... of water from the blind-side opercular valve during take-off. Buccal pressure recordings in winter flounder ( Pseudopleuronectes americanus ) show that a buccal pressure pulse begins 0–20 ms before the beginning of the fast-start and has a range of mean magnitudes for three individuals of 1.6–10.7 kPa. We...

...D. Burton; M. P. O’driscoll ABSTRACT Melanophores of winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus) subjected to repeated transfers between black and white backgrounds display pronounced enhancement of the rates of melanosome aggregation and dispersion. Melano-some aggregation in response...

... isolated skin samples from the winter flounder ( Pseudopleuronectes americanus ). The results obtained were consistent with the hypothesis, indicating that fish skin is an effective barrier to ice propagation and that the effectiveness of this barrier improves with the addition of antifreeze proteins...