Lampreys

These and the lampreys are the only fishes 'nests that I have observed, though the ova of some species may be seen floating on the surface. ❋ William Beebe (1919)

Rather than the familiar adaptive immune system based on immunoglobulin domains and major histocompatibility complex antigens common to mammals and most other vertebrates, jawless vertebrates such as lampreys and hagfish use modular units of leucine-rich repeat (LRR) proteins called "variable lymphocyte receptors" (VLRs) A and B. Lampreys by Drow male, Wikimedia Commons ❋ Unknown (2010)

" The pheromones are promising as attractants — but the ability to repel lampreys is also extremely useful." ❋ Unknown (2011)

Testing the liquid from decaying lampreys isn't easy work, especially if the ventilation isn't good, says Siefkes. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Wagner and colleagues at Michigan State noticed that if someone had collected a bucket of the squirmy black fish during the day and a few had died, when they threw them back into a stream "all the other lampreys swam away," the fish ecologist says. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The eel-like fish first arrived in the Great Lakes when the Welland Canal was dug in the late 19th century, allowing lampreys from the Atlantic Ocean to bypass Niagara Falls. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He wondered if this alarm response might be used to keep lampreys out of certain streams, helping herd them into smaller and smaller waterways until they could be easily poisoned. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The only invasives that make me hesitate are sea lampreys, if the head is also served on the platter, and quagga mussels, because of the potential for botulism. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When I posted about the lives of lovable native lampreys a couple weeks ago, commenter Allegra pointed me to some great videos of vegetarian lamprey in Vancouver's Morrison Creek. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The current approach of fragmented, opaque, disingenuous governance is what is fatalistic: it commits us to infestation and after the fact, highly expensive response to infestation ---- like we have with zebra mussels, lampreys, gobies. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Amphioxus is a primitive chordate, more primitive than lampreys, that clot their haemolymph. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Adverbs are deadly because they attach themselves like lampreys to commonplace verbs, and suck the life out of the search for powerful, precise verbs. ❋ Arhyalon (2010)

There was also venison paste, salted herring, and lampreys in gelatin. ❋ L.J. SMITH (2010)

[Antonio's] [uncut] - he's [got big] old lamprey in his pants. ❋ Bws55 (2007)

Last night I [totally] did the lamprey on a [chick's] [asshole]. ❋ Scrim (2008)

Get this- those lampreys at my [HMO] denied payment on my [pancreatitis] treatment just because "the subject failed to properly [disclose] his hair had no such 'dirty-blond' status, but was instead ocre-hued." ❋ Wordsworth (1770-1850) (2007)

"Since pussy [shaving] is so common, should we really use the word 'beaver' anymore? [Perhaps] it should be [changed] to 'lamprey'." ❋ Sickfeeling (2007)

Guy 1: Did I tell you about the new sex position I came up with, I call it the [Lazy Astronaut]. Guy 2:Dude you did not invent that I already [read about it] on the Urban Dictionary. Guy 1:ummm yea I was the one who posted it Guy 2: B.S. man! I know the dude that invented it! You are such a [Joke Lamprey]... ❋ Salmonhq (2008)

[Eddie] can't hold his alcohol. Give him three drinks and he'll be in the bathroom [chucking lampreys] [all night]! ❋ Limon Lives (2007)

"[Motorola] [management] is nothing more than a collection of [in-bred] butt lampreys." ❋ Arf_burnt (2010)

Dude, you she's only with that wet [doughnut] because he drives a BMW. [Psst], [dollar lamprey]. ❋ Oxygen Theif (2010)

That [horse mouth] decided to give me [a dirty] [lamprey] ❋ Joe Lamprey (2010)

I can't believe how many [lamprey] stores have popped up around the new Wal-Mart since it opened; little leeches living on the [droppings] of [the shark] ❋ Ringo Saint Hellboy (2011)