Fig. 11. Analysis of the sensitivity of (the coefficient of variation, defined as the ratio of s.d. over mean strain) for the normalized body curvature as a function of developmental time. For each combination of developmental time and , the lowest absolute value of was computed using Eqn 25. The lower the absolute values of , the better the strain uniformity in the examined muscle-fibre population. Values of are indicated at the right side of each curve. (A) Results for deformation type I and (B) type II. Black curves show the computation for the convex side of the fish, blue curves are for the concave side. Values of are hardly influenced by body curvature at the youngest stages (up to 15 days). The best uniformity is obtained for the strongest curvatures for the two oldest stages. The results are again very similar for the two deformation types.