The gills, liver, spleen, heart, gonads andswimbladderwere all removed and examined for parasites.
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Squashed preparations of visceral organs, including heart, liver, spleen, kidney, gall bladder,swimbladderand gonads, were made and examined under a light microscope.
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This differs from the method of flotation used by most fish, which involves a gas-filledswimbladder.
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Gar and bowfin have a vascularizedswimbladderthat functions in the same way.
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In lungfishes, bowfin and bichirs, theswimbladderis supplied with blood by paired pulmonary arteries branching off from the hindmost (6th) aortic arch.
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Theswimbladderis evolutionarily homologous to the lungs.
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It is advised to feed goldfish only sinking food because flakes can causeswimbladderissues.
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Since the shallows were subject to occasional oxygen deficiency, the ability to breath atmospheric air with theswimbladderbecame increasingly important.
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It is capable of filling itsswimbladderwith air and absorbing oxygen from it.
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The fish produces the sound using the muscles of its modifiedswimbladder.
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Deep-water teleosts, which do not have aswimbladder, have few lipids and proteins, deeply ossified bones, and watery tissues that maintain their buoyancy.
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After hatching, the larvae live among the plankton until they develop aswimbladderand transform into adults.
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In appearance, they greatly resemble the typical cods, from which can only be distinguished by their skeletal features and the structure of theswimbladder.
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The fish contracts its sonic muscle fibers against theswimbladderto produce the croaking sound.
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At this point, the free oxygen in the arterial capillaries diffuses into theswimbladdervia the gas gland.
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