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Acknowledgments 
We thank B. Roumillat of the South Carolina Depart- 
ment of Natural Resources (SCDNR), for his guidance 
developing the histology criteria and staging of ovar- 
ian samples, and J. Olney of the Virginia Institute of 
Marine Sciences (VIMS), for his help with design of, 
equipment for, and sorting of samples collected during 
the ichthyoplankton survey. We also thank members of 
the Estuarine Finfish Research Group at SCDNR who 
helped with data collection (J. Yost, M. Perkinson, and 
B. Renkas); P. Crewe (VIMS) and N. Sturgeon (College 
of Charleston) for sorting assistance; A. Williams and 
L. DiJoy (SCDNR) for providing second readings on 
histology slides; D. Knott (SCDNR) for providing sorting 
space; and C. Battey (NOAA) and K. Brenkert (SCDNR) 
for larval husbandry support. T. Darden, J. Leffler, and 
T. Smart (SCDNR), as well as 3 anonymous review- 
ers, provided helpful suggestions on the manuscript. 
This project was funded by the SCDNR. This article is 
contribution no. 386 of the Grice Marine Laboratory, 
College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, and 
contribution no. 693 of the South Carolina Department 
of Natural Resources. 
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