(n.) The garfish (Tylosurus, / Belone, longirostris) and allied species.
(n.) The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast (Scomberesox saurus).
(n.) The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish.
(n.) The American fresh-water garpike (Lepidosteus osseus).
Example Sentences:
(1) That would eliminate a shark because they have cartilage, and on that basis it was likely one of the billfish."
(2) Two theoretical approaches may be considered for studying the age of billfish: Age may be delineated in terms of the passage of time (chronological age), or may be examined as the progression of physiological development (physiological age).
(3) Many factors contribute to hinder progress in estimating and verifying age, growth, and life history strategies of billfishes.
(4) In calcified tissues, this information can be obtained when the proper techniques are used to investigate the structural and chemical components of billfish hard parts.
(5) The ELISA for sailfish correctly identified eight sailfish from 26 billfish serum samples.
(6) Utilization of structural and chemical analyses of billfish otoliths, vertebrae, and other hard parts, enables specific phases of growth to be linked to environmental occurrences.
(7) In most billfishes, citrate synthase activities were similar to or higher than those found for mammalian cardiac and avian flight muscle.
(8) We were able to differentiate between species of billfish (Istiophoridae family) and to detect considerable intraspecific variation in the blue marlin (Makaira nigricans) by directly sequencing a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-amplified, 612-bp fragment of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene.
(9) Istiophorid billfishes (blue marlin, striped marlin and Mediterranean spearfish), xiphiid billfishes (Pacific and Mediterranean stocks) and a scombrid fish (butterfly mackerel) were included in the analysis.
Gar
Definition:
(v.) Any slender marine fish of the genera Belone and Tylosurus. See Garfish.
(v.) The gar pike. See Alligator gar (under Alligator), and Gar pike.
(n.) To cause; to make.
Example Sentences:
(1) The IDIR terminal sequences and those of group A rotaviruses (GAR) were similar in that each of the (+) strands began with "GG" and ended with "CC."
(2) Retinal projections were studied with autoradiographic and silver methods in the gar, Lepisosteus osseus, one of the two surviving members of the holostean actinopterygians.
(3) Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell mutant purine auxotrophs deficient in GAR synthetase (Ade-C) or AIR synthetase plus GAR transformylase (Ade-G) activities were transfected with this human GART cDNA subcloned into a mammalian expression vector.
(4) We have found that the antifolates methotrexate (MTX) and piritrexim (PTX) completely block the de novo purine pathway in mouse L1210 leukemia cells growing in culture but with only minor accumulations of GAR and AICAR to less than 5% of the polyphosphate derivatives of N-formylglycinamide ribotide (FGAR) which accumulate when the pathway is blocked completely by azaserine.
(5) In tests against other folate-utilizing enzymes, 11a and 11b were found to be inhibitors of glycinamide ribonucleotide formyltransferase (GAR formyltransferase) from one bacterial (Lactobacillus casei) and two mammalian (Manca and L1210) sources with 11a being decidedly more inhibitory than 11b.
(6) The depression of hepatic glycinamide ribotide (GAR) transformylase in rats exposed to nitrous oxide was prevented by supplying a formate precursor, methylthioadenosine.
(7) 10-Formyl-H2folate-Glu5 was a competitive inhibitor of thymidylate synthase (Ki = 0.16 microM with 5,10-methylene-H4folate-Glu1 as substrate and 1.6 microM with 5,10-methylene-H4folate-Glu5) and inhibited GAR transformylase (Ki = 2.0 microM).
(8) Anomerization occurs upon removing the O-isopropylidene group from either 7 or 8, so that the final compound (10) is an equimolar mixture of both anomers, of which only one is active toward GAR-transformylase.
(9) This restored 49-140% of the activities of GAR synthetase, AIR synthetase, and GAR transformylase in transfected cells when compared to wild-type CHO K1 parental cells.
(10) The oxyntomodulin contains 36 amino acid residues and its sequence is H S Q G T F T N D Y S K Y L D T R R A Q D F V Q W L M S T K R S G G I T. The composition of the glucagon is identical to the N-terminal 29 residues of the gar oxyntomodulin.
(11) The gene is functional when YAC DNA is transferred into GARS- or GARS-and-AIRS-deficient Chinese Hamster Ovary cells.
(12) The lateral-line system of gars consists of superficial neuromasts, which are arranged in lines termed pit lines, canal neuromasts and spiracular organs, which are located within diverticula of the hyoid gill pouch.
(13) Characterization of the chemical stability of PRA and Kequi for ribose-5-phosphate, NH3 with PRA will now allow detailed kinetic analysis of the newly discovered trifunctional protein containing GAR synthetase activity in addition to AIR synthetase and GAR transformylase activities.
(14) The avidin-biotin system was also useful, but somewhat less sensitive than GAR-enzyme conjugates.
(15) Similar results were also obtained for KBD estimation using the Garred model and KBD estimated during dialysate isovolaemia.
(16) Untreated, resuced and alkylated, S-sulfonated, or cyanogen bromide cleaved macroglobulin from the gar (Lepisosteus osseus) contained no polypeptide analogous to either catfish or human J chain by the criteria employed in this study.
(17) I suspect that messrs Fry and Connolly – who grew up watching this man segue from gar- landed stage-thesp to tireless campaigner (Stonewall, women's and children's rights) to Hollywood catnip to that dreadful position for anyone with a fine remaining sense of mischief: being on the cusp of national-treasure status – were equally conscious of the company they were in.
(18) The choleretic action of SSM-G was milder, but longer lasting than those of GAR-G and DAM-G.
(19) Using these hybrids along with another independently constructed hybrid, the GAR synthetase gene was mapped distal to SOD-1 and proximal to CP21G1(D21S60).
(20) Glycinamide ribonucleotide synthetase and GAR transformylase were separable only after exposure to chymotrypsin.