(n.) A very large oceanic plectognath fish (Mola mola, Mola rotunda, or Orthagoriscus mola) having a broad body and a truncated tail.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of perch-like North American fresh-water fishes of the family Centrachidae. They have a broad, compressed body, and strong dorsal spines. Among the common species of the Eastern United States are Lepomis gibbosus (called also bream, pondfish, pumpkin seed, and sunny), the blue sunfish, or dollardee (L. pallidus), and the long-eared sunfish (L. auritus). Several of the species are called also pondfish.
(n.) The moonfish, or bluntnosed shiner.
(n.) The opah.
(n.) The basking, or liver, shark.
(n.) Any large jellyfish.
Example Sentences:
(1) In embryos formed from warmouth x green sunfish hybrid crosses, the paternal GPI-A2 isozymes were first expressed at the same time in both reciprocal hybrids, at 21-25 hr after fertilization.
(2) Immature green sunfish, Lepomis cyanellus, were assessed in the laboratory tank only.
(3) The controls of a fibroblastic cell culture derived from gill tissue of bluegill sunfish showed spontaneous transformation after 6 months of passage, similar to the transformation observed in the experimental MAM acetate treated gill cultures.
(4) We report here that the GABA antagonists bicuculline and picrotoxin induced light-adaptive cone contraction in dark-adapted green sunfish retinas cultured in constant darkness; thus they mimic the effect of light or exogenously applied dopamine.
(5) We previously reported that 3,4-dihydroxyphenylethylamine (dopamine) mimicked the effect of light on these movements in photo-receptors and RPE cells of green sunfish, Lepomis cyanellus, by interacting with D2 dopaminergic receptors.
(6) n. is described from the episclera of the eye of the pumpkinseed sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus).
(7) However, there was a better correlation between the in vitro cytotoxicity data for the BF-2 cell culture and LC50 data for bluegill sunfish than between similar data for the FHM cell line and fathead minnows.
(8) Comparisons were made of the accumulation of selenium, histopathological damage, and reproductive status of redear sunfish (Lepomis microlophus) collected in July 1986 from Martin Lake (a contaminated site) and Lake Tyler (a reference site).
(9) The retinofugal and retinopetal connections in the green sunfish were studied by autoradiographic and horseradish peroxidase methods.
(10) Upon transferring 25 degrees C-acclimated sunfish to holding tanks at 7 degrees C, the total membrane resistance exhibited a sigmoidal increase over about 14 days, and a steady membrane capacitance was achieved in about 10 days.
(11) Several eye movements were evoked by electrical stimulation of the brain in anesthetized sunfish and goldfish.
(12) The membrane conductance of fibres from sunfish acclimated to 25 and 7 degrees C was linearly related to the extracellular chloride concentration.
(13) Cadmium effects on the bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus) were assessed histologically and biochemically and the effects were compared with effects on the ecologically relevant parameters of growth and survival.
(14) 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.
(15) BF-2 cells, an established cell line derived from bluegill sunfish, (Lepomis macrochirus), were exposed to 18 organic toxicants, with cytotoxicity being assayed by the neutral red (NR) technique.
(16) We have recorded ocular potentials in response to brief flashes of light from two teleosts, the white perch (Roccus americana) and the green sunfish (Lepomis cyanellus).
(17) The results show that tissue burdens of selenium have declined by 25% since this sunfish population was sampled last in 1981.
(18) The in vitro cytotoxicities of various polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) to bluegill sunfish BF-2 cells were determined with the neutral red assay, which was modified by the incorporation of an S-9 microsomal fraction.
(19) To explore the mechanisms of this light and circadian regulation, we have been investigating effects of several extracellular messengers known to be present in retina on retinomotor movements in the green sunfish (Lepomis cyanellus).
(20) The neutral red assay was used to compare the relative sensitivities of the FHM cells (exposed at 34 degrees C) with those of bluegill sunfish (BF-2) cells, a fibroblastic cell culture (exposed at 26 degrees C), in the presence of different classes of test agents frequently occurring as aquatic pollutants.