stickleback
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Noun
- Small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research
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| 1 | stickler | 3 | 2 |
| 2 | trickle | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | tickled | 2 | 2 |
| 4 | kickbacks | 2 | 1 |
| 5 | prickleback | 3 | 0 |
| 6 | pricklebacks | 3 | 0 |
| 7 | stickle | 2 | 0 |
| 8 | stickley | 2 | 0 |
| 9 | stickles | 2 | 0 |
| 10 | kickback | 2 | 0 |
| 11 | tickle | 2 | 0 |
| 12 | sticka | 2 | 0 |
| 13 | sickle | 2 | 0 |
| 14 | strickler | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | stricklen | 3 | 0 |
| 16 | stoneback | 2 | 0 |
| 17 | stickland | 2 | 0 |
| 18 | stickball | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | steinback | 2 | 0 |
| 20 | stainback | 2 | 0 |
| 21 | tickles | 2 | 0 |
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This Word in the News:
Species invasion has a larger impact on stickleback reproduction than warming of breeding habitat
Apr 18, 2025 ScienceDirect.com
Apr 18, 2025 ScienceDirect.com
Single-Cell Peptide Profiling to Distinguish Stickleback Ecotypes with Divergent Breeding Behavior
Jan 10, 2025 ACS Publications
Jan 10, 2025 ACS Publications
Biologists Seek to Reintroduce More Genetically Robust Stickleback Population at Presidio’s Mountain Lake
Oct 10, 2024 National Park Service (.gov)
Oct 10, 2024 National Park Service (.gov)
Fish lab designed to spawn human health discoveries
Jul 11, 2024 The University of Arizona Health Sciences
Jul 11, 2024 The University of Arizona Health Sciences