(n.) A large tropical fish (Orcynus pelamys) allied to the tunny. It is about three feet long, blue above, with four brown stripes on the sides. It is sometimes found on the American coast.
(n.) The skipjack (Sarda Mediterranea) of the Atlantic, an important and abundant food fish on the coast of the United States, and (S. Chilensis) of the Pacific, and other related species. They are large and active fishes, of a blue color with black oblique stripes.
(n.) The medregal (Seriola fasciata), an edible fish of the southern of the United States and the West Indies.
(n.) The cobia or crab eater (Elacate canada), an edible fish of the Middle and Southern United States.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sequence comparison of bonito GH with other GHs revealed that there is a significant deletion in the middle of the molecule.
(2) The overall features of the molecule are virtually identical with those of bonito ferrocytochromes c and other cytochromes c. In the present work, the modes of molecular packing among cytochromes c were also compared by means of intermolecular distance maps.
(3) A description of the cytochrome c structure has been provided by high-resolution X-ray crystallography for the cytochromes from tuna, bonito, rice and yeast (Saccharomyces iso-1).
(4) Mutagens have been found in smoked, dried bonito products, popular items in Japanese foods.
(5) New foci (San Rafael del Yuma, Batey Palo Bonito, Maicillo, Nisibon and additional barrios in the city of Higuey) were found in the eastern provinces, and other completely new foci (Bayaguana, Sabana Rey (Cotui) and Jarabacoa) in the center of the country and in the National District (Guerra) were also detected.
(6) Everyone in Brazil loves football.” Professional players have been swapping Brazil – home to the “jogo bonito” or “beautiful game” – for China – whose national team Fifa ranks 81st in the world , below Benin, Belarus, Israel and Zambia – for about two decades.
(7) Now, nobody was seriously expecting any romantic 1970-style jogo bonito antics from Big Phil Scolari's functional side, but few expected the samba beat to be so comprehensively drowned out by Colombia's insouciant cumbia shuffle.
(8) Dried bonito (Katsuobusi), a Japanese traditional seasoning made of bonito muscle was hydrolyzed by various proteases and the inhibitory activity of the hydrolyzates for angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) [EC 3.4.15.1] was measured.
(9) Growth hormone (GH) was extracted under alkaline conditions (pH 10) from pituitary glands (6.3 g) of bonito (Katsuwonus pelamis), and subsequently purified by gel filtration, ion exchange chromatography, and reversed-phase HPLC.
(10) The mutagens in the heat-dried bonito meat were purified by thin-layer chromatography (TLC) and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC).
(11) Bonito flakes can be found in Japanese specialist shops and are traditional, but not compulsory.
(12) Headlines are declaring Brazil the home of Samba football and the jogo bonito (beautiful game).
(13) The final topping is bonito fish flakes, which are parmesan-thin flakes shaved off dried, fermented tuna.
(14) The structure analysis of bonito heart ferrocytochrome c was carried out at 2.3 A resolution by X-ray diffraction, and a Kendrew-type skeletal model was built up.
(15) On eating preparations of a particular variety of fish, the skipjack (bonito), patients with tuberculosis on isoniazid repeatedly developed symptoms very similar to those of histamine poisoning.
(16) Tuna, albacore, mackerel and bonito are implicated, as are nonscombroid fish such as mahi-mahi and bluefish.
(17) A molecular weight of 21,000 and an isoelectric point of 7.0 for bonito GH were estimated by SDS-PAGE and gel electrofocusing, respectively.
(18) The structure analysis of bonito heart ferricytochrome c was carried out at 2.8 A resolution by X-ray diffraction.
(19) Sequence comparisons revealed that the elasmobranch GH is considerably more similar to tetrapod GHs (e.g., 68% identity with sea turtle GH, 63% with chicken GH, and 58% with ovine GH) than teleostean GHs (e.g., 38% identities with salmon GH and 42% with bonito GH) except for eel GH (61% identity), and substantiates the earlier finding derived from the immunochemical and biological studies (Hayashida and Lewis, 1978) that the primitive fish are less diverged from the main line of vertebrate evolution leading to the tetrapod than are the modern bony fish.
(20) However, the bonito GH antiserum as well as yellowtail GH antiserum exhibited hormone specificity but not species specificity in immunoblotting.
Skipjack
Definition:
(n.) An upstart.
(n.) An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle.
(n.) A name given to several kinds of a fish, as the common bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish, the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc.
(n.) A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that changes in pH following temperature changes can be accounted for solely by the passive, in vitro behaviour of the chemical buffer system found in the blood, so that active regulatory mechanisms of pH adjustment need not be postulated for skipjack tuna.
(2) Six samples of canned tuna, albacore, yellowfin, and skipjack, in water or oil pack were analyzed in duplicate by a fluorometric method and the AOAC colorimetric method.
(3) By means of a simple procedure involving two gel filtrations and an ion-exchange chromatography, alpha-N-acetylgalactosaminidase was purified to an electrophoretically homogeneous form from skipjack liver, in which the enzyme is the dominant glycosidase.
(4) During hypoxia, skipjack and yellowfin tunas show a decrease in heart rate and increase in ventilation volume, as do other teleosts.
(5) Among the muscles of six fish species, three mammals, and a bird, white muscle of skipjack tuna showed the highest buffering capacity (BC) in the pH range 6.5-7.5, followed by the muscle of little-piked whale, chicken pectoralis minor, and mackerel white muscle.
(6) A method was developed to obtain heavy meromyosin (HMM) from the tryptic digest of skipjack tuna dorsal myosin.
(7) These results suggest that skipjack alpha-N-acetylgalactosaminidase exists as an active dimer at acidic pH and as inactive monomer at neutral or alkaline pH.
(8) On eating preparations of a particular variety of fish, the skipjack (bonito), patients with tuberculosis on isoniazid repeatedly developed symptoms very similar to those of histamine poisoning.
(9) This occurs at a higher inhalant water PO2 (between 130 and 90 mmHg) in skipjack tuna than in yellowfin tuna (between 90 and 50 mmHg).
(10) A high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method for simultaneous determination of 7-dehydrocholesterol (7-DHC), vitamin D3 and 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (25-OH-D3) in tissues of fishes was established, and using this method the tissue distribution of the sterols in lamprey (Entosphenus japonicus), great blue shark (Prionace glauca), skipjack (Katsuwonus pelamis) and albacore (Thunnus alalunga) was investigated.
(11) The results suggest that large quantities of vitamin D3 in the liver of skipjack and albacore are supplied by other biosynthetic routes or by intake of vitamin D3 rather than by photochemical biosynthesis.
(12) The effects of temperature change (in vitro) on acid-base balance of skipjack tuna blood were investigated.
(13) Histidine was found in great quantities in all species except swordfish, anserine was found in relatively large amounts in tunas and swordfish, but carnosine was only present in small amounts in yellowfin and skipjack tunas.
(14) In these circumstances the high histamine content of skipjack and the interference by isoniazid with the metabolism of the amine presumably play complementary roles in the production of histamine poisoning; each of these factors by itself is apparently inadequate to produce such intoxication.
(15) Lactate and glucose turnover rates were measured by bolus injection of [U-14C]lactate and [6-3H]glucose in cannulated lightly anesthetized skipjack tuna, Katsuwonus pelamis.
(16) Compounds mutagenic toward Salmonella typhimurium strain TA98 in the presence of rat-liver homogenates (S9) were formed when fish flesh was fried at 199 degrees C. Three species of Hawaiian fish commonly consumed in Hawaii (skipjack tuna, Katsuwonus pelamis; yellowfin tuna, Neothunnus macropterus; and milkfish, Chanos chanos) were cooked in an electric skillet, along with samples of sole (Microstomus pacificus).
(17) The symptoms and the circumstances leading to the reactions are almost identical with those previously reported with another variety of tropical fish, the skipjack or bonito.
(18) When correcting for body mass and temperature, skipjack tuna has at least as high or even higher lactate turnover rates than those recorded for mammals.
(19) Skipjack was found to contain probably the highest concentration of histamine reported in fish.
(20) In dried skipjack meat and salted salmon eggs, umami substances such as Glu and inosine 5'-monophosphate (IMP) were found to be important contributors to their tastes as well.