Sentence examples for gaping behaviour from inspiring English sources

Mytilus galloprovincialis did not show gaping behaviour at either temperature.

Because M. galloprovincialis did not show any sign of gaping behaviour, only P. perna results were included in the analysis.

This study reports differences in gaping behaviour of these two co-existing and competing mussel species, M. galloprovincialis and P. perna.

This study investigates the effect of gaping behaviour on habitat segregation of the two dominant mussel species living in South Africa, the invasive Mytilus galloprovincialis and the indigenous Perna perna.

Moreover, gaping behaviour did not vary significantly as a function of tidal height (3-way ANOVA, arcsine transformed p = 0.74 and p = 0.19, Table 2a,b), except for ventilation movements at 17°C during the first two hours (low zone < mid zone).

Moreover, no intra-specific differences between mussels from different intertidal heights were observed in any of the parameters measured; this suggests that gaping behaviour alters water loss and desiccation but is related to species peculiarities rather than being a direct individual response to intertidal environmental conditions.

Non-gaping behaviour allows the invasive species to colonise the higher mussel zone that is incompatible with the gaping behavior of the indigenous mussel because of the high risk of desiccation.

In P. perna, gaping significantly increased with temperature, supporting the important role of this behaviour in aerobic respiration [ 65] and the correlation between gaping and heat stress.

While the behaviour was observed for only the first two hours at 17°C, 36% of mussels kept gaping until the 5th hour at 37°C.

Many of those were gaping disparities.

Looming over that is the gaping deficit.