What's the difference between bonito and tuna?

Bonito


Definition:

  • (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.

Tuna


Definition:

  • (n.) The Opuntia Tuna. See Prickly pear, under Prickly.
  • (n.) The tunny.
  • (n.) The bonito, 2.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Liberal party received $320,000 from the Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association.
  • (2) The methanol-ammonia (20:1) and chloroform-methanol-ammonia (2:2:1) systems, used with silica-gel plates, are the most promising for rapid preliminary screening of tuna fish extracts for histamine.
  • (3) Nutritionists recommend we consume two portions a week of fish, including one of oily fish such as mackerel, herring and tuna.
  • (4) Immunological properties of the tuna glucagon were analyzed by radioimmunoassay, showing a high degree of cross-reactivity with the 30K antibody.
  • (5) On the other hand, introduction of the mixed protein into a diet based on flour plus tuna sterilized at 115 degrees C for 90 minutes, was not capable of maintaining the optimum patterns for weight evolution.
  • (6) In quiescent BAECs, tuna AI (1 microM) apparently induced c-myc and platelet derived growth factor (PDGF) A-chain messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) expressions within 30 min, which persisted for 6 h. In contrast, captopril induced a very low expression of c-myc mRNA, and had no relation to PDGF A-chain mRNA expression.
  • (7) The levels were 10 times higher than those found in tuna in the same area in previous years, but still well below those that the Japanese and US governments consider a risk to health.
  • (8) Three foods were preferred by case patients more frequently than by control patients: tuna fish, chicken salad, and cheese.
  • (9) The bluefin tuna, which has been endangered for several years and has the misfortune to be prized by Japanese sushi lovers, has suffered a catastrophic decline in stocks in the Northern Pacific Ocean, of more than 96%, according to research published on Wednesday.
  • (10) It went into tinned soups, salad dressings, processed meats, carbohydrate-based snacks, ice cream, bread, canned tuna, chewing gum, baby food and soft drinks.
  • (11) The ATPase activity of tuna dorsal HMM was found to be very similar to that of rabbit skeletal HMM in many respects: KCl concentration dependence, pH dependence, effect of pCMB, kinetic parameters (Vmax and Ka) in actin activation, and Arrhenius activation energy.
  • (12) 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.
  • (13) The ion binding properties of horse, bovine, and tuna cytochrome c (both oxidized and reduced) have been measured using a combination of ultrafiltration, neutron activation, and ion chromatography.
  • (14) Midway through a mouthful of tuna sashimi, I confess I struggle to see her as, well… "A musical actress?"
  • (15) Illegal bounty from the sea Facebook Twitter Pinterest The central and western Pacific is a rich fishing ground, providing an estimated 60% of the world’s tuna catch for a $7bn annual global market.
  • (16) The larger width of lifetime distribution observed for TNS bound to tuna apomyoglobin was related to a more extended conformational space accessible to the fluorophore in this protein compared to sperm whale myoglobin.
  • (17) Both those stores, the group said, offered pole-and-line caught tinned fish and had said they were committed to improving the sustainability of their fish, but the majority of their tuna was caught using the purse seine method.
  • (18) A novel inhibitor of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) has been discovered and isolated in a pure form from acid extract of tuna muscle by successive column chromatographies and HPLC.
  • (19) Shrimp, canned tuna and salmon are the top choices .
  • (20) The sites in oxidized cytochromes c are the COOH-terminal sides of Tyr-48, Phe-46 and Tyr-46 for horse, rabbit and tuna cytochromes c, respectively.

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