Sentences with word «hogfish»

But Schweikert and colleagues found that hogfish skin works differently.

«Color - changing hogfish «sees» with its skin: Fish's skin senses light differently from eyes.»

In the end, I'd have to say hogfish was my favorite with yellowtail running a close second.

«A key lime mint mojito paired with a baked whole hogfish over banana leaves is an unbeatable combination.

Whether it is a buttery hogfish sandwich or a smoky, bacon - filled, grilled oyster dish, Curtis is going to eat, explore and share some of the best spots along the water to float your boat!

The researchers took pieces of skin and retina from a single female hogfish caught off the Florida Keys and analyzed all of its gene readouts, or RNA transcripts, to see which genes were switched on in each tissue.

Now, genetic analysis of hogfish reveals new evidence to explain how they do it.

There are literally thousands of jackfish, batfish and all kinds of sting rays, giant moray eels and lyretail hogfish on the densely coralled saddle.

Seagrass beds are huge feeding grounds, and chances are that you will come upon huge sting rays feeding on the bottom, and schools of parrot fish and hogfish grazing on epiphytes growing on the seagrass.

Honeycomb cowfish, Spanish hogfish, midnight parrotfish and filefish make their way slowly around the reef.

Instead, the data suggest that hogfish skin relies on an alternative molecular pathway to sense light, a chain reaction involving a molecule called cyclic AMP.

The color - changing hogfish can «see» with its skin — an ability that likely evolved separately from light - sensing in the eyes, researchers say.

Schweikert, Johnsen and Duke postdoctoral associate Bob Fitak focused on the hogfish, or Lachnolaimus maximus, which spends its time in shallow waters and coral reefs in the western Atlantic Ocean, from Nova Scotia to northern South America.

In a new study, Duke University researchers show that hogfish skin senses light differently from eyes.

Almost none of the genes involved in light detection in the hogfish's eyes were activated in the skin.

Just how the hogfish's «skin vision» supplements input from the eyes to monitor light in their surroundings and bring about a color change remains unclear, Schweikert said.

Take the hogfish, a pointy - snouted reef fish that can go from pearly white to mottled brown to reddish in a matter of milliseconds as it adjusts to shifting conditions on the ocean floor.

Dusky damselfish, rock beauties, french angelfish, hogfish, spiny lobster and hermit crabs wait to have their portraits taken.

Here you will find longspine squirrelfish, tiger grouper and hogfish in the groove recesses.

Black groupers, blue parrotfish and hogfish are regulars and yellowtail snappers escort you throughout your dive.

The seagrass beds have parrotfish, hogfish, and occasional turtles.

REASON # 2 the fact that the area is diversely populated with abundant marine life like groupers, snappers, hogfish, stingrays, and sand eels and all of these beautiful and colorful creatures are protected under Belize Law

The most common fish you are likely to catch during our «local» fishing excursions include barracuda, snappers, hogfish, grunts and triggerfish.

Angelfish, parrot fish, nudibranchs, puffers, Harlequin shrimp, spotted eagle rays, devil rays, barracuda and hogfish are among the marine dwellers commonly observed in these beautiful surroundings.

Swimming and hiding amongst these corals are a colorful array of playful and curious fishes and other sea animals such as flounders, starfish, crabs, nurse sharks, stingrays, octopus, yellowtail snappers, blue stripe grunts, parrot fish, hogfish, damsel fish and much much more.

As you swim towards the sandy areas on the periphery of the reef, resident species of wrasse and hogfish, can be seen going about their business.