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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 20.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Top Dev Biol. 2013;103:127–165. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-385979-2.00005-8

Figure 5.3.

Figure 5.3

Metamorphosis of the summer flounder Paralichthys dentatus. (A) Hatched yolk-sac larva. (B) Pretransformation larva before eye migration commences. (C) Early metamorphosis and the beginning of eye migration. (D) Mid-metamorphosis. (E) Metamorphic climax, right eye has migrated over the dorsal midline. (F) Young juvenile. Left column in B–D shows the migration of the eye across the skull; migrating right eye is shaded in gray. Rightmost column shows whole-body morphological changes at each stage. Images reprinted with permission from (Martinez & Bolker, 2003)