How to Use stickleback in a Sentence

stickleback

noun
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  • First, male sticklebacks build a nest and perform a dance to attract a mate.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Dec. 2015
  • Then the first stickleback will go a little further, taking its turn being the one nearest the predator.
    — Athena Aktipis, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
  • David Kingsley from Stanford University has been studying the stickleback for many years, and his team have now published the animal’s full genome.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2012
  • One possible explanation was that the marine sticklebacks had already carried a rare mutation for the loss of the pelvic fin, one that arose in their ancestors.
    — Quanta Magazine, 5 Feb. 2019
  • Dancing Fish Three-spine sticklebacks have a strange mating ritual.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Dec. 2015
  • So far, Candolin notes, the sloppier mating caused by murky waters isn't hurting stickleback populations in the Baltic.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Science | AAAS, 20 June 2019
  • As of this year, ecologists have reintroduced chorus frogs, three-spine stickleback fish, the California floater mussel and the San Francisco forktail damselfy to the lake.
    — Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2021
  • One stickleback will begin approaching, then wait to see whether another will approach a little closer.
    — Athena Aktipis, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The stickleback has undergone a grand evolutionary experiment, replicated many times over around the world.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2012
  • The stickleback surge is triggering other ecosystem impacts.
    — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 27 Aug. 2020
  • One poor fellow is turned into an involuntary stickleback.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
  • During the breeding season, male stickleback fish become intensively territorial and take on a bright red coloration on their underside that attracts females.
    — Lee Alan Dugatkin, Scientific American, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The stickleback's hydrodynamics were significantly noisier than that of the stealthy, silent ninja seahorse.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 26 Nov. 2013

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