(n.) A California fish (Hemilepidotus spinosus), allied to the sculpin.
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Sculpin
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of marine cottoid fishes of the genus Cottus, or Acanthocottus, having a large head armed with sharp spines, and a broad mouth. They are generally mottled with yellow, brown, and black. Several species are found on the Atlantic coasts of Europe and America.
(n.) A large cottoid market fish of California (Scorpaenichthys marmoratus); -- called also bighead, cabezon, scorpion, salpa.
(n.) The dragonet, or yellow sculpin, of Europe (Callionymus lura).
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(1) Differential growth of the sculpin lateral line system may be related to the feeding behavior of the animal and to differences in the ambient levels of water noise to which larval and adult fish are exposed.
(2) Due to an anteroflexion of the longitudinal axis and a disposition of the gonadotropic (GTH) cells at the periphery of the gland and surrounding the neurointermediate lobe (NIL), the classical subdivisions of the teleost adenohypophysis were not strictly applicable to the sculpin.
(3) The response of sculpin fibres to stretch during tetanus was similar to that reported for frog twitch fibres.
(4) Tested at 20 degrees C, myoglobins from salmon and sculpin bound O2 with lower affinity than myoglobins from the rat or sperm whale.
(5) n. is described from one of 33 staghorn sculpin (Leptocottus armatus).
(6) Insulin from the principal islets of the teleost fish, Cottus scorpius (daddy sculpin), has been isolated and sequenced.
(7) High performance liquid chromatography using PMSS-C18 resin was applied to separate variant-complicated histone H1 from liver of a Baikal lake endemic fish sand sculpin (Cottus Kessleri Dybow).
(8) There was significant seasonal variation in metHb levels for three of the five species, the highest values occurring during the winter months; cunners (Tautogolabrus adspersus) 15.6% in winter and 10.1% in the summer, shorthorn sculpin (Myoxocephalus scorpius) 20.0% in the winter and 8.19% in the summer, longhorn sculpin (Myoxocephalus octodecemspinosus) 17.3-21.6% in the winter and 8.12% in the summer.
(9) Very high infections were found with a maximum of nearly 300 larvae in one sculpin.
(10) The percent of higher chlorinated PCB homologues (5 and 6 chlorine atoms per PCB molecule) increased from 54-56% of the total PCB in plankton and M. relicta, to 61% in P. hoyi, to 74% in sculpins.
(11) Infections of this magnitude have so far not been reported from sculpins or any other fish species of this size.
(12) Pituitary glands from the longhorn sculpin (Myoxocephalus octodecimspinosus) were sectioned transversely into "cephalic" and "caudal" fragments and cultured for 24 hr in medium containing [7-3H]androstenedione.
(13) The impairment of renal function after CP administration resulted in increased serum urea in rat, uric acid in pigeon and magnesium in black sculpin.
(14) We therefore synthesized sculpin PP and aPY-amide by the solid phase method and investigated their central and peripheral effects on feeding and blood pressure, respectively.
(15) Presumably as a result of the amino acid substitutions, sculpin insulin does not readily form crystals containing zinc-insulin hexamers, despite the presence of the coordinating B10 His.
(16) The primary structures of three peptides from extracts from the pancreatic islets of the daddy sculpin (Cottus scorpius) and three analogous peptides from the islets of the flounder (Platichthys flesus), two species of teleostean fish, have been determined by automated Edman degradation.
(17) The binding characteristics of biliverdin to its carrier protein in the blue-green blood of Clinocottus analis (woolly sculpin) and Anguilla japonica (freshwater eel) were operationally defined by various chemical probing methods and spectra analysis.
(18) The amino acid sequences of the peptides suggest that, in the sculpin, prosomatostatin II is cleaved at a dibasic amino acid residue processing site (corresponding to Lys61-Arg62 in anglerfish preprosomatostatin II).
(19) Immunostaining of brain and pituitary sections of teleost fishes (eels, salmonidae, cyprinidae, gourami, sculpin, mullet) with anti porcine galanin (GAL) revealed the presence of immunoreactive (ir) perikarya and a rich network of fibers.
(20) Two marine species, the long-horned sculpin and the flounder, and three freshwater species, the common goldfish, the mottled sculpin, and the common shiner, were used.