medaka

English

A medaka

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese メダカ.

Noun

medaka (plural medakas or medaka)

1. Oryzias latipes, a small Japanese ricefish, popular for use in aquariums.
   • 2009 January 16, Colin A. M. Semple, Martin S. Taylor, “MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: The Structure of Change”, in Science, volume 323, number 5912:

     […] report oscillating patterns in the rate of genetic variation around the start sites of transcription in the medaka (Japanese killifish, Oryzias latipes ) genome.

   • 2009, Daniel Dietrich, Heiko O. Krieger, Histological Analysis of Endocrine Disruptive Effects in Small Laboratory Fish, page 47:

     Similar to the findings in medaka, fathead minnows treated with an intermediate concentration (10ng/L) of EE2 [18] in the ambient water at various timeranges throughout development did not result in sexreversal.^[sic]

   • 2012, Ten-Tsao Wong, Paul Collodi, “Chapter 12: Application of Fish Stem Cell Technology to Aquaculture and Marine Biotechnology”, in Garth L. Fletcher, Matthew L. Rise, editors, Aquaculture Biotechnology, page 193:

     Much of the research directed toward developing this technology has been done using model fish species such as medaka (Wakamatsu et al. 1994; Hong et al. 1996) and zebrafish (Sun et al. 1995; Ma et al. 2001; Kurita and Sakai 2004).

Synonyms

• (Oryzias latipes): Japanese killifish, Japanese rice fish

References

• medaka on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• medaka on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• medaka on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• List of sequenced animal genomes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Adamek, madake

Japanese

Romanization

medaka

1. Rōmaji transcription of メダカ