Sentence examples for swimming bladder from inspiring English sources

The time was recorded as latency time when males' courtship behaviour appeared; i.e. males chased females and emitted repetitive throbbing or drumming sounds by vibration of the sonic muscles near the swimming bladder, thereby the name croaker.

In grouper, the infected fish exhibit signs of uncoordinated darting, spiral swimming, abnormalities of swimming bladder control, and vacuolation in brain and retina [ 2, 4, 12- 16].

Adaptation of the different cod populations to the varying physico-chemical conditions seems to involve hemoglobins with highly pH-sensitive oxygen affinities (Root effect) to adjust the swimming bladder to variable pressure during vertical migrations [ 25, 26], together with the novel feature of expressing polymorphic variants with different oxygen-binding properties [ 27].

The total body length of mutant larvae was only slightly reduced to 96.0±0.6% compared with their siblings, and the swimming bladder did not inflate (P<0.01, n=7).

This can cause their organs to become enlarged, leading to swim bladder disorder.

Some bony fish use swim bladders for this purpose.

See gallbladder; swim bladder; urinary bladder.

The swim bladder is reduced or lost in some.

A well-developed swim bladder is present in all osteoglossomorphs.

Sturgeons are valued for their flesh, eggs, and swim bladder.

Many would probably find the idea of consuming a fish's swim bladder unappetizing.