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Figure 1


Fig. 1. (A) Light microscopy image of whiting sickle cells sampled immediately after capture of fish by hook and line. (B) Sickle cell fraction in rainbow trout (N=8), common carp (N=5) and whiting (N=5) red blood cells (RBCs) immediately after being caught by hook and line, in freshly sampled whiting RBCs after recovery in the holding tank for 24 h or more than one week (N=4 and 8, respectively) and in washed RBCs after 16–24 h storage (N=12). Small light microscopy images show the appearance of representative cells from the column immediately below. In A and B, scale bars correspond to 10 µm, {blacktriangledown} shows examples of cells with granular texture and {blacktriangleup} shows examples of cells with visible bars. In B, * indicates significant difference (P<0.05) from value for whiting immediately after being caught. Values are means ± s.d.