Table 1.
Common name | Species name | Counting frame size (μm) | Sampling grid size (μm) | Cut thickness (μm) | Average mounted thickness (μm) | Vertical guard zones (top and bottom, percentage) | Section interval | Number of sampling sites | Average CE (Gundersen, M = 0) | Average CE (Gundersen, M = 1) | |||||||||
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AC | OC | AC | OC | AC | OC | AC | OC | AC | OC | ||||||||||
Neurons | Glia | Neurons | Glia | Neurons | Glia | Neurons | Glia | ||||||||||||
Domestic pig | Sus scrofa | 80 × 80 | 1050 × 1050 | 50 | 50 | 11.8 | 11.7 | 0.01 | 2 | 112 | 43 | 0.08 | 0.06 | 0.14 | 0.15 | 0.07 | 0.03 | 0.10 | 0.05 |
Nubian ibex | Capra nubiana | 80 × 80 | 1050 × 1050 | 50 | 50 | 10.1 | 9.3 | 0.01 | 2 | 116 | 56 | 0.14 | 0.04 | 0.14 | 0.11 | 0.08 | 0.04 | 0.10 | 0.05 |
Springbok | Antidorcas marsupialis | 80 × 80 | 1050 × 1050 | 50 | 50 | 7.7 | 7.9 | 0.01 | 2 | 81 | 108 | 0.10 | 0.07 | 0.08 | 0.06 | 0.08 | 0.04 | 0.07 | 0.03 |
Arabian oryx | Oryx leucoryx | 80 × 80 | 1050 × 1050 | 50 | 50 | 11.2 | 9.4 | 0.01 | 2 | 82 | 81 | 0.11 | 0.09 | 0.15 | 0.10 | 0.09 | 0.04 | 0.09 | 0.04 |
Blue wildebeest | Connochaetes taurinus | 80 × 80 | 1050 × 1050 | 50 | 50 | 9.7 | 8.9 | 0.01 | 2 | 121 | 116 | 0.08 | 0.07 | 0.08 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.03 | 0.05 | 0.03 |
African buffalo | Syncerus caffer | 80 × 80 | 1050 × 1050 | 50 | 50 | 12.1 | 11.5 | 0.01 | 2 | 130 | 95 | 0.10 | 0.08 | 0.11 | 0.06 | 0.07 | 0.03 | 0.08 | 0.03 |
Dromedary camel | Camelus dromedarius | 80 × 80 | 1050 × 1050 | 50 | 50 | 12.4 | 7.8 | 0.01 | 2 | 57 | 54 | 0.20 | 0.15 | 0.17 | 0.12 | 0.11 | 0.05 | 0.11 | 0.05 |
Nyala | Tragelaphus angasii | 80 × 80 | 1050 × 1050 | 50 | 50 | 8.3 | 9.0 | 0.01 | 2 | 99 | 82 | 0.11 | 0.07 | 0.09 | 0.08 | 0.08 | 0.04 | 0.09 | 0.03 |
River hippopotamus | Hippopotamus amphibius | 80 × 80 | 1050 × 1050 | 50 | 50 | 8.3 | 9.0 | 0.01 | 2 | 135 | 121 | 0.12 | 0.09 | 0.12 | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.03 | 0.09 | 0.09 |
Giraffe | Giraffa camelopardalis | 80 × 80 | 1050 × 1050 | 50 | 50 | 12.1 | 10.4 | 0.01 | 2 | 86 | 122 | 0.11 | 0.12 | 0.14 | 0.10 | 0.07 | 0.04 | 0.06 | 0.04 |
Harbour porpoise | Phocoena phocoena | 80 × 80 | 1050 × 1050 | 50 | 50 | 8.4 | 10.6 | 0.01 | 2 | 153 | 137 | 0.09 | 0.07 | 0.09 | 0.07 | 0.06 | 0.03 | 0.06 | 0.03 |
Minke whale | Balaenoptera acutorostratus | 80 × 80 | 1050 × 1050 | 50 | 50 | 11.6 | 11.1 | 0.01 | 2 | 139 | 163 | 0.14 | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.11 | 0.09 | 0.03 | 0.07 | 0.03 |