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Figure 10.
Frequency distributions of blood cell area of the spontaneously metamorphosing
Japanese fl ounder at different developmental stages. Premet., premetamorphosis; Promet.,
prometamorphosis; P.-CL., post climax; Juv., juvenile; N, number of total blood cells counted.
[From Miwa and Inui, 1991, with permission].
area of erythrocytes in blood-smear preparations. Figure 10 shows the
distribution of erythrocyte cell area at different stages of metamorphosis. In
pre- and prometamorphic larvae, the erythrocyte population is dominated
by large cells, which are apparently larval type erythrocytes. At climax, in
