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Fig. 2 in Conservation status and bio-ecology of Brycon orbignyanus (Characiformes: Bryconidae), an endemic fish species from the Paraná River basin (Brazil) threatened with extinction
Fig. 2. Abundance (captures per unit of effort – CPUE) of Brycon orbignyanus observed in the Upper Paraná River floodplain in different years (1986 to 1988, 1992 to 1994 and 2000 to 2010) and subsystems (Paraná, Baía and Ivinhema).
Fig. 4 in Conservation status and bio-ecology of Brycon orbignyanus (Characiformes: Bryconidae), an endemic fish species from the Paraná River basin (Brazil) threatened with extinction
Fig. 4. Ontogenetic variations in the diet of Brycon orbignyanus in the Upper Paraná River floodplain. FI = fish; AI = aquatic invertebrates; TI = terrestrial invertebrates; TP = terrestrial plants; AP = aquatic plants.
Fig. 1 in Conservation status and bio-ecology of Brycon orbignyanus (Characiformes: Bryconidae), an endemic fish species from the Paraná River basin (Brazil) threatened with extinction
Fig. 1. The locations of reservoirs from which the Brycon orbignyanus occurrence was evaluated and sites sampled throughout the Upper Paraná River floodplain (the Paraná, Baía and Ivinhema River subsystems).
Fig. 3 in Conservation status and bio-ecology of Brycon orbignyanus (Characiformes: Bryconidae), an endemic fish species from the Paraná River basin (Brazil) threatened with extinction
Fig. 3. Relationships between YOY abundance (CPUE) of Brycon orbignyanus and hydrological attributes observed in the Paraná and Ivinhema subsystems. a. Interrupted flood duration (days) (> 4.5 m Paraná River and> 2.75 m Ivinhema River), b. Uninterrupted flood duration (days).
Figures 4-5 from: Souza RCR, Pompeu PS (2020) Ecological separation by ecomorphology and swimming performance between two congeneric fish species. Zoologia 37: 1-8. https://doi.org/10.3897/zoologia.37.e47223
Figures 4-5 (4) Projection of the first two axes of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for the two species Characidium fasciatum and Characidium cf. zebra. (5) Relationship between RAPtF (Relative area of the pectoral fin) and the regression residuals between standard length (cm) and velocity (m/s) for both species Characidium fasciatum (C.fas) and Characidium cf. zebra (C.zeb).
Figures 2-3 from: Souza RCR, Pompeu PS (2020) Ecological separation by ecomorphology and swimming performance between two congeneric fish species. Zoologia 37: 1-8. https://doi.org/10.3897/zoologia.37.e47223
Figures 2-3 (2) Comparison between the relative velocities (length . s-1) obtained for each species of Characidium in the tests of swimming capacity. Middle point represents Median, Box value are the percentiles and the Whisker-value is minimum and maximum values. (3) Relation between standard length (cm) and velocity (m.s-1) for Characidium fasciatum (C.fas) and Characidium cf. zebra (C.zeb) species.
Data from: Assessing the efficacy and ecology of biocontrol and biomanipulation for managing invasive pest fish
1. Management of non-native species aims to prevent biological invasions using actions including control and containment of the potential invader. Biocontrol and biomanipulation strategies are used frequently to reduce population sizes of non-native species and reduce their ecological impacts and dispersal rates. 2. Assessments of the efficacy of biocontrol and biomanipulation actions for managing non-native pest fish, and the ecological mechanisms involved, were studied here using lentic populations of the invasive fish Pseudorasbora parva. Biocontrol was through release of the indigenous piscivorous fish Perca fluviatilis and biomanipulation through intensive fish removals. 3. A combined biocontrol and removal programme was completed in an invaded pond over two reproductive seasons. Almost 10 000 P. parva were removed, with cumulative removal numbers significantly related to their decreased abundance (>60 to <0·1 m−2). Ten adult P. fluviatilis were also released initially and reproduced each season. Analyses revealed P. parva contribution to P. fluviatilis diet was high initially, but decreased as P. parva abundance reduced. Individual contributions of the management actions to declined P. parva abundance were difficult to isolate. 4. The individual effects of biocontrol and removals on P. parva populations were then tested using a field trial in replicated pond mesocosms over three reproductive seasons. Replicates started with 1500 P. parva. The control (no interventions) revealed no significant temporal changes in P. parva abundances. In the removal treatment, where over 17 000 P. parva were removed per replicate over the trial, abundance declined initially, but increased significantly after each reproductive season as remaining fish compensated through increased reproductive output. In the biocontrol, abundance declined and remained low; analyses revealed P. parva were an important dietary component of larger P. fluviatilis, with predation suppressing compensatory responses. 5. Synthesis and applications. Biocontrol and removals can significantly reduce abundances of lentic populations of small invasive fishes. Removals provide short-term population suppression, but high effort is needed to overcome compensatory responses. Biocontrol can provide longer-term suppression but could invoke unintended ecological consequences via 'stocking-up' food webs. Application of these results to decision-making frameworks should enable managers to make more objective decisions on risk-commensurate methodologies for controlling small invasive fishes.
Data from: Species' ecological functionality alters the outcome of fish stocking success predicted by a food-web model
Fish stocking is used worldwide in conservation and management but its effects on food-web dynamics and ecosystem stability are poorly known. To better understand these effects and predict the outcomes of stocking, we used an empirically validated network model of a well-studied lake ecosystem. We simulate two stocking scenarios with two native fish species valuable for fishing. In the first scenario, we stock planktivorous fish (whitefish) larvae in the ecosystem. This leads to 1% increase in adult whitefish biomasses and decreases the biomasses of the top predator (perch). In the second scenario, we also stock perch larvae in the ecosystem. This decreases the planktivorous whitefish and the oldest top predator age class biomasses, and destabilizes the ecosystem. Our results demonstrate that the effects of stocking depend on the species' position in the food web and thus cannot be assessed without considering interacting species. We further show that stocking can lead to undesired outcomes from both management and conservation perspectives. The gains of stocking can remain minor and have adverse effects on the entire ecosystem.
Data from: Species-specific differences in adaptive phenotypic plasticity in an ecologically relevant trophic trait: hypertrophic lips in Midas cichlid fishes
The spectacular species richness of cichlids and their diversity in morphology, coloration, and behaviour have made them an ideal model for the study of speciation and adaptive evolution. Hypertrophic lips evolved repeatedly and independently in African and Neotropical cichlid radiations. Cichlids with hypertrophic lips forage predominantly in rocky crevices and it has been hypothesized that mechanical stress caused by friction could result in larger lips through phenotypic plasticity. To test the influence of the environment on the size and development of lips, we conducted a series of breeding and feeding experiments on Midas cichlids. Full-sibs of Amphilophus labiatus (thick-lipped) and A. citrinellus (thin-lipped) each were split into a control group which was fed food from the water column and a treatment group whose food was fixed to substrates. We found strong evidence for phenotypic plasticity on lip area in the thick-lipped species, but not in the thin-lipped species. Intermediate phenotypic values were observed in hybrids from thick- and thin-lipped species reared under "control" conditions. Thus, both a genetic, but also a phenotypic plastic component is involved in the development of hypertrophic lips in Neotropical cichlids. Moreover, species-specific adaptive phenotypic plasticity was found, suggesting that plasticity is selected for in recent thick-lipped species.
Data from: Ecological constraints coupled with deep-time habitat dynamics predict the latitudinal diversity gradient in reef fishes
We develop a spatially explicit model of diversification based on paleohabitat to explore the predictions of four major hypotheses potentially explaining the latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG), namely, the 'time-area', 'tropical niche conservatism', 'ecological limits' and 'evolutionary speed' hypotheses. We compare simulation outputs to observed diversity gradients in the global reef fish fauna. Our simulations show that these hypotheses are non-mutually exclusive and that their relative influence depends on the time scale considered. Indeed, simulations suggest that reef habitat dynamics produced the LDG during deep geological time, while ecological constraints shaped the modern LDG, with a strong influence of the reduction in the latitudinal extent of tropical reefs during the Neogene. Overall, this study illustrates how mechanistic models in ecology and evolution can provide a temporal and spatial understanding of the role of speciation, extinction and dispersal in generating contemporary biodiversity patterns.
Data from: Genomic architecture of ecologically divergent body shape in a pair of sympatric crater lake cichlid fishes
Determining the genetic bases of adaptations and their roles in speciation are prominent issues in evolutionary biology. Cichlid fish species flocks are a prime example of recent rapid radiations often associated with adaptive phenotypic divergence from a common ancestor within a short period of time. In several radiations of freshwater fishes divergence in eco-morphological traits including body shape, color, lips and jaws, are thought to underlie their ecological differentiation, specialization and – ultimately – speciation. The Midas cichlid species complex (Amphilophus spp.) of Nicaragua provides one of the few known examples of sympatric speciation where species have rapidly evolved different but parallel morphologies in young crater lakes. This study identified significant QTL for body shape, using SNPs generated via ddRAD sequencing and geometric morphometric analyses of a cross between two ecologically and morphologically divergent, sympatric cichlid species endemic to crater Lake Apoyo: an elongated limnetic species (A. zaliosus) and a high-bodied benthic species (A. astorquii). A total of 453 genome-wide informative SNPs were identified in 240 F2 hybrids. These markers were used to construct a genetic map in which 25 linkage groups were resolved. Seventy-two segregating SNPs were linked to 11 QTL. By annotating the two most highly supported QTL-linked genomic regions, genes that might contribute to divergence in body shape along the benthic-limnetic axis in Midas cichlid sympatric adaptive radiations were identified. These results suggest that few genomic regions of large effect contribute to early-stage divergence in Midas cichlids.
Data from: Changes in sexual signals are greater than changes in ecological traits in a dichromatic group of fishes
Understanding the mechanisms by which phenotypic divergence occurs is central to speciation research. These mechanisms can be revealed by measuring differences in traits that are subject to different selection pressures; greater influence of different types of selection can be inferred from greater divergence in associated traits. Here, we address the potential roles of natural and sexual selection in promoting phenotypic divergence between species of snubnose darters by comparing differences in body shape, an ecologically relevant trait, and male color, a sexual signal. Body shape was measured using geometric morphometrics, and male color was measured using digital photography and visual system-dependent color values. Differences in male color are larger than differences in body shape across 8 allopatric, phylogenetically independent species pairs. While this does not exclude the action of divergent natural selection, our results suggest a relatively more important role for sexual selection in promoting recent divergence in darters. Variation in the relative differences between male color and body shape across species pairs reflects the continuous nature of speciation mechanisms, ranging from ecological speciation to speciation by sexual selection alone.
Data from: Heterospecific aggression and dominance in a guild of coral-feeding fishes: the roles of dietary ecology and phylogeny
Interspecific competition mediates biodiversity maintenance and is an important selective pressure for evolution. Competition is often conceptualized as being exploitative (indirect) or involving direct interference. However, most empirical studies are phenomenological, focusing on quantifying effects of density manipulations, and most competition theory has characterized exploitation competition systems. The effects on resource use of traits associated with direct, interference competition has received far less attention. Here we examine the relationships of dietary ecology and phylogeny to heterospecific aggression in a guild of corallivorous reef fishes. We find that, among chaetodontids (butterflyfishes), heterospecific aggression depends on a synergistic interaction of dietary overlap and specialization: aggression increases with dietary overlap for interactions between specialists but not for interactions involving generalists. Moreover, behavioral dominance is a monotonically increasing function of dietary specialization. The strong, positive relationship of dominance to specialization suggests that heterospecific aggression may contribute to the maintenance of biodiversity where it promotes resource partitioning. Additionally, we find strong phylogenetic signals in dietary overlap and specialization but not behavioral dominance. Our results support the use of phylogeny as a proxy for ecological similarity among butterflyfishes, but we find that direct measures of dietary overlap and specialization predict heterospecific agression much better than phylogeny.
Data from: Refining the trophic diversity, ecological network structure, and bottom-up importance of prey groups for temperate reef fishes
<p>The file "Zarco-Perello et al Temperate Reef Fish Trophic Guilds Complete Diet Dataset.xlsx" contains several spreadsheet tabs related to the analyses carried out in the paper: <i><strong>Refining the trophic diversity, ecological network structure, and bottom-up importance of prey groups for temperate reef fishes: </strong></i><a href="https://doi.org/10.32942/X2CC97">https://doi.org/10.32942/X2CC97</a></p><p>All analyses, with the exception of the network calculations, of the study were carried out in the computer software R. The code is contained in the file "Zarco-Perello et al Temperate Reef Fish Trophic Ecology.R". For trophic network analyses we used the computer program Gephi v0.1 <a href="https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=15257446&amp;pre=&amp;suf=&amp;sa=0">(Bastian et al. 2009).</a></p><p><strong>DATASET DESCRIPTION</strong></p><p><strong>Region of Study</strong></p><p>The region of study encompasses all the temperate reefs of south-western Australia (SWA). Extending along ~1600 km of coast, from Jurien Bay Marine Park (30° 18.6 S, 115° 0.1 E) to the Recherche Archipelago Nature Research (33° 53.7 S, 123° 52.3 E; supplementary Fig. S1), the temperate reefs of SWA are distributed across the Leeuwin and Houtman biogeographical ecoregions <a href="https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=1796477&pre=&suf=&sa=0">(Spalding et al. 2007)</a>, conforming approximately ⅓ of the total distribution of temperate Australia, known as the Great Southern Reef <a href="https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=4498783&pre=&suf=&sa=0">(Bennett et al. 2016).</a></p><p><strong>Species Composition</strong></p><p>The species composition of the metacommunity of temperate reef fishes of the region was obtained from a total of 4589 underwater visual surveys conducted across 206 reefs in 12 locations by the Reef Life Survey (RLS) citizen science program, and the Australian Temperate Reef Collaboration (ATRC, with support from the Department of Biodiversity Conservation and Attractions; https://www.atrc.au) from 1997 to 2021.</p><p><strong>Trophic Information</strong></p><p>All fish species listed in the RLS-ATRC database were classified in trophic guilds based on collected diet information from studies of gut content analyses in SWA, or other Australian and international regions in the absence of local information. A total of 298 fish species composed the metacommunity. For every species, we obtained diet information from the scientific literature reported on Fishbase <a href="https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10423542&pre=&suf=&sa=0">(Froese and Pauly 2019)</a> and through the search engine Scopus using the search terms: TS = (<i>name of species</i>* OR *<i>common name of species</i>*) AND TS = (diet OR *stomach content* OR *gut content* OR consump* OR herbi* OR predat* OR feeding). Diet information consisted of the average proportions of food items represented as the number of items (%N), percent volume (%V), or biomass (%W) in a population of each species. Preference was given to diet studies conducted in the region of study and those presenting biomass proportions. Species that lacked diet information globally were assigned diet proportions based on phylogenetically related species with similar size and habitat preferences based on the Fish Tree of Life <a href="https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=10720381&pre=&suf=&sa=0&dbf=0">(Chang et al. 2019)</a>.</p><p><i><< The tab "Guilds Complete Diet Dataset" contains all the diet information (stomach content proportions) and its sources for all fish species considered in the study >></i></p><p><strong>Trophic guilds classification</strong></p><p>To quantify the diversity of trophic guilds and identify important fish consumers of specific groups of prey, we classified the fish species into trophic guilds performing a multi-step cluster analysis. Firstly, species were grouped into main trophic guilds using the mutually exclusive major categories of prey items. The diet proportions in these categories were used to create a dissimilarity matrix among species based on the Bray-Curtis linkage method using the function <i>vegdist</i> of the R package Vegan <a href="https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=7457489&pre=&suf=&sa=0">(Oksanen et al. 2022)</a>, which was used to run a sequential divisive hierarchical cluster analysis using the function <i>diana</i> (divisive analysis) of the R package Cluster <a href="https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=15165291&pre=&suf=&sa=0">(Maechler et al. 2022)</a>. Subsequently, because there are mismatches in the resolution of diet identification between species belonging to different trophic levels (<i>e.g.</i> the diets of herbivorous fish tend to have higher resolution on macrophytes, while carnivorous species tend to have higher resolution on animal prey), species within each identified main trophic guild were subject to a cluster analysis with higher definition of prey items to identify groups of species with diet specializations using sequential agglomerative hierarchical cluster analysis based on Ward's Method and Bray-Curtis or Euclidean dissimilarity matrix <a href="https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=205080&pre=&suf=&sa=0">(Pineda‑Munoz and Alroy 2014)</a>.</p><p>The stomach content of most scarid species (parrotfish; Labridae: Scarinae) is very difficult to identify due to their pharyngeal mill, which grinds all food items to indiscernible particles. However, they are well identified as a special group that ingest detritus and algae by scraping the reef substrate with their specialized fused teeth. Thus, for the sake of differentiating their trophic guild, the proportions of diet for species of parrotfish was arbitrarily defined based on field observations as sediment and detritus (90%) and short filamentous algae (10%) <a href="https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=11332249&pre=&suf=&sa=0&dbf=0">(Bonaldo et al. 2014)</a>. Additionally, cleaner fish and false cleaners are a special group of fishes that are difficult to group by diet given that they feed on prey that could be identified as zooplankton or zoobenthos, while in fact true cleaners forage, at least in part, on parasitic invertebrates attached to bigger fish, in addition to fish skin and scales <a href="https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=13921938&pre=&suf=&sa=0">(Grutter 1997)</a>; thus, given their particular trophic ecology these labrid and blenny species were arbitrarily grouped in the major trophic group "fish cleaners" for the subsequent specialized trophic group classifications.</p><p>Visual analysis of the differences in multidimensional space between trophic guilds was done with Non-metric Multidimensional Scaling based on the dissimilarity matrix calculated for clustering using the function <i>metaMDS</i> of the R package vegan (reported in supplementary materials; <a href="https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=7457489&pre=&suf=&sa=0">(Oksanen et al. 2022)</a>. Statistical significance in dietary differences among major and specialized trophic guilds (diet proportions ~ trophic guilds) was tested with permutational analysis of variance (PERMANOVA) using the function <i>adonis2 </i>of the R package vegan <a href="https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=7457489&pre=&suf=&sa=0">(Oksanen et al. 2022)</a>, followed by pairwise comparisons using the function <i>pairwise.adonis2</i> of the R package pairwiseAdonis <a href="https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=15190336&pre=&suf=&sa=0">(Martinez 2017)</a>.</p><p><i><< The tabs in the dataset called "Major Guilds Diet Data", "Herbivores Diet Data", "Cleaners Diet Data", "Zoobenthivores Diet Data, "Zooplanktivores Diet Data", and "Piscivores Diet Data" are the datasets with selected diet categories for each guild without "unidentified diet items" and standardized to 100 proportion which were used for the classification of each major trophic guild into specialized trophic guilds. >></i></p><p><strong>Trophic Network Links Between Specialized Guilds</strong></p><p>The trophic links between fishes and their invertebrate and macrophyte prey groups were identified by our trophic guild classification (Other Guilds Links tab in dataset); however, the trophic role of piscivores is faced with what here we called a "matrioshka paradox", because to know their links with other guilds, we must first know the trophic links of their prey. Moreover, this is not straightforward because the highest taxonomic identification of piscivorous prey is usually limited to family level, which could belong to multiple trophic guilds. This paradox is usually not explicitly stated in the literature, and it is unclear how trophic links have been drawn in previous studies without performing detailed quantitative trophic classifications. Here we estimated the trophic links between piscivorous guilds and the rest of fish guilds by (i) assigning each fish family identified in the diets of piscivorous fishes into their respective specialized guilds based in our trophic classification, (ii) pooling their diet proportions into each specialized trophic guilds they could belong to, (iii) standardizing values by number of species in each piscivorous guild, and (iv) dividing by the total sum of diet proportions to estimate their potential predation (0-100%) on other trophic guilds in the trophic network. Trophic links that had pooled diet proportions with values <5% were discarded for clarity of the network (Piscivores Trophic Links tab in dataset). This information was joined with the trophic information from non-piscivorous trophic guilds and formatted as a list of nodes (guilds and prey groups), and links between nodes (source-target) to create the trophic network of the entire temperate reef fish metacommunity (Nodes Network List and Edges Network Lisk tabs in dataset). All network analyses were done using the computer program for network visualization and analyzes Gephi v0.1 <a href="https://sciwheel.com/work/citation?ids=15257446&pre=&suf=&sa=0">(Bastian et al. 2009)</a>.</p><p><i><< The tabs "Piscivores Trophic Links" and "Other Guilds Links" are datasets containing the calculations of the links between specialized trophic links for Piscivores and other guilds respectively used to create the data of the tabs "Nodes Network List" and "Edges Network List" to create the trophic network of the system of study. >></i></p><p><i><< The tab "Herbivory, Omnivory and Carnivory" contains diet proportion data of all fish species of the study formated to build the barplot (Fig. 4) in the manuscript showing the distribution of consumption of macrophytes, invertebrates and fishes >></i></p><p> </p>
Supplementary material 1 from: Dickey JWE, Arnott G, McGlade CLO, Moore A, Riddell GE, Dick JTA (2022) Threats at home? Assessing the potential ecological impacts and risks of commonly traded pet fishes. NeoBiota 73: 109-136. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.73.80542
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Supplementary material 3 from: Dickey JWE, Arnott G, McGlade CLO, Moore A, Riddell GE, Dick JTA (2022) Threats at home? Assessing the potential ecological impacts and risks of commonly traded pet fishes. NeoBiota 73: 109-136. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.73.80542
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Supplementary material 2 from: Dickey JWE, Arnott G, McGlade CLO, Moore A, Riddell GE, Dick JTA (2022) Threats at home? Assessing the potential ecological impacts and risks of commonly traded pet fishes. NeoBiota 73: 109-136. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.73.80542
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Novel trophic subsidies from recreational angling transform the trophic ecology of freshwater fishes
<p>Angling is a globally popular leisure activity. There are over 31 million anglers in Europe, many of which target species of the Cyprinidae family in lowland freshwater ecosystems using methods generally involving bait (e.g. groundbaits, seeds and pellets), with large bait inputs possible in periods of high angling activity. While these bait inputs act as novel trophic subsidies ('angling subsidy'), substantial knowledge gaps remain on their influence on freshwater food-webs, including on fish trophic niche size and position. The effects of angling subsidies on the trophic ecology of cyprinid fish populations and their macroinvertebrate prey resources were investigated in field studies comparing waters of high angling activity ('subsidised fisheries') versus low angling activity ('non-subsidised fisheries'), and complemented by a pond experiment using two cyprinid species in subsidy absence/presence. Methods were based on stable isotope analysis, with angling subsidies being δ13C enriched and, generally, δ15N depleted compared to macroinvertebrate prey resources. In the subsidised fisheries, while there were minimal influences of the baits on macroinvertebrate stable isotope values, the effects of the subsidies on all fish species were to substantially δ13C enrich and δ15N deplete their isotopic niches. However, patterns of inter-specific niche divergence remained similar between the species in subsidy presence. In the pond experiment, there was strong isotopic association between the two fish species and macroinvertebrate putative prey in subsidy absence. In treatments that then exposed both species to angling subsidies, their stable isotope values shifted to enriched δ13C. Synthesis and application: Where angling activity is high, angling baits can provide strong trophic subsidies to freshwater fish, but with minimal effects on other trophic levels. Their regular input into freshwaters can provide some substantial benefits for fish (e.g. increased growth rates) and fisheries (e.g. elevated carrying capacity, higher catch rates), but can also increase nutrient enrichment and potentially raise ethical and fish welfare concerns. Thus, in allowing the use of these baits, especially in relatively high quantities, managers must balance the benefits they can deliver to fish and fisheries versus the adverse effects their use can have on freshwater organisms and ecosystem functioning.</p>
Fig. 10 in Impact of ecotourism on the fish fauna of Bonito region (Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil): ecological, behavioural and physiological measures
Fig. 10. Temporal variation (mean and SEM) of cortisol levels in holding-water Moenkhausia bonita challenged with an intra-peritoneal injection of porcine ACTH. Triangles, darker line = ACTH; squares, lighter line = RINGER (control).
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