About 40% of bony fish, from goldfish to rainbow trout, live in fresh water, but only 5% of elasmobranchs (the sharks, rays, and skates) can manage this feat.
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Total RNA was extracted from goldfish brain using the TRIzol® RNA isolation reagent (Invitrogen, Canada).
The following tissues were collected from goldfish: hindbrain, midbrain, hypothalamus, telencephalon, olfactory bulbs, pituitary, anterior intestine (J-loop), posterior intestine (rectum), kidney, spleen, liver, heart, eye, muscle, gill, gall bladder, adipose, ovary, testes, and skin.
Brain samples were harvested from goldfish and Fischer 344 rats (for positive control) and sonicated for 30 seconds on ice in Lysis Buffer (135 mM NaCl, 1 mM MgCl, 2.7 mM KCl, 20 mM Tris buffer pH 8, 1% Triton-X, 10% Glycerol, 0.5 mM Sodium vanadate, 0.2 mM phenylmethanesulfonylfluoride, 10 mM NaF).
Two other PCR products from goldfish were splice variants of mPRγ-2.
This analysis reveals that the major group of fish OlfC genes (Group I, containing genes from zebrafish, goldfish and fugu) is distinct from the largest set of mammalian V2R sequences, which comprise two related clades designated here as Group IV and Group V (also referred to as "Family A" and Family B," respectively, in ref. [ 18]).
Benjaminson, a biological engineer at Touro College, in New York, cut strips of flesh from live goldfish and submerged them in a nutrient bath extracted from the blood of unborn cows.
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Water from the goldfish bowl is poor porridge indeed, and the bathtub is deemed "too frothy" for a nap.
