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Acknowledgments 



We would like to thank the following people for their 

 help: Debbie Blood, Ric Brodeur, Jay Clark, Nazila 

 Merati, and Matt Wilson for spawning walleye pol- 

 lock and bringing the eggs back to Seattle; Annette 

 Brown and Stella Spring for assistance rearing the 

 larvae; Frank Morado and Linda Cherepow for pro- 

 viding assistance during the histological phase of this 

 sttidy. Kevin Bailey, Ail Kendall, Mike Canino, Frank 

 Morado, and anonymous reviewers provided helpful 

 comments on drafts of this manuscript. The Univer- 

 sity of Washington, Friday Harbor Laboratory, pro- 

 vided aquarium space in 1991. 



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