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. 2019 Dec 6;7:e8125. doi: 10.7717/peerj.8125

Table 2. Percent area of digestive gland sections occupied by tubuloacini, glandular cell types, and C and K corpuscles.

Results are expressed as mean percent area ± SEM. Different letters in the same row indicate statistically significant differences between species.

	*Pomacea canaliculata*	*Pomacea scalaris*	*Asolene platae*
Tubuloacini (%)	90.7 ± 0.9^a	85.1 ± 1.2^b	92.8 ± 0.9^a
Columnar cells (%)	53.7 ± 1.7^a	55.3 ± 1.6^a	56.3 ± 1.5^a
Pyramidal cells (%)	41.9 ± 1.5^a	39 ± 1.4^a	39.5 ± 1.4^a
C corpuscles (%)	12.3 ± 0.6^ab	11.4 ± 0.4^a	13.3 ± 0.5^b
K corpuscles (%)	11 ± 0.5^a	11.4 ± 0.8^a	11.2 ± 0.5^a