Sentence examples for time of spawning from inspiring English sources
Tropical coral trout (Plectropomus species) remain dispersed over a reef for most of the year, but adults will aggregate at certain locations at the time of spawning.
Fin tissue samples from each parent fish were collected at the time of spawning.
In spring, by the time of spawning, a fast significant increase in activity was observed.
Similar to CAT and SOD activities, GST level increased significantly in spring by the time of spawning (Fig. 3).
In vitro availability of unfertilized eggs was accomplished by dissecting ovaries at the time of spawning; a latency period in dry conditions from 1 to 10 min induced no detrimental effect on initiation of egg activation.
Starfish may use environmental signals to coordinate the time of spawning (day length to indicate the correct time of the year, dawn or dusk to indicate the correct time of day), and chemical signals to indicate their readiness to breed.
Over three years and five lunar cycles, we documented the predictability of spawning times in the threatened Caribbean Pillar Coral Dendrogyra cylindrus.
Prior to our study, the consistency of spawning times across years was not known, characteristics of gravid colonies had not been described, methods for propagation were not developed, settlement surfaces were untested, and no primary polyp settlers had been observed or photographed on the reef or in the laboratory.
I was born in Damanhur, Egypt and raised in a land of civilization and advanced knowledge from another era that, during the time of Ptolemy, spawned the Library of Alexandria and museum and educational center -- that ancient beacon of learning believed to be tragically extinguished by the Roman conquerors.
The spatiotemporal population genomics study presented here has made important progress toward enabling such management by identifying the genetic signature of distinct population components and mapping the spatial distribution of spawning grounds over time for each of these.
Mean size of spawning fish has varied over the time period (Fig. S2).
