lamprey 的定义
plural lam·preys.
- any eellike marine or freshwater fish of the order Petromyzoniformes, having a circular, suctorial mouth with horny teeth for boring into the flesh of other fishes to feed on their blood.
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- Margaret Docker, an expert on lamprey biology and genetics at the University of Manitoba, calls the findings “very exciting.”
- Biologists had called the lamprey-as-ancestor theory into question before, but the problem rested on the sparse fossil record of lampreys.
- It’s probably not a possibility you’d considered until now, but for more than a hundred years, evolutionary biologists suspected that the lamprey, a jawless, eel-shaped, blood-sucking fish, was the closest living model of the very first vertebrates.
- It’s not clear why lampreys would have left the rich coastal water in the first place.
- Of particular interest is the fact that lampreys can regrow their spinal cord, a trait which could be life changing if humans came from the same root.
- A human lamprey, sticking himself always at the thin and meager board of the poor, a vile parasite, but holy!
- But the lamprey has no trace of arm or leg, not even a bone or cartilage hidden under the skin.
- And its ancestors never had any limbs at all, for the earliest lamprey embryo shows no traces of them.
- The lamprey is not a fish at all, only a wicked imitation of one which can deceive nobody.
- Anything from a dead lamprey or a bunch of sunfish eggs to a piece of tomato can is grateful to him.