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Urea excretion as a strategy for survival in a fish living in a very alkaline environment.
(Nature Publishing Group, 1989-01)
Ammonia is toxic to all vertebrates. It can be converted to the less toxic urea, but this is a metabolically expensive process found only in terrestrial vertebrates that cannot readily excrete ammonia and marine fish that ...
The morphology of the lung of the African lungfish, Protopterus aethiopicus
(Springer-Verlag, 1987)
The lung of the African lungfish (Protopterus aethiopicus) is paired, long and cylindrical. It is situated on the dorsal aspect of the coelomic cavity ventral to the ribs. Much of the gas exchange tissue is found in the ...
Market fish hygiene in Kenya
(Cambridge University Press, 1982)
Vibrio parahaemolyticus was isolated from 53 out of 584 samples (9·1%) of market fish. All strains were Kanagawa negative and were distributed as follows: sea fish 5 out of 370 samples (1·4%), shellfish 48 out of 214 samples ...