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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurophysiol. 2006 Oct 4;97(1):159–177. doi: 10.1152/jn.00660.2006

TABLE 2.

Ellipsoid fits to dendritic field A and locust eyes

D-V Semi-Axis, μm M-L Semi-Axis, μm P-A semi-axis, μm lenML/lenDV lenAP/lenDV
lgmda 179 138 89 0.78 0.50
lgmdb 201 152 113 0.76 0.56
lgmdc 190 136 104 0.71 0.55
lgmdd 177 135 86 0.76 0.50
lgmde 178 124 93 0.70 0.52
Mean 185 ± 10 137 ± 10 97 ± 11 0.74 ± 0.03 0.52 ± 0.03
Eye1 1567 1144 901 0.73 0.57
Eye2 1505 1119 895 0.74 0.59
Eye3 1573 1156 976 0.74 0.62
Eye4 1722 1194 1026 0.69 0.60
Eye5 1585 1417 1013 0.89 0.64
Mean 1592 ± 81 1206 ± 118 964 ± 62 0.77 ± 0.08 0.60 ± 0.03

The semi-axes are dorso-ventral (DV), medial-lateral (ML), and anterior-posterior (AP) with respect to the animal. The ratios of ML to DV semi-axis length and AP to DV semi-axis length are in the last two columns. Means and SDs were averaged across cells and eyes.