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Table 1.

Wet mass, Cl^- content and Cl^- turnover rate in yolk balls incubated in balanced salt solution for 3 h and those incubated in freshwater and seawater for another 48 h

	BSS (0 h)	Freshwater (48 h)	Seawater (48 h)
Mass (mg)	4.6±0.1^{^a}	5.0±0.1^{^b}	4.1±0.2^{^c}
Total Cl^- content (μmol ball^-1)	—	180±15	163±19
Mass-specific Cl^- content (μmol mg^-1)	—	35.9±2.6	36.7±2.8
Cl^- turnover rate (% h^-1)	—	0.003±0.001	0.167±0.033^*

	BSS (0 h)	Freshwater (48 h)	Seawater (48 h)
Mass (mg)	4.6±0.1^{^a}	5.0±0.1^{^b}	4.1±0.2^{^c}
Total Cl^- content (μmol ball^-1)	—	180±15	163±19
Mass-specific Cl^- content (μmol mg^-1)	—	35.9±2.6	36.7±2.8
Cl^- turnover rate (% h^-1)	—	0.003±0.001	0.167±0.033^*

BSS, balanced salt solution.

a,b,c

Different superscript letters indicate significant differences(P<0.05; Tukey—Kramer post hoc test).

Significantly different from the values of freshwater yolk balls(P=0.0064; two-sample t-test).

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