How to Use zebra fish in a Sentence

zebra fish

noun
  • Ruptures, tears, and cracks are known to shape zebra fish nostrils, hydra mouths, fruit fly legs, and whole flatworms.
    — Clare Watson, Quanta Magazine, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The zebra fish eggs, along with water samples collected at three different stages, were brought back to Earth for study.
    — Troy Aidan Sambajon, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Mar. 2025
  • To test that hypothesis, the researchers sped up the zebra fishes’ heart rate; more fractures formed in the cardiac jelly.
    — Clare Watson, Quanta Magazine, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Five zebra fish per liter of tank water can be collectively euthanized by electric shock.
    — Victor J. Blue, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • The experiments, in mice, zebra fish, and fruit flies, reveal that the large brain cells called astrocytes serve as supervisors.
    — Ingrid Wickelgren, Quanta Magazine, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Swedish scientists have created bioelectronics in live zebra fish and leeches with this new technique.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Mar. 2023
  • All the while, the researchers monitored neurons and astrocytes in the zebra fish’s brain using advanced whole-brain imaging techniques.
    — Ingrid Wickelgren, Quanta Magazine, 30 Jan. 2026
  • In experiments, the scientists created gel electrodes in the brain, heart, and tail fins of living zebra fish with no signs of tissue damage.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Mar. 2023
  • But Danionella isn't nearly as well understood as other lab models, like zebra fish, which are larger and only transparent in their larval stage.
    — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 16 June 2026
  • In 2025, China is sending six other zebra fish to orbit as scientists expand the research.
    — Troy Aidan Sambajon, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Mar. 2025
  • In any case, their zebra fish work, which is undergoing peer review, shows that a fundamental feature of an essential organ is shaped by mechanical forces ahead of genetics.
    — Clare Watson, Quanta Magazine, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Some research suggests that astrocytes’ ability to accumulate information over time (as happened with the zebra fish’s swim attempts) extends to the sleep-wake cycle.
    — Ingrid Wickelgren, Quanta Magazine, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Zhang, of Purdue, studies bioelectrical signaling in zebra fish, which develop striking extra-long tails when a certain ion channel is mutated.
    — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Recently, Reber’s team used light refraction to infer cells’ densities, finding that the densities of cells from various species — frogs, worms, yeast, bacteria, fruit flies, zebra fish, and humans — ranged widely.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2026

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