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- noun zoology Any member of the
family Syngnathidae ofseahorses ,sea dragons , andpipefish , all withfused jaws .
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The postdoctoral associate will work on a project which is using next-generation sequencing technologies to study the development and elaboration of a novel reproductive trait, male pregnancy, in syngnathid fishes (BioEssays 29: 884-896).
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The candidate will develop a custom Agilent microarray based on a 454 screen of the seahorse transcriptome and will use this array to screen patterns of gene expression in a set of syngnathid species that differ in the complexity of their brooding structures.
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