Dear Valerie,
I have done some work on the morphology of the gut of Sardina pilchardus
larvae in relation to starvation. It is published in Spanish and
Portuguese journals (in english). If you are interested send me an e-mail
and I can forward the papers to you by mail. Good luck for your work.
Alexandra Silva

Valerie Sarpedonti wrote:

> Hi;
> I'm planning to do some histological study on the gut of Engraulididae
> larvae (around 6mm body length).
> Does anyone know what's the best way to preserve the larvae before the
> histological work?
> Secondly, has anyone done some work relating the
> length and morphology of Clupeids gut larvae to their alimentation?
>
> Thanks
> Valerie
>
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