(n.) Any fish of the family Pleuronectidae; esp., the winter flounder (Pleuronectes Americanus). The flatfishes have the body flattened, swim on the side, and have eyes on one side, as the flounder, turbot, and halibut. See Flounder.
Example Sentences:
(1) These unique connections provide the necessary and sufficient connectivity to adapt the flatfish's eye movement system to the animals' postmetamorphic existence.
(2) The geographic distribution pattern points to the existence of areas around the globe in which flatfish or eels are able to develop skin papillomas.
(3) Intracellular staining of central neurons with horseradish peroxidase revealed that in postmetamorphic flatfish second-order horizontal canal neurons contact vertical eye muscle motoneuron pools on both sides of the brain via pathways that are absent in all other vertebrates studied.
(4) The 1-butanol adduct enhancement version of the 32P-postlabeling assay was used to measure the levels of hepatic DNA adducts in the marine flatfish, English sole (Parophrys vetulus), sampled from the Duwamish Waterway and Eagle Harbor, Puget Sound, WA, where they are exposed to high concentrations of sediment-associated chemical contaminants and exhibit an elevated prevalence of hepatic neoplasms.
(5) Flatfish, mainly in the form of plaice, and crustacea were found to be the main source of organic arsenic compounds.
(6) The opposite is found for lymphocystis, which is common among flatfish species of the Atlantic shores of Europe and North America.
(7) Amphistium Amphistium is a 50m-year-old relative of the flatfish.
(8) During their metamorphosis, the animals undergo a 90 degrees tilt to one side or the other to become the bottom-adapted adult flatfish.
(9) We studied the allergenic significance of the fish species considered most representative because of their greater consumption in our environment (flatfishes: Pleuronectiformes such as sole, whiff, and witch; Gadiformes such as hake; and Scombriformes such as albacore) or because of the results of previous studies of Gadiformes such as cod.
(10) Outside these areas of "potential skin papilloma risk," flatfish and eel populations are not afflicted with papillomas even if they inhabit estuaries or rivers with a high man-made or naturally-occurring pollution.
(11) Fish lymphocystis disease viruses (FLDV) were isolated directly from lymphocystis disease lesions of various flatfish species and further purified.
(12) The results of both laboratory and field studies show that sediment-associated PAHs are biologically available to both flatfish species, and that both species accumulate similar levels of PAHs.
(13) The peripheral and central oculomotor organization of the adult flatfish presents no morphological substrates that suffice to explain adaptive changes in its vestibuloocular reflex system.
(14) These species and the flatfishes Platichthys flesus (Linnaeus) and Limanda limanda (Linnaeus) were laboratory infected.
(15) Pardaxin, an active principle of the repellent secretion of the Red Sea flatfish, Pardachirus marmoratus, elicited severe struggling, mouth paralysis, and transient increase in urea leakage from the gills only when administered to the medium bathing the shark's pharyngeal cavity and gills.
(16) In a marine flatfish halibut, (Hippoglossus hippoglossus), we have found a more specialized hatching process.
(17) While modern flatfish, like flounder, plaice and sole, have both eyes on one side of the head, the shift in eye position is incomplete in Amphistium.
(18) Mechanical or electrical stunning is compulsory except for eel and flatfish.
(19) The effects of the two toxic proteins Pardaxin I and II isolated from the gland secretion of the flatfish Pardachirus marmoratus on frog neuromuscular transmission have been investigated and compared to those of the gland secretion.
(20) A comprehensive description of the histopathologic characteristics of a spectrum of idiopathic lesions in feral English sole (Parophrys vetulus), a bottom-dwelling flatfish, from Puget Sound, Washington State, is presented.
Turbot
Definition:
(n.) A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of flounders more or less related to the true turbots, as the American plaice, or summer flounder (see Flounder), the halibut, and the diamond flounder (Hypsopsetta guttulata) of California.
(n.) The filefish; -- so called in Bermuda.
(n.) The trigger fish.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, turbot fed [1-14C] 18:1omega9, 18:2omega6, or 18:3omega3 converted only small amounts of labeled fatty acids (3-15%) into fatty acids of longer chain length.
(2) Turbot populations have fallen by nearly a third in the past three decades.
(3) These parameters were also used to investigate the potential of V. anguillarum to amplify in the turbot intestinal tract.
(4) Place the turbot fillets on top and pour the white wine and fish stock on to the fillets.
(5) The anti-rainbow trout MT serum was shown to cross-react totally with MTs from plaice, flounder, turbot, perch, salmon and pike, but exhibited no reactivity towards MTs from human, mouse, rat, worm or crab.
(6) Of more than 400 bacteria isolated from turbot (Scophthalmus maximus), 89 have previously been shown to inhibit the in vitro growth of the fish pathogen Vibrio anguillarum.
(7) Infectivity trials showed that P. piscicida did not possess strict host specificity since the majority of the isolates were virulent for gilthead seabream, rainbow trout and turbot, with LD50 values ranging between 10(3) and 10(6) live cells.
(8) Sprinkle over the diced tomato and chopped parsley and pour over the turbot.
(9) This suggested that turbot, like trout, might be able to use the 18:3 omega 3 as a precursor of the omega 3 series.
(10) All the ECP samples were cytotoxic for fish and homoiothermic cell lines, possessed notable phospholipase activity and displayed haemolytic activity for sheep, salmon and turbot erythrocytes (but not for trout erythrocytes).
(11) Who could resist poached turbot with shrimp sauce, or a properly made Cornish pasty?
(12) At a state banquet of Scottish venison and turbot in Buckingham Palace, Xi repeated a theme he first raised in parliament, stressing Sino-British cooperation during the second world war as a mutually binding experience in which both nations fought side-by-side to uphold justice”, and highlighting the story of a British journalist and schoolteacher, George Hogg, who reported on “the atrocities committed by the Japanese atrocities”.
(13) By combining several methods, including enzyme electrophoresis, we show that this species is found only in turbot.
(14) The use of high-performance anion-exchange chromatography on a Mono Q column for isolation of a glycolipophosphoprotein, vitellogenin, from turbot plasma has been evaluated.
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(16) Biochemical characteristics of five rotavirus-like viruses isolated from striped bass (Morone saxatilis), turbot (Scophthalmus maximus), smelt (Osmerus mordax) and Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in North America and Europe were compared.
(17) In the eastern Mediterranean, the copepod Lepeophtheirus thompsoni Baird, 1850, has been reported to infest turbot, brill and flounder.
(18) During a three years survey, a total of 149 samples from 20 farms of rainbow trout, salmon and turbot were examined for the presence of virus with the purpose to study the viral infections affecting cultured fish and their incidence in the fishfarms of Northwestern Spain.
(19) In another experiment, a stenohaline seawater fish, the turbot, was adapted to diluted 5% saltwater and to fresh water.
(20) The indole formation in shrimps, herring, and turbot, held under different storage conditions, is compared with other common quality indices such as TBA-value and alpha-tocopherol content.