osmoregulatorily en · ADV
Etymology
From osmoregulatory + -ly.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) In terms of, or by means of, osmoregulation.
Fish from Early Summer-runs would (1) have higher somatic energy reserves, (2) be more reproductively advanced and (3) be more osmoregulatorily 'prepared' for freshwater entry than Later Summer-runs.
2009, Crossin, Glenn T., Hinch, Scott G., Welch, David W., Cooke, Steven J., Patterson, David A., Hills, Jayme A., Zohar, Yonathon, Klenke, Ulrike, Jacobs, Melinda C., Pon, Lucas B., Winchell, Paul M. and Farrell, Anthony P., Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology - Physiological Profiles of Sockeye Salmon in the Northeastern Pacific Ocean and the Effects of Exogenous GnRH and Testosterone on the Rates of Homeward Migration, Taylor & Francis, page 92Both are osmoregulatorily active areas, and an external position and/or enlargement will be of competitive advantage in a life in diluted brackish or freshwater.
2008, E.V. Balian, C. Lévêque, H. Segers, Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment (Hydrobiologia - Volume 595), Springer - P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands, page 319The initial muscle lesions formed during the breakdown of the plasmodial wall may have made the fish osmoregulatorily imbalanced and opened the corridors as mini-scars (pathecia) for secondary infections.
2004, Ilse Bartsch, Acarothrix Ampliata (Arachnida: Acari: Halacaridae), a New Halacarid Mite from Florida, with Notes on External Genital Acetabula, Zentrum für Marine Biodiversitātsforschung, Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany, page 35
Deriveds
osmoregulator · osmoregulate · osmoregulation · osmoregulatory