How To Use Hagfish In A Sentence
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One form is lamprey like, whereas the other is closer to the more primitive hagfish.
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In addition to sequence length, differences between homeotherms and poikilotherms (hagfish, gray mullet, zebrafish, toad, and snake) occur at positions 373 and 400, respectively.
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Even sharks are closer cousins to humans than they are to lampreys and hagfish the only modern survivors of the once thriving and diverse group of jawless fishes but again, we call them all fish.
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Agnathans generally have the smallest brains for their body size, with hagfishes having brains that are two to three times larger than lampreys of the same body size.
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This jawless mouth sets the lamprey and its cousin the hagfish apart from all other modern vertebrates - animals with backbones.
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Some are scavengers - hagfish, crustaceans, sharks - which devour much of the whale's flesh and tissue over the course of a few months.
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And as I demonstrated when I dropped one into the bucket, a hagfish can exude from its skin a substance so slimy and so plenteous it seems supernatural.
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It used to be thought that hagfish were vertebrates, but in fact these ‘fish’ have no backbone at all.
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These first vertebrates lacked jaws, like the living hagfish and lampreys.
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Looking at further opportunities within the industry, the minister pointed to underutilized species such as hagfish, cucumber fish, and different varieties of crab.
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Hagfish are the oldest lineage of craniates and thus are considered important to evolutionary studies.
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Even sharks are closer cousins to humans than they are to lampreys and hagfish the only modern survivors of the once thriving and diverse group of jawless fishes but again, we call them all fish.
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Game of Life says: repugs constituents as dumber than slime from a hagfish.
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Those spiky things are feelers called barbels that the hagfish uses to feel its way around the ocean.
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Whatever their phylogenetic position, the hagfish are still considered the most primitive vertebrate known, living or extinct.
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In contrast, the vertebrate insulin gene became a metabolic regulatory action of insulin early during vertebrate evolution since insulin regulates glucose homeostasis even in hagfishes and lampreys.
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It has been suggested the demand for hagfish skin has greatly depleted the hagfish populations.
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Hermaphrodites were rarely observed in a study on the Japanese hagfish.
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Primitive fishes, such as hagfish and lampreys, use suctionlike mouths to attach to the outer surface of other fish and suck out nutrients.
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In traditional classifications, the hagfish, lampreys, and extinct armored jawless fish are grouped together in the paraphyletic Class Agnatha.
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Apparently living at great depths with the hagfish, the prehistoric ratfish was recently discovered off Brazil by scientists.
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Traditional methods of population assessment used by the fisheries industry cannot be applied to the hagfish.
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The absence of a cerebellum in hagfishes and lampreys appears to be the only exception.
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I understand that hagfish mucous is very sensitive to temperature variations.
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Litman next plans to look for novel immune genes in jawless vertebrates, such as lamprey and hagfish.
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The crystal structure of hagfish insulin has also been determined and it is virtually superimposable with porcine insulin.
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To date, the question of luteal-like structures in lampreys and hagfish is unresolved.
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This jawless mouth sets the lamprey and its cousin the hagfish apart from all other modern vertebrates - animals with backbones.
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Protecting hagfish populations during potential reproductive periods may allow them to recover from the pressures of a commercial fishery.
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Of course you'll also save money by collecting the hagfish yourself hence the flippers and by using low-wage Haitians to monitor mucous degradation.
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Single forms were cloned from dogfish shark, greenland shark, both lamprey species, hagfish, and amphioxus.
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These data from our studies suggest a seasonal reproductive cycle in the Atlantic hagfish.
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All early fishes - and two modern survivors of this initial radiation, the lampreys and the hagfishes - lacked jaws.
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For example, the first gill arch in jawless fishes like lampreys (and in embryos of jawed vertebrates) corresponds to the jaws in those vertebrates that have them (that is, all modern vertebrates except lampreys and hagfishes).
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Every morning you get up, jump into the ocean, collect hagfish mucous, crawl back onto the beach, rub the slime all over your body, sunbathe for a few hours, and then let a couple of dozen Haitians sniff you before sitting back down to write all about it.
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Saul Alinsky learned from that, and strongly advocated giving up the bombs and rhetoric within their revolutionary dreams, instead entering the old form of society like the hagfish to devour it from the inside.
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For a long time, people thought of hagfish as scavengers and parasites, probably due to their habit or burrowing into dead or dying animals and eating them from the inside out. In
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I love the smell of hagfish slime under a Haitian sun
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The relationships between hagfishes, lampreys, and jawed vertebrates are one of the still-unresolved problems in craniate phylogeny.
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In addition, there is little known about how the hagfish feed, grow, or sexually mature.
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Apparently living at great depths with the hagfish, the prehistoric ratfish was recently discovered off Brazil by scientists.
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Little is known about the steroids associated with these structures in hagfish.
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They are represented now only by the lampreys, eel-like forms that are parasites on fish, and the hagfish, also eel-like but feeding on dead or dying animals.
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Since the 1970s, many evolutionary biologists have considered an eel-like, deep-sea-dwelling creature called the hagfish to be the closest extant relative of a last common ancestor for all backboned creatures.
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Gametogenesis appeared to be unaffected by hypophysectomy suggesting that the hagfish gonad was independent of hypophysial gonadotropic control.
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Hagfish live in burrows on the seafloor and locate their food by smelling and feeling as they swim.
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The hagfish, together with lampreys, are living representatives of the jawless vertebrates (class Agnatha) and are considered to be the most evolutionarily ancient vertebrates.
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First in are the sharks and hagfishes, the black eel-like creatures with radial, rasping maws that strip the flesh.
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The hagfish, together with lampreys, are living representatives of the jawless vertebrates (class Agnatha) and are considered to be the most evolutionarily ancient vertebrates.
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For example, the first gill arch in jawless fishes like lampreys (and in embryos of jawed vertebrates) corresponds to the jaws in those vertebrates that have them (that is, all modern vertebrates except lampreys and hagfishes).
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