Sentences with phrase «called bichirs»

Polypterids include about a dozen species of African fish called bichirs and a single species of ropefish.

The scientists found it shares a genetic mechanism with two other creatures that can regenerate tissue — the zebrafish and a ray - finned fish from Africa called the bichir.

Not exact matches

Another challenge was working with Polypterus senegalus (bichir) as there was no previous knowledge to rely on, so we had to assemble what we call a transcriptome and identify miRNAs in both the bichir and the axolotl.

Joined by Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a squawking onetime Southern bushwhacker who claims to be Red Rock's incoming sheriff, they arrive at Minnie's, which is occupied not by the Mexican - hating proprietress, but, suspiciously, by a bandito - type called Bob (Demián Bichir); Red Rock's English hangman Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth, initially as suave as Christophe Waltz); soft - spoken cowboy Joe Gage (Michael Madsen), who's apparently travelling home to mom; and former Confederate general Sandy Smithers (Bruce Dern, pictured below), who oversaw the mass execution of black Union recruits at the 1862 Battle of Baton Rouge.

If some of those prophets who called the nomination for Demián Bichir still see something we don't, then the whispering buzz that the actor is poised to pull the ultimate upset could indeed be true, either because the performance actually warrants it or because, as unabashed cynicism has suggested, voters feel as guilty about the help of today as that of yesteryear.

The United States is under threat from an unhinged terrorist (Demian Bichir, The Heat) situated south of the border, with President Rathcock (A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III's Charlie Sheen — or Carlos Estevez as the film prefers to call him) enlisting the renegade's assistance.

There's a furtive and rather cryptic Mexican (Demian Bichir) who calls himself Bob, a former Confederate general (Bruce Dern), a smug and effete British hangman (Tim Roth, filling what might otherwise be the Christoph Waltz part), and a smirking gunman named Joe Gage (Michael Madsen, doing the Michael Madsen thing).

The fish, a species called the Senegal bichir or «dinosaur fish,» were selected as test subjects because of their walking ability; they have functional lungs and strong fins to pull them from one body of water to another.