Sentence examples for amounts of slime from inspiring English sources

To deter predators, hagfish have special pores along the body that secrete copious amounts of slime.

Like all hagfish it can also produce enormous amounts of slime to choke prey animals and deter predators.

It wasn't easy: Hagfish, for instance, produce copious amounts of slime, and Sansom had to empty a suitcase full of goop while returning by train from a collecting trip to Sweden.

If you chose to make smaller amounts of slime in separate containers, evenly divide the borax solution among the containers.

Although this finding is contrary to the current belief that higher biofilm-forming ability is associated with antibiotic resistance [ 42, 44], it is supported by studies that reported no correlation between the amount of slime produced and antibiotic susceptibility of S. epidermidis[ 41, 45].

The pellet includes a large amount of the slime and fruit fragments, which creates difficulties in the oocysts recovery process and is probably a source of PCR inhibitors.

Now, the robot's first findings are already helping scientists piece together more of this previously hidden under-ice food web, including more evidence of the under-ice algae, as well as tiny copepods, ctenophores (jellyfish), predatory marine worms called arrow worms, and abundant amounts of large floating slime balls, known to scientists as larvaceans.

The inexplicable, funky gunk around town that's defiling pumpkin patches — "smells like a nursing home," a policeman says — amounts to a trail of slime leading to that conclusion.

Last, large amounts of OM materials were released in slime trails deposited by gliding cells.

Hagfish (Fig. 2a) are a group of primitive, jawless, eel-shaped, marine chordates, characterized by the copious amounts of gelatinous slime that their skin exudes when they are threatened (hence their alternate name of slime eels).

There are two groups of slime molds: the cellular slime molds and the acellular slime molds.