Response to ‘The spleen as an unlikely source of red blood cells during increased activity in fishes’

Abstract

We would like to thank Hedrick and colleagues for their thoughtful comments and for the opportunity to further elaborate on the splenic blood-boosting strategy of Pagothenia borchgrevinki ([Brijs et al., 2020][1]). [Hedrick et al. (2020)][2] argue that the reduction in spleen mass observed in our