Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small Japanese fish (Oryzias latipes) that is commonly found in rice paddies and is often used in biological research or in stocking aquariums.
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- noun A small Japanese
ricefish , popular for use inaquariums .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But while the zebrafish genome has changed considerably since it diverged from the last common ancestor some 320 million years ago, the scientists found the medaka genome has remained remarkably unchanged for approximately 300 million years.
Scientists Sequence the Medaka Fish Genome | Impact Lab 2007
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Japanese scientists have sequenced the genome of the medaka fish Oryzias latipes — a popular pet in Japan and an often-used organism in the laboratory.
Scientists Sequence the Medaka Fish Genome | Impact Lab 2007
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The new study suggests the last common ancestor of medaka, pufferfish and zebrafish experienced eight major rearrangements between chromosomes within just 50 million years of that event.
Scientists Sequence the Medaka Fish Genome | Impact Lab 2007
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May 12th, 2006 at 8:24 am medaka 6 – It does seem, lately, that a day without a scandal is like a day without sunshine, non?
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Otocephala while fugu, tetraodon, medaka, and stickleback belong to
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Haiyan Huang et al. 2010
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Finally, Ugt5h is absent in zebrafish and medaka but present as single copies in the fugu, tetraodon, and stickleback genomes.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Haiyan Huang et al. 2010
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(B) Phylogenetic tree of the zebrafish (z), fugu (f), medaka
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Haiyan Huang et al. 2010
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WASHINGTON - Researchers from University of Konstanz, Germany and the University of Tokyo have found a genetic mutation that gives medaka fish its grey colour, rendering them less attractive to the colourful members of the opposite sex.
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Interestingly, we found that, in the medaka and stickleback genomes, the
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Haiyan Huang et al. 2010
hernesheir commented on the word medaka
It's a fish of the rice paddies in Japan.
January 2, 2012