Sentences with phrase «called lampreys»

Yet concentrations up to 200 times higher don't seem to harm fishes called lampreys during their larval years, measurements from various species suggest.

Among animals alive today, only the jawless fish called a lamprey has both structures.

Specifically, it seemed to be a type of fish called a lamprey.

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In April use the same baits and also the lamprey, called Seven Eyes.

In 1987, they discovered that the repetitive motions of swimming are choreographed by a group of neurons in the lamprey's spinal cord called the central pattern generator (CPG).

USGS sea lamprey expert Nick Johnson demonstrates the ridge of tissue, called a rope, along the back of a mature male sea lamprey.

A few years ago, Johnson demonstrated that baiting lamprey traps with the pheromone, called 3kPZS, increased trap efficiency by 10 % on average, and in some streams more than 30 %.

«On the other hand, there was this idea that the lizard third eye developed from a different organ, called the parapineal, which is well developed in lampreys.

«We were interested in the origins of lamprey gut neurons because in other vertebrates they arise from a particular embryonic cell type, called neural crest cells,» says Stephen Green, postdoctoral scholar in biology and biological engineering and co-first author on the paper.