(n.) A genus of fresh-water fishes, including pike and pickerel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Basic composition and properties of isolated transferrins of Silurus glanis and Esox lucius have been compared.
(2) Luminescence methods were used to examine the interaction of Eu(III) and Tb(III) with parvalbumin isozyme III from pike (Esox lucius).
(3) In the testis of Esox lucius at the time of spermiation, activity of cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cAMP) was immunocytochemically localized at the level of the Sertoli cells.
(5) The mercury content of pike (Esox lucius) was found to have fallen markedly after the lake had been treated for only 1 year.
(6) Interactions of Ca2+ binding proteins, pike (Esox lucius) parvalbumins pI 4.2 and 5.0, and bovine and human alpha-lactalbumins, with dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine vesicles were studied by means of scanning microcalorimetry and intrinsic tyrosine and tryptophan fluorescence methods.
(7) n. is described from the warmouth, Lepomis gulosus (Cuvier); brown bullhead, Ictalurus nebulosus (Lesueur); yellow bullhead, I. natalis (Lesueur); redbreast sunfish, L. auritus (Linnaeus); bluegill, L. macrochirus Rafinesque; spotted sunfish, L. punctatus (Valenciennes); and redfin pickerel, Esox americanus (Gmelin), from the Alabama River Drainage, brown bullhead from the Mobile Bay Drainage in Alabama, and pirate perch, Aphredoderus sayanus Gilliams, from an Atlantic Coast drainage in Georgia.
(8) The complete nucleotide sequence of the northern pike (Esox lucius) cDNA for pregrowth hormones was determined from clones derived from a pituitary gland cDNA library.
(9) Out of six fish species examined (Esox lucius, Paracottus kessleri, Perca fluviatilis, Leuciscus leuciscus baicalensis, Coregonus autumnalis migratorius, Thymallus arcticus baicalensis) labrocyte-like cells were detected in Esox lucius, Leuciscus leuciscus baicalensis, Coregonus autumnalis migratotius.
(10) Malignant lymphomas have been found in pikes (Esox lucius L.) caught in the eastern part of the Baltic Sea.
(11) The cortisol stress response to capture was investigated in two species of fish (Perca flavescens and Esox lucius) from sites polluted by high levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and mercury, and from reference sites in the St. Lawrence river system.
(12) The biochemical and molecular properties of frog liver Zn-AcPase were compared with that of the enzyme partially purified from carp (Cyprinus carpio), pike (Esox lucius), and rat (Rattus norvegicus).
(13) 109Cd2+ was applied in the olfactory chambers of pikes (Esox lucius) and the dynamics of the axoplasmic flow of the metal was determined in the olfactory nerves by gamma spectrometry and autoradiography.
(14) vermiculatus) representing the two subgenera Esox and Kenozoa respectively, focused on the significance of the variations of the latero-sensory canal system, its associated bones, and other skeletal elements.
(15) Identification of the intralobular Sertoli cell in the testis of Esox lucius is based upon residual body phagocytosis.
(16) Activities of pineal N-acetyltransferase (NAT) and hydroxyindole-O-methyltransferase, involved in the biosynthesis of melatonin from serotonin, were assessed over 24 h in the pineal organ of pikes (Esox lucius, L.; teleosts) entrained to natural (winter) environmental conditions.
(17) Studies have been made on peculiarities of defensive reaction in Phoxinus phoxinus to external metabolites produced by the pike Esox lucius and excreted into the basin.
(18) Experiments were conducted on Esox lucius caught in the Fox River.
(19) Experiments were conducted on Esox lucius (Northern Pike).
(20) N-Acylethanolamine phospholipids were identified in the central nervous system of the fresh water fish, pike (Esox lucius) and carp (Cyprinus carpio), at levels ranging from 0.1 to 0.9% of total phospholipid.
Pickerel
Definition:
(n.) A young or small pike.
(n.) Any one of several species of freshwater fishes of the genus Esox, esp. the smaller species.
(n.) The glasseye, or wall-eyed pike. See Wall-eye.
Example Sentences:
(1) High-voltage (1.0 mega-volt) electron stereomicroscopy has been used to examine the spatial relationship between the inorganic crystals and the collagen fibrils of pickerel and herring bone.
(2) n. is described from the warmouth, Lepomis gulosus (Cuvier); brown bullhead, Ictalurus nebulosus (Lesueur); yellow bullhead, I. natalis (Lesueur); redbreast sunfish, L. auritus (Linnaeus); bluegill, L. macrochirus Rafinesque; spotted sunfish, L. punctatus (Valenciennes); and redfin pickerel, Esox americanus (Gmelin), from the Alabama River Drainage, brown bullhead from the Mobile Bay Drainage in Alabama, and pirate perch, Aphredoderus sayanus Gilliams, from an Atlantic Coast drainage in Georgia.
(3) High-voltage (1.0 MV) electron microscopy and stereomicroscopy, electron probe microanalysis, electron diffraction and three-dimensional computer reconstruction, have been used to examine the spatial relationship between the inorganic crystals of calcium phosphate and the collagen fibrils of pickerel and herring bone.
(4) Consider these sentences from near the beginning of A Week: We glided noiselessly down the stream, occasionally driving a pickerel from the covert of the pads, or a bream from her nest, and the smaller bittern now and then sailed away on sluggish wings from some recess in the shore, or the larger lifted itself out of the long grass at our approach, and carried its precious legs away to deposit them in a place of safety.