Transcript Figure-7_02-COL.ppt

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Figure 2. Orientation of crustacean microvilli relative to outside world is maintained horizontal vertical. a)
Fiddler crab female Uca vomeris and inset close-up of fiddler crab eye (After Zeil). Note although body is
tilted, eyes remain vertical to local substrate. b) Light micrograph transverse section through equatorial R1-7
rhabdoms of fiddler crab with insets showing enlarged single rhabdom (left) and diagrammatic representation
of single rhabdom (right) (After Alikaldi et al 2013 and Marshall et al 1991a). White arrows denote e-vector
sensitivity directions and microvillar directions.