the free-swimming larva of many molluscs, having a rudimentary shell and a ciliated velum used for feeding and locomotion
Word origin
C19: from New Latin, from velum + -ger(ous)
Examples of 'veliger' in a sentence
veliger
Veliger larvae occurred on the fifth day until the eleventh day.
. Muzahar, Agus Alim Hakim 2018, 'SPAWNING AND DEVELOPMENT OF DOG CONCH Strombus sp. LARVAE IN THE LABORATORY', E-Journal Ilmu dan Teknologi Kelautan Tropishttp://journal.ipb.ac.id/index.php/jurnalikt/article/view/18607. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Larvae hatched at veliger stage with a mean shell diameter of 179.3 μm.
Isabel Cunha 2014, 'Preliminary data on Littorina littorea development under rearing conditions', Frontiers in Marine Sciencehttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/conf.fmars.2014.02.00029/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Compared with trochophore larvae, veliger larvae had 55 proteins upregulated and 49 proteins downregulated.
Guilan Di, Xianghui Kong, Xiulian Miao, Yifang Zhang, Miaoqin Huang, Yuting Gu, WeiweiYou, Jianxin Zhang, Caihuan Ke 2017, 'Proteomic analysis of trochophore and veliger larvae development in the small abaloneHaliotis diversicolor', BMC Genomicshttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-017-4203-7. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The trochophore and veliger are distinct larval stages in gastropod development.
Guilan Di, Xianghui Kong, Xiulian Miao, Yifang Zhang, Miaoqin Huang, Yuting Gu, WeiweiYou, Jianxin Zhang, Caihuan Ke 2017, 'Proteomic analysis of trochophore and veliger larvae development in the small abaloneHaliotis diversicolor', BMC Genomicshttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-017-4203-7. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Trochophore and veliger larvae were compared using a label-free quantitative proteomic approach.
Guilan Di, Xianghui Kong, Xiulian Miao, Yifang Zhang, Miaoqin Huang, Yuting Gu, WeiweiYou, Jianxin Zhang, Caihuan Ke 2017, 'Proteomic analysis of trochophore and veliger larvae development in the small abaloneHaliotis diversicolor', BMC Genomicshttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-017-4203-7. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
On the tenth day, the intracapsular veliger stage was observed.
Carlos A. O. Meirelles, Helena Mattews-Cascon 2005, 'Spawn and larval development of Pleuroploca aurantiaca (Lamarck, 1816) (Gastropoda:Fasciolariidae) from Northeast Brazil', Scientia Marinahttp://scientiamarina.revistas.csic.es/index.php/scientiamarina/article/view/247. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In addition, diet 3 showed the highest percentage of viable veliger larvae.
Ana Rato, Sandra Joaquim, Tânia G. Tavares, Zita E. Martins, A. Catarina Guedes, LuísF. Pereira, Jorge Machado, A. Margarete Matias, José F. M. Gonçalves, Paulo Vaz-Pires,Leonardo J. Magnoni, Rodrigo O. A. Ozório, Domitília Matias 2018, 'Viability of dietary substitution of live microalgae with dry Ulva rigida in broodstockconditioning of the Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas)', Biology Openhttp://bio.biologists.org/content/7/9/bio035923. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)