Fig. 5.

Mean fiber diameters in anaerobic white muscle of black sea bass with body masses ranging from 0.45 to 4840 g (N=16). The solid line represents a projected hypertrophic growth line (r.m.s.e.=41.68). Note that large fish (>2000 g) have mean diameters falling below the projected hypertrophic growth line and have a greater standard deviation due to the appearance of small fibers. The line is defined by the dependence of the diameter of a cylinder on its volume (M_b^1/3×b₁, where b₁=17.41). See Materials and methods for additional details. Data are means ± s.d. of the four size classes: very small (0.4–4 g), small (30–105 g), medium (282–1885 g) and large (2258–4840 g).