small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research
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stickleback::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | prickleback |
| Type of | acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish |
| Has types | gasterosteus pungitius, three-spined stickleback, gasterosteus aculeatus, ten-spined stickleback |
Examples of stickleback
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A male marine stickleback in reproductive condition with complete armour plates.
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His swimming pool was so black with algae even a stickleback couldn't live in it.
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The PLoS One paper detailed how RAD works on stickleback and the bacterium e-coli.
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In the threespine stickleback, the gene is named Eda and is on chromosome 4.
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There are six and perhaps eight stickleback species, all in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Kingsley and his colleagues found such an animal in the threespine stickleback fish.
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An attacking stickleback is placed at an advantage if it reacts quickly to a threat.
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Over the course of a year, researchers sampled a controlled population of stickleback.
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Evolutionary diversification in stickleback affects ecosystem functioning.
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- Small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research
- The Gasterosteidae are a family of fish including the sticklebacks. FishBase currently recognises sixteen species in the family, grouped in five genera. However several of the species have a number of recognised subspecies, and the taxonomy of the family is thought to be in need of revision. ...
- Stickleback is the eponymous title character of a steampunk comic series created by Ian Edginton and D'Israeli appearing in UK comics anthology 2000 AD. ...
- A small, hardy fish which is common throughout much of Britain.
