RESPONSES OF THE ALLIGATOR 695 



TABLE 2 



WHITE BLOOD CELL COUNTS AND PERCENTAGES OF 

 HEALTHY, UNINFECTED Alligator mississippiensis* 



Normal white blood cell count, 5.5 ± 1.3 X lO^'/mm"' 

 Differential, % 



Neutrophilic macrophages, 36.6 ± 9.2 



Eosinophils, 5.1 ± 3.4 



Basophils, 1.9 ± 2.6 



Monocytes, 4.0 ± 5.6 



Lymphocytes, 52.4 ± 10.7 

 Thrombocyte count, 2.3 ± 0.8 X lO^'/mm^ 



Cell size, 9.5 ± 1.6 ;U (N = 16) 



Thrombocyte nucleus (N = 12) 

 Long axis, 6.6 ± 0.9 

 Short axis, 4.8 + 1.2 



* Values are x ± standard deviation. Sample size (N) = 8 unless 

 otherwise noted. 



TABLE 3 



SIZES OF WHITE BLOOD CELLS (p) OF HEALTHY, 

 UNINFECTED Alligator mississippiensis"^ 



Lymphocytes (N = 15) 

 12.3 ± 2.3 



Lymphocyte nucleus 

 Long axis, 9.9 ± 2.1 

 Short axis, 7.3 ± 1.4 

 Neutrophilic macrophage (N = 45) 



15.3 ± 2.5 



Neutrophilic macrophage nucleus (N = 37) 

 Long axis, 7.0 ± 2.2 

 Short axis, 5.1 ± 1.6 

 Eosinophil (N = 8) 



12.4 ± 2.3 



Eosinophil nucleus (N = 7) 



Long axis, 7.3 ± 2.8 



Short axis, 3.9 ±0.9 

 Basophil (N = 7) 

 11.6 ± 2.2 

 Basophil nucleus (N = 6) 



5.4 ±0.9 



*Values are x ± standard deviation. N = sample size. 



