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From: Bacteriocyte dynamics during development of a holometabolous insect, the carpenter ant Camponotus floridanus

Figure 2

Larva of stage L2. Overview (A) and detailed images of different optical sections (B - E) of the midgut of a C. floridanus larva (L2) by confocal laser scanning microscopy (for further information regarding the composition of the figure see legend of Fig. 1). The bacteriocytes are located in cell clusters of different size on the outer surface of the midgut (B, C) and the cells lining the midgut lumen are free of bacteria (D, E). Green label: The Blochmannia specific probe Bfl172-FITC; red label: SYTO Orange 83. The scale bars correspond to 220 μM (A) and 35 μM (B - E), respectively.

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