Sentences with word «gills»

Seeking to offset its electricity bills, Gills Onions in Oxnard has installed a flow battery.

Sunyer's team observed a similar response after fish were exposed to a different pathogen, the bacterium Flavobacterium columnare, which affects the skin and gills and is a leading cause of death in farmed and wild freshwater fish.

The gills of this rainbow trout embryo may have evolved to exchange ions, not oxygen.

To see if this prevalence indicated a role for IgT in responding to pathogens in the gills, the researchers exposed the trout to a parasite that causes white spot disease, a common infection in farmed, pet and wild fish that particularly targets the skin and gills.

And it conserves that warmth thanks to body fat and the special structure of blood vessels in its gills.

IgT both responds to pathogens and appears to control the commensal bacteria in the gills.

Heat exchange occurs between blood vessels in the gills, which are exposed to cold water.

Further experiments confirmed that these increases in IgT and IgT - producing B cells were specific to the gills and not the result of a systemic increase in production, showing for the first time that a non-mammalian species can locally induce a dedicated mucosal immune response.

Their mucosal surfaces — their skin, digestive tract and gills — are in constant contact with water, including any pathogens that that water may contain.

The team placed the rainbow trout larvae in a box with two compartments: one for the head, where gills develop, and one for the tail.

The Wildbook uses photographs of the skin patterning behind the gills of each shark, and any scars, to distinguish between individual animals.

A microgrid like the one at Gills Onions is now being built on the base that will use a 250 - kilowatt battery to store spare power generated by the solar panels.

The reptiles don't have gills, but they have structures in their mouths that work a little like gills.

Although other salamanders metamorphose into terrestrial creatures, axolotls hold on to their feathery gills and stay in the water for their entire lives.

It can supplement or replace breathing through lungs or gills.

If the tissue had been secreting hormone, the axolotls would metamorphose, losing their gills and shedding their larval skin.

Backlit egg case of a little skate embryo (Leucoraja erinacea), showing emerging pectoral and pelvic fins, external gills, and a large yolk.

Pauly did the physiological math, and concluded that bigger gills won't do the job.

They have true lungs as well as gills, so they can survive on land as well as in their preferred underwater habitat.

Because he says gills, being relatively two - dimensional, simply can't keep up with the three - dimensional growth of the rest of a fish's body.

Though their bodies remain warm, their hearts receive blood directly from the gills, which has a temperature similar to the surrounding water.

«Fish can ingest oil particles that then stick to their gills.

«However, whether by demand or opportunity, our work suggests that the physiological innovation of gills occurred at the same time as the lifestyle transition from passive to active in some of our earliest ancestors.»

The findings support the idea that gills evolved before the last common ancestor of all vertebrates, helping facilitate a «lifestyle transition» from immobile filter - feeder to actively swimming predator.

«These findings demonstrate a single origin of gills that likely corresponds with a key stage in vertebrate evolution: when some of our earliest relatives transitioned from filtering particles out of water pumped through static bodies to actively swimming through the oceans,» says lead author Dr Andrew Gillis, a Royal Society University Research Fellow in Cambridge's Department of Zoology, and a Whitman Investigator at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, US.

These «snapshots» of development led scientists to believe that gills were formed from different tissues: the internal «endoderm» lining in jawless vertebrates, and the «ectoderm» outer skin in the jawed.

A new study has revealed that gills originated much deeper in evolutionary history than previously believed.

Oysters don't have ears like humans, but hair cells similar to ones in the inner ear are found on the gills.

«Gills provided vertebrates with specialist breathing organs in their head, rather than having to respire exclusively through skin all over the body.

Their experiment has now shown that the gills of jawed vertebrates emerge from the same internal lining cells as their jawless relatives.

As the fish respire, their gills excrete ammonia into the water.

Glass that «breathes» like gills, solar cells that imitate leaves, and other biomimetic technologies

They breathe with gills, so they need moisture in order to respire.

The gills» movement also acts as a visual warning to building occupants.

These slits are distantly related to the gills of fish, and represent a critical innovation in evolution not shared with animals like flies or earthworms.

The sub brought up a rib from the mammoth carcass, and the researchers soon discovered the fiery plumes to be the gills of two entirely new species, related to worms, that live near deep - sea hydrothermal vents.

Carbamazepine, used as an anti-epileptic drug, impacted the enzymes in gills, livers and muscles of common carp, according to a 2011 study.

Other fish use a second jaw — one that chews rather than catches food — located further towards their gills to generate noises.

Hagfish are best known for their slime, which gums up the gills of any predator that tries to eat them, causing the attacker to spit them out unharmed.

Tests showed that a new type of herpes virus was probably the culprit; the virus destroys cells lining the gills and suffocates the fish.

The genome could also help uncover the genetic basis for other octopus innovations, such as their elaborate prehensile arms with suckers used to sense chemicals in the water as well as feel and grasp; their ability to regenerate their limbs; a propulsion system that allows them to jet around underwater; camera - like eyes that are more like humans than other invertebrates; and the fact that they have three hearts to keep blood pumping across their gills.

Fish have just a few large blood vessels that bring blood to and from the gills, where tiny vessels pick up oxygen from the water.

The gills sat in a nearly 20 - liter plastic bucket of preservative for a few months before Wegner pulled them out for a look.

The larva has to attach to the gills or fins to develop into juveniles,» said Ackerman.

Sea creatures eat plastic dumped in the ocean, but they also might be accumulating plastic by sucking up tiny particles with their siphons and gills.

The flaps first appeared some 300 million years ago in the sea creatures that climbed out of the water onto land and breathed with lungs rather than through gills.

«The gills are often the first part of a fish to go.

Let's see if I can get the gills to open up a little bit,» he says, gently lifting the gill flap.

To get a feel for what scientists are up against, start with the photos, a gallery of rogues that poison their enemies — such as the dinoflagellate Alexandrium tamarense — or stab them to death — including a Chaetoceros species that plunges its serrated spines into the gills of fish.

And since gills are full of bacteria, because that's where the water is filtered, they can generate unpleasant aromas.