(n.) An edible labroid fish (Haitula onitis, or Tautoga onitis) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. When adult it is nearly black, more or less irregularly barred, with greenish gray. Called also blackfish, oyster fish, salt-water chub, and moll.
Example Sentences:
(1) In four fishes (sea bass, tautog, trout, and scup), optic nerves reacted with the antibodies.
(2) Tissue-specific histone H5 in the nucleated erythrocytes of dogfish, scup, skate, tautog, sea robin and toad fish was studied.
Wrasse
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the genus Labrus, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are bright-colored.
Example Sentences:
(1) The aggregation of melanosomes within melanophores of the cuckoo wrasse (Labrus ossifagus; belonging to the family Labridae) has, on pharmacological grounds, been shown to be mediated by postsynaptic alpha 2-adrenoceptors which in turn act via an inhibitory control of adenylate cyclase.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Grappling with grouper … diving off Garajau beach I tried scuba-diving from Garajau beach in Caniço; the clear water of this protected marine reserve is teeming with big, friendly mero (grouper) and surprisingly tropical-looking fish, such as rainbow wrasse and damsel fish.
(3) The tonical cholinergic and adrenergic influence on the heart rate was investigated in vivo in seven species of marine teleosts (pollack, Pollachius pollachius; cuckoo wrasse, Labrus mixtus; ballan wrasse, Labrus berggylta; five-bearded rockling, Ciliata mustela; tadpole fish, Raniceps raninus; eel-pout, Zoarces viviparus and short-spined sea scorpion, Myoxocephalus scor pius) during rest and, in two of the species (P. pollachius and L. mixtus), also during moderate swimming exercise in a Blazka-type swim tunnel.
(4) Among Labrid fishes (Wrasses), polychromy is very frequent.
(5) The warmer waters are encouraging species of wrasse and parrotfish to move further north.
(6) The effect of pertussis toxin (PT) on the aggregation of pigment granules in melanophores from cuckoo wrasse (Labrus ossifagus L.) was studied.
(7) Thalassoma bifasciatum, the bluehead wrasse (Labridae), found in the reefs of the Caribbean normally undergoes sex reversal after receiving behavioral cues.
(8) The S-EIA proved effective in screening the toxic fishes (mullet, wrasse, manini, and aholehole).
(9) The quantitative study of the brain of Amia, Lepisosteus and Polypterus leads to results which are compared to those previously got on the Sturgeon and three species of Tleosts (the Rainbow Trout, the Carp and the Ballan wrasse).
(10) He hears crustaceans, parrot fish, anemones, wrasses, sharks, shrimps, puffers and surgeonfish.
(11) The viscera of the wrasse, aholehole, and manini also showed high levels of the toxic substance.
(12) Isolated scales from, for example, cuckoo wrasse (Labrus ossifagus) retain a large sensitivity to externally applied noradrenaline (or more generally catecholamines) for several weeks.
(13) Large and small males of the protogynous wrasse, Thalassoma duperrey differ in reproductive behavior, gonad morphology, and gonadal steroid production.
(14) In its natural environment the cleaner wrasse, Labroides dimidiatus, possesses a hiding place in the reef, where it disappears every night.
(15) Pigment aggregation in melanophores from the cuckoo wrasse (Labrus ossifagus L.) has previously been shown to be mediated by alpha-2 adrenoceptors.
(16) The autonomic nerve control of the swimbladder of the goldsinny wrasse has been studied by experiments with isolated strips from the muscularis mucosae, drug effects on gas secretion in vivo, fluorescent histochemistry and quantitative analysis of catecholamine content.
(17) A photometrical method has been developed that allows assessment of subcellular pigment migration in melanophores of the fish cockoo wrasse (Labrus ossifagus L.) The pigment migration was studied with local light spot transmission measurements.
(18) The aggregation of melanosomes within melanophores (pigment cells) attached to isolated scales from the cuckoo wrasse (Labrus ossifagus L.) can be elicited either by stimulation of intrinsic nerves (electrical field stimulation of K+ depolarization) or by adrenoceptor agonists.