"Fraser and his colleagues saw an opportunity to get around that anatomical limitation and learn more about associative memory formation by using zebra fish . \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 3 Mar. 2022",
"What\u2019s more, zebra fish larvae are transparent, so the researchers could peer directly into their brains. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 3 Mar. 2022",
"But in two studies, Mueller estimated that salamanders clear out their inserted transposons several times more slowly than zebra fish or humans. \u2014 Douglas Fox, Scientific American , 1 Feb. 2022",
"Medway Public Library director Margaret Perkins said there were two zebra danios \u2014 also known as zebra fish \u2014 in the tank at the library. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 1 Nov. 2021",
"Corey also spoke about a number of promising areas of research, such as a process of injecting zebra fish with cancer cells that can be traced through the fish over time, giving doctors a better idea of how cancer cells move inside a human body. \u2014 Brian Lisik, cleveland , 12 Oct. 2021",
"Giorgio Vallortigara, a neuroscientist at the University of Trento, and his colleagues have seen indications that zebra fish have an area in their brains that corresponds to numerosity. \u2014 Jordana Cepelewicz, Wired , 15 Aug. 2021",
"This year\u2019s winning image of a juvenile zebra fish was captured as part of research by a team at the National Institutes of Health. \u2014 Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American , 15 Oct. 2020",
"Making motorneurons takes less than a day in zebra fish , about four days in mice, and two weeks in humans\u2014the timing differs rather dramatically. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 19 Sep. 2020"
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"Replicating the same categorization task used in past studies, the researchers showed 23 three- to four-month-olds eight images representing one of two categories\u2014dinosaurs or fish\u2014while simultaneously playing a zebra finch song. \u2014 Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American , 11 Mar. 2021",
"China has approved 54 wild species for commercial breeding and sale, including American red foxes, Australian zebra finches and African ostriches. \u2014 Rachel Nuwer, New York Times , 19 Feb. 2020",
"The findings were consistent with a 2017 study that researched the breeding of wild zebra finches across a range of temperatures. \u2014 Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY , 5 Dec. 2019",
"Animals like zebra finches , chinchillas, and macaques can be trained to do this, but until now only humans were shown to do this spontaneously. \u2014 Virginia Morell, Science | AAAS , 3 Dec. 2019",
"Other genes on the zebra finch GRC are comparable to genes that are known from mouse studies to be involved in early embryonic development. \u2014 Kate Wong, Scientific American , 1 Nov. 2019",
"Seals, for instance, may be deafened by the underwater rumble of shipping traffic, while stressful noise levels seem to cut short the life expectancy of zebra finches . \u2014 Brigit Katz, Smithsonian , 22 Nov. 2019",
"This is true for zebra finches , waved albatrosses, tropic birds and juncos, too. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Nov. 2019",
"In a second study, the researchers found the same was true for zebra finches . \u2014 Marlene Cimons, Washington Post , 21 Apr. 2018"
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"Over the course of a fortnight in the early autumn of 2016, Bianca Rudolph pulled the trigger on all that bait and still managed to execute a zebra . \u2014 Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone , 2 July 2022",
"Azizi is the Louisville Zoo's striped superstar, a 6-year-old Hartmann's mountain zebra . \u2014 Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal , 8 June 2022",
"One of these repeats the coffee tables\u2019 zebra pattern, and five more are crafted from premium woods such as palisander, fraque, paldao and pearwood. \u2014 Demetrius Simms, Robb Report , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Albright wore a vintage zebra on a diplomatic visit to South Africa to meet President Nelson Mandela on December 12, 1997. \u2014 Emily Burack, Town & Country , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Just before the Beijing Olympics, Radamus shaved his head and dyed it in a white-and-black zebra pattern. \u2014 Graham Averill, Outside Online , 17 Mar. 2022",
"First-time mom Lydia gave birth to a zebra foal on April 16, while another mom, Gretta, gave birth to a foal on May 7. \u2014 Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com , 13 May 2022",
"This zebra -print top would look amazing paired with leather shorts. \u2014 Sarah Boyd, Forbes , 13 Apr. 2022",
"The fierce dress featured gold trim at the neckline, a hip-high slit with a gold stud decoration, and dual prints with a leopard pattern on the outer fabric and an ombr\u00e9 zebra pattern on the inside. \u2014 Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR , 3 Apr. 2022"
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"First came the zebra mussel , carried in by overseas freighters sailing up the St. Lawrence Seaway. \u2014 jsonline.com , 2 Sep. 2021",
"Invasive quagga and zebra mussel numbers have exploded since the early 1990s, fundamentally altering the way life works in Lake Erie. \u2014 jsonline.com , 2 Sep. 2021",
"This is a problem that has not been remedied since the zebra mussel 's discovery. \u2014 jsonline.com , 2 Sep. 2021",
"Daryl Gohl, group leader of the University of Minnesota Genomics Center Innovation Lab, was among the researchers who sequenced the genome of the zebra mussel , published in 2019, and is now working on the RNAi project. \u2014 Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com , 30 July 2021",
"But trading Bryant or B\u00e1ez while the Cubs are in contention would make Hoyer about as popular in Chicago as a zebra mussel . \u2014 Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com , 31 May 2021",
"As of Thursday, pet stores in more than 30 states found the invasive zebra mussel hidden among moss balls on their shelves. \u2014 Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star , 12 Mar. 2021",
"The zebra mussel is native to the eastern European region, in the Black and Caspian seas. \u2014 Ayana Archie, The Courier-Journal , 25 Mar. 2021",
"After notifying local officials, USGS fisheries biologist Wesley Daniel took a trip to a pet store in Florida only to discover a zebra mussel in a moss ball there too, suggesting the issue was widespread. \u2014 Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine , 12 Mar. 2021"
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"The zebra crossing quickly became popular, and was only in its teen years when the Beatles made their trip across Abbey Road for the cover of their album of the same name. \u2014 Kat Eschner, Smithsonian , 31 Oct. 2017"
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"Offered in 173 other wood species (none endangered), from ash to zebrano . \u2014 Elle Decor Staff, ELLE Decor , 5 July 2012"
