Sentence examples for buoyant eggs from inspiring English sources

Their buoyant eggs hatch in about two days.

The eggs of grenadiers (family Macrouridae), a bottom-feeding group of cods, are believed to be laid near the ocean bottom; the buoyant eggs rise partway to the surface.

The fertilization rate was first calculated by observation of 100 randomly fetched buoyant eggs 2 h after fertilization, examined under a microscope.

Females lay about 20,000 to 150,000 buoyant eggs, each 0.4 millimetres in diameter.

In most species, the buoyant eggs and sperm are simply released into the water (free spawning) and the resulting embryos and larvae live as part of the plankton.

This gradient, in conjunction with the water channel protein, aquaporin, drive the hydration of the oocyte which is essential for the production of pelagophil buoyant eggs.

To explain this result, we proposed a model whereby the vast majority of reproductive output from spatially discrete spawning aggregations, comprised of semi-buoyant eggs and larvae, move passively downstream, past dams to relatively poor nursery habitat (such as reservoirs) or areas with a higher propensity for channel drying (such as the San Acacia reach).

Then, buoyant fertilized eggs with bubbles were collected.

In marine teleost that produce buoyant (pelagic) eggs, such as the Senegalese sole, oocytes continue to enlarge during maturation owing to hydration [ 58].

Surgeonfish (tang) eggs are buoyant and pelagic until hatching (∼1 2 days) and young larvae are likely to be fairly poor swimmers [31].

Released coral eggs were positively buoyant and accumulated in the conical tubes.