Catostomus commersoni).
(11) Whitefish received dose rates of 10 mGy y-1 from internal 226Ra and could have received comparable external dose rates from the sediments when they forage near the lake bottom, as they usually do.
(12) 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).
(13) arctic char, salmon, trout, whitefish), and this parasite has never been found in pike and perch, the usual intermediate hosts of D. latum.
(14) The main food allergens include cow's milk, eggs, nuts, shellfish and whitefish.
(15) Plasma from several salmonids (coho, chinook, rainbow trout, brook trout, arctic char, lake trout, and whitefish) as well as plasma from some nonsalmonids (sucker, bluegill) cross-reacted with the antisera; serial dilutions of plasma from rainbow trout, brook trout, chinook salmon, and coho salmon were parallel to the SS-25 standard curve.
(16) As I got started on a delicious whitefish and dill salad, he tucked into fried calamari with genuine enthusiasm.
(17) Bile metabolites in whitefish exposed in control areas confirmed low-level background pollution of the lake system due to chlorinated phenolics.
(18) All eight patients had eaten uneviscerated, salted, air-dried whitefish known as kapchunka.
(19) Tales of giant pike in Ullswater and 18th-century legends of 60lb trout are unverified, but the schelly, an Ice Age whitefish relic unique to just four lakes in Cumbria, grows to weigh about a kilo, but is seldom seen.
(20) Smoked whitefish chubs, containing from one to several hundred spores each, were examined for toxin content after storage at 5, 10, 15, and 28 C for as long as 32 days.