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n. - Small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies.

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  • Analysis of morphological groupings using ANOPA, a pattern recognition and multivariate statistical method: a case Study involving centrarchid fishes.
  • To find out, the researchers examined museum specimens representing 29 species of centrarchid fishes.
  • By mapping these measurements onto the centrarchid family tree, together with data on what each fish eats, the researchers were able to reconstruct how diet and head...
  • The study, Identification of centrarchid hepcidins and evidence that 17â-estradiol disrupts constitutive expression of hepcidin-1 and inducible expression of hepcidin-2...
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