(n.) A North American river chub (Hybopsis biguttatus).
Example Sentences:
(1) From homozygote jerker mice no ABR could be elicited.
(2) There was a similar morphologic pattern of cochlear degeneration in both homozygote and heterozygote jerker mice affecting primarily the stereocilia and cuticular plate in both outer and inner hair cells.
(3) The genetic locus encoding AHD-A2 (suggested name Ahd-1) is localized on chromosome 4 and was mapped close to je (jerker) and Gpd-1 (encoding the liver and kidney isoenzyme of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase).
(4) Livingstone explained after the broadcast at his election manifesto launch on Wednesday that he had wept because the advert was "a tear-jerker".
(5) Adam & Eve, the ad agency perhaps best known for its John Lewis TV ads including the She's Always a Woman tear-jerker , has been bought by DDB Worldwide for about £50m.
(6) The functional and morphological changes in heterozygotes probably reflect a random influence of the jerker gene vis-à-vis the wild type of gene.
(7) The jerker mouse mutant has an autosomal recessive mutation, which in homozygotes results in early postnatal degeneration of the sensory epithelia in both the cochlea and vestibulum.
(8) A normal elemental content was found in otoconia from Jerker mutants, whereas in the Dancer mutant a large number of otoconia from both maculae contained very high concentrations of phosphorus.
(9) In these otoconia, the phosphorus calcium ratio was approximately 1:8, in Jerker (and normal) otoconia approximately 1:150-200.
(10) The elemental composition of otoconia from Jerker and Dancer mouse mutants was analysed in both maculae.