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Figure 6

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

Figure 6

Pupa of stage P2. Overview (A) and detailed images of different optical sections (B - E) of the midgut of a pupa after excretion of the meconium (P2) by confocal laser scanning microscopy (for further information regarding the composition of the figure see legend of Fig. 1). Virtually all cells of the midgut harbor Blochmannia and the bacteria once more are present in cells with large and nucleoli-rich nuclei (e.g. white arrow in figure part 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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