Author Keywords: Convective heat transfer coefficient; human body; forced convection; natural convection; heat flow meter 相似文献
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The dwarf morph of the Lake Tanganyika cichlid Telmatochromis temporalis uses empty snail shells as shelters and breeding sites in shell beds, in which many empty shells exist. Here, we assessed
selection forces regulating body size in this fish. Field observations showed that large males tended to have a greater number
of females in their territories, suggesting that sexual selection favours large males. Nonetheless, a transplant experiment
suggested that male body size was limited by the ability to hide in empty shells from large piscivorous fish. In females,
the number of ovarian eggs increased with body size, suggesting that fecundity selection favours large females. However, females
are smaller than males. Females spawned eggs close to the apices inside the shells. The small space there would decrease the
risk of egg predation by egg predators, and small body size of females may be a result of adaptation to spawn eggs in the
small, safe spaces. This study provides support for the idea that male and female body sizes have been limited by different
ecological pressures (predation on adult fish in males, predation on eggs in females), which has not been reported previously
in any animal. 相似文献
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Hidekado Ishigaki Tetsumi Horikoshi Tomoki Uematsu Masato Sahashi Tadahiro Tsuchikawa Tohru Mochida Tetsuya Hieda Norio Isoda Hiroko Kubo 《Journal of thermal biology》1993,18(5-6):455-458
1. 1. The convective heat transfer coefficient of the human body is essential to predict convective heat loss from the body.
2. 2. The object of this paper is to calculate the convective heat transfer coefficient of the human body using heat flow meters and to estimate the thermally equivalent sphere and cylinder to the human body.
3. 3. The experimental formulae of the convective heat transfer coefficient for the whole body were obtained by regression analysis for natural, forced and mixed convection.
4. 4. Diameters of the thermally equivalent sphere and cylinder of the human body were calculated as 12.9 and 12.2 cm, respectively.
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The cuckoo catfish Synodontis multipunctatus and S. grandiops are endemic to Lake Tanganyika and the only known nonavian vertebrates that exhibit obligate interspecific brood parasitism. Seven maternal mouth-brooding cichlid fish species are reported to be natural hosts of the parasitic catfish and share a common reproductive behaviour that the catfish exploits: cichlid females spawn eggs on the bottom, allowing the catfish female to place her eggs near the cichlid eggs, and the cichlid females collect the catfish eggs by mouth together with their own eggs. However, so far it has not been reported that the cuckoo catfish exploit different spawning behaviours. The genus Cyprichromis consists of five maternal mouth-brooding species endemic to Lake Tanganyika, most of which spawn and collect eggs in open water. This study reports that the cuckoo catfish also parasitizes the open-water spawning Cyprichromis coloratus, although it may not be a regular host. 相似文献
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Takeo T Hoshii T Kondo Y Toyodome H Arima H Yamamura K Irie T Nakagata N 《Biology of reproduction》2008,78(3):546-551
Sperm cryopreservation provides an economical means of storing genetically engineered mouse strains in resource facilities. In general, relatively high fertilization rates are obtained for frozen/thawed sperm of the CBA/JN, DBA/2N, and C3H inbred strains and some F1 hybrid strains. However, the fertilization rate for frozen/thawed sperm of C57BL/6, which is the main strain of genetically engineered mice, remains very low. Therefore, it is necessary to establish an in vitro fertilization (IVF) method for cryopreserved C57BL/6 sperm that can obtain a high rate of fertilization after thawing. In the present study, we focused on the effects of methyl-beta-cyclodextrin (MBCD) on the fertilizing ability of frozen/thawed C57BL/6 sperm. Our results have shown that the highest fertilization rate for frozen/thawed sperm was obtained with MBCD at 1.0 mM for 30 min (63.7% +/- 11.0%), but the effects were attenuated by long-term incubation for 120 min at 1.0 or 2.0 mM. The embryos with frozen/thawed sperm showed good developmental potential, and the offspring had normal fertility. The efflux of cholesterol from frozen/thawed sperm was increased by MBCD in a dose-dependent manner and occurred much earlier and to a greater extent than bovine serum albumin. The localization of cholesterol labeled by filipin in the sperm plasma membrane was drastically decreased by MBCD. In summary, we suggest that MBCD is useful for developing an IVF method for frozen/thawed C57BL/6 mouse sperm achieving a high fertilization rate, being involved in the capacity to sequester cholesterol from sperm membrane. 相似文献
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Microdontochromis rotundiventralis, a new cichlid fish (perciformes: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika
Microdontochromis rotundiventralis, a new species of cichlid fish, is described on the basis of 13 specimens from Nkumbula Island, Lake Tanganyika (Zambia).
It is distinct from its only congener,M. tenuidentatus, in having two (rarely one) rows of teeth on both jaws, a rounded distal margin on the pelvic fin, the outermost pelvic fin
soft ray length 1.23–1.43 times the innermost ray, a deeper body (depth 26.8–29.1% standard length) and the anal fin with
9 (rarely 8 or 10) soft rays. 相似文献
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Tetsumi Takahashi 《Hydrobiologia》2010,644(1):139-143
The degree of lunar synchronization of spawning is thought to be related to a strategy that decreases predation on the brood
in Tanganyikan substrate-brooding cichlids. Here, I examined the periodic change of ovary development in two morphs of Telmatochromis temporalis: the normal morph uses burrows under stones as spawning nests, whereas the dwarf morph uses holes within empty snail shells.
The normal morph showed a significant lunar synchronization of ovary development, but the dwarf morph did not. In the normal
morph, spawning prior to the full moon probably decreases the incidence of approaching brood predators and increases the guarding
efficiency of parents. In the dwarf morph, however, lunar cyclic spawning may be dispensable, because the spawning nests within
shells are probably highly effective for predator avoidance. These two morphs are closely related, and then will be a good
model to clarify the widely observed phenomenon of lunar cyclic spawning. 相似文献