Sentence examples for floating eggs from inspiring English sources

Anchovies lay large numbers of elongate, transparent, floating eggs in spring and summer.

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Spawnings in aquaria suggest that the African butterfly fish (Pantodon) of family Pantodontidae produces floating eggs and provides minimal parental care.

Using a software program to compare the sequences of the genes that give the instructions for making egg proteins, they show that teleosts with floating eggs share a gene called VtgAa.

This is a surface layer "not much thicker than a piece of kitchen clingfilm" that is rich in fats, fatty acids, proteins, floating eggs and millions of microorganisms, a region critical to life in the sea.

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During migration through the open sea, loggerheads eat jellyfish, floating molluscs, floating egg clusters, squid, and flying fish.

A hatching from floating egg-masses, as suggested by [35] for Bactrites, is possible.

This floating technique is based on the fact that eggs lose weight as the embryo develops: freshly laid eggs sink to the bottom of a water column and lay horizontal; as eggs develop, they rise with their blunt end and eventually float on the water surface (Liebezeit et al. 2007; median estimation of all floated eggs within the nest was used).

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We estimated hatching dates from observed laying dates or by floating the eggs in water [ 22], assuming 5 and 22 days for clutch completion and incubation, respectively [ 16].