Sentence examples for reproductive fish from inspiring English sources

The lab opened in 2003 and has yet to have a reproductive fish amongst its approximately 800 residents.

The auditory sensitivity of primary afferents innervating the SE of non-reproductive fish can be shifted to that of reproductive fish by testosterone [ 13], which may act via local conversion to estrogen by aromatase in the ganglion cells [ 17].

Reproductive fish: In May 2011, type I males were hand collected from rocky intertidal zones in northern California.

These fish, referred to as "winter night (WN)", were kept under running seawater in large indoor tanks with ambient lighting through skylights, and sacrificed within 24 h of collection at middark (n = 5; 11 30 pm to 1 00 am) following the same tissue collection procedures as used for reproductive fish.

In this case, selective pressure may have actively suppressed sensitivity to high frequencies while maintaining sensitivity for low frequencies in the non-reproductive winter SE of midshipman fish, rather than actively enhancing the higher frequency hearing in a summer reproductive fish.

Non-reproductive fish: Midshipman migrate offshore to deeper waters in the winter non-reproductive season [ 110].

Total RNA was isolated from the SE of 6 reproductive and 6 non-reproductive fish using the Trizol reagent (Invitrogen) following the manufacturer's standard protocol.

In the closely related Nile tilapia, which has a similar reproductive strategy, fish holding-water decreased aggression within pairs of juvenile fish and this was more accentuated when the fish pairs (of undetermined sex) were from the same original group [ 44].

This study also found that spawning location was correlated with reproductive success; fish that spawned upstream tended to have higher reproductive success than fish that spawned downstream.

Neurophysiology shows that ion channels and steroid hormones are critical to the increased auditory sensitivity in reproductive midshipman fish [ 12, 13] (see also [ 60] for qPCR of steroid receptors in SE of a cichlid fish).

Experimental work shows that farm fish reproductive performance is not equivalent to that of wild salmon, with reduced reproductive performance particularly by males (Crozier 1993; Fleming et al. 1996, 2000; Carr et al. 1997; Weir et al. 2004).