How to Use axolotl in a Sentence

axolotl

noun

• The axolotl, with 32 billion DNA bases in its genome, appeared to be in this camp.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2018
• Why not give a salamander like Archie the axolotl a try.
  — Nikita Charuza, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2023
• They’re cuddled up at home with a pink axolotl named Archie.
  — Vulture, 29 June 2022
• Once revered by Aztecs, today the axolotl appears in many forms.
  — Samantha Schipani, Smithsonian, 8 Jan. 2018
• Zoo officials expect the pink axolotl will be a big hit with kids.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2022
• Nearly all the humans in my life are as contained today as an axolotl in a Parisian zoo.
  — National Geographic, 21 Apr. 2020
• If an axolotl loses a limb, the appendage will grow back, at just the right size and orientation.
  — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2020
• Our team decided to focus on the telencephalon of the axolotl.
  — Ashley Maynard, The Conversation, 1 Sep. 2022
• The previous record holder, the Mexican axolotl, has a genome made up of 32 billion base pairs.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Jan. 2021
• The axolotl, endangered in the wild, has been bred in laboratories and studied for more than 150 years.
  — Nicholas Bakalar, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
• An axolotl pulled from the waters of Xochimilco last month in Mexico City.
  — Sarah E. Needleman and Salvador Rodriguez, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2022
• With gills that flare out when submersed, the salamander looks similar to the axolotl, a relative.
  — National Geographic, 19 June 2018
• Scientists have decoded the genome of the axolotl, the Mexican amphibian with a Mona Lisa smile.
  — Nicholas Bakalar, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
• While the axolotl genome relied on machines from Pacific Biosystems, the nanopore system would work in this regard, too.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2018
• Like the charismatic axolotl, this amphibian’s limbs are adorably stubby for its size, and a smug smile constantly plays at the corners of its slimy black mouth.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 21 May 2018
• The axolotl, squishy mystery of an amphibian, lives beneath the surface of the water and its external gills crown its face like the headdress of an ancient warrior.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2022
• The axolotl’s unusually large genome may be useful for something.
  — Ben Lerner, Harper's Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
• The special ingredient seems to be a distinct set of chemicals that exist on axolotl, but not pig, retinas.
  — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2020
• The bizarre and adorable aquatic salamander called the axolotl has been enticing collectors and scientists for centuries.
  — Brian Clark Howard, National Geographic, 11 Oct. 2016
• The bizarre and adorable aquatic salamander called the axolotl has been enticing collectors and scientists for centuries.
  — National Geographic, 11 Oct. 2016
• Researchers published the first complete salamander genome, for the Mexican axolotl.
  — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
• The smiling pink amphibian known as the axolotl is hugely popular as a pet, but in the wild has dwindled down to just one poulation in Lake Xochimilco, outside Mexico City.
  — Harrison Takoff, Smithsonian, 2 Apr. 2018
• Sure, some salamanders and other lizards and amphibians are capable of regenerating something like a tail, but the axolotl takes that ability and turns it up to the extreme.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 3 June 2021
• More specifically, Godwin demonstrated that when an axolotl had too few of these immune cells to react to an injury, a missing body part couldn’t be regrown and a scar appeared instead.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 3 June 2021
• And if dinos aren’t their jam, this memory foam pillow also comes in varieties like a unicorn, axolotl, shark, avocado, penguin and more.
  — Karthika Gupta, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2023
• Although its genome is about 10 times the size of the human one, which makes the analysis harder, the axolotl’s regenerating capabilities are an obvious lure.
  — Malcolm Ritter, The Seattle Times, 3 Apr. 2019
• This movie shows immune cells, labeled to glow green, moving within a regenerating axolotl fingertip.
  — Amber Dance, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2020
• This movie shows immune cells, labeled to glow green, moving within a regenerating axolotl fingertip.
  — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2020
• Officials also explained that while head gills on both the lesser siren and axolotl are similar, the two salamanders are actually grouped into different families.
  — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 18 June 2018
• Other scientists did take up those investigations, however, and researchers’ salamander of choice became the axolotl.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 July 2018

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