(n.) A person with a large head; a numskull; a dunce.
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Rockfish
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several California scorpaenoid food fishes of the genus Sebastichthys, as the red rockfish (S. ruber). They are among the most important of California market fishes. Called also rock cod, and garrupa.
(n.) The striped bass. See Bass.
(n.) Any one of several species of Florida and Bermuda groupers of the genus Epinephelus.
(n.) An American fresh-water darter; the log perch.
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(1) Parallel tests were conducted on larval nematodes in 16 whole (round) salmon, 16 dressed salmon (heads and viscera removed), and 32 whole (round) rockfish.
(2) n. was found in the urinary bladders of the oliver rockfish, Sebastes serranoides; quillback rockfish, S. maliger; striped surfperch, Embiotoca lateralis; and pile surfperch, Damalichthys vacca.
(3) Comparative features of mature spores showed that they were similar to those of Henneguya sebasta Moser and Love 1975, from the bulbus arteriosus of seven species of California rockfish, Sebastes.
(4) D-[3H]glucose transport properties of brush-border membrane vesicles (BBMV) of upper intestine and pyloric ceca of the Pacific copper rockfish (Sebastes caurinus) were characterized and compared.
(5) Salmon were infected with 1,245 of these larvae, and rockfish with 2,300.
(6) n. was found on the bulbus and truncus arteriosus and in the heart chambers of 7 species of marine rockfish, Sebastes, from central and southern California.
(7) Prostaglandin (PG) syntheses from labelled highly unsaturated fatty acids were investigated in washed thrombocyte suspensions of four species of marine fish, flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus), black seabream (Acanthopagrus schlegeli), black rockfish (Sebastes schlegeli), and red seabream (Pagrus major).
(8) [1-14C]linolenic acid was injected into the rainbow trout, Salmo gairdnerii, ayu, Plecoglossus altivelis, eel, Anguilla japonica, red sea bream, Chrysophrys major, rockfish, Sebastiscus marmoratus, globefish, Fugu rubripes rubripes and prawn, Penaeus japonicus (molting stage D"1-D2), and the bioconversion of linolenic acid (18:3 omega 3) to highly unsaturated fatty acids such as eicosapentaenoic (20:5 omega 3) and docosahexaenoic (22:6 omega 3) acids was investigated.
(9) The solution was tested on fish (mullet, rockfish, and barracuda) lens nuclei, which produced weak extracts with other extraction media.
(10) Six genera and 15 species, 2 new, of myxosporida were recovered from 14 species of California marine rockfish, Sebastes.
(11) Sixty-four fish were blast-frozen to -35 C for 15 hr to determine the effects of commercial blast-freezing on the viability of third-stage larvae of Anisakis simplex encapsulated in the muscle and viscera of sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) and canary rockfish (Sebastes pinniger).
(12) The 6 live worms, 2 from salmon and 4 from rockfish rounds, were recovered from muscle 1 hr after freezing; they were slightly motile and showed severe internal damage.
(13) The unattractive appearance of Kudoa cysts in rockfish filets detracted from their commercial value.
(14) n. is described from three of 15 black rockfish (Sebastes melanops).
(15) Linolenic acid was converted to 20:5 omega 3 and 22:6 omega 3 intensively in the rainbow trout, moderately in the ayu, eel and prawn, but slightly in the red sea bream, rockfish and globefish.
(16) The pathogenesis of two histozoic myxosporidans, Henneguya sebasta and Kudoa clupeidae, was studied from the Pacific rockfish, Sebastes paucispinis.
(17) The tapeworm prevalence was 84% of 354 rockfish in the coastal waters of Southern and Central California.
(18) Norepinephrine (NOR) is a potent activator of carbohydrate metabolism in isolated hepatocytes from copper rockfish (Sebastes caurinus), increasing rates of glycogenolysis fourfold with an EC50 of 6.3 nM.
(19) After blast-freezing, 4 in-the-round salmon, 4 dressed salmon, and 8 in-the-round rockfish were examined at 1, 24, 48, and 72 hr.
(20) The two steps in bile acid conjugation have been studied in subcellular fractions of liver from three species of fish; vermillion rockfish, canary rockfish and ling codfish.