. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Mar 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Struct Biol. 2007 Sep 29;161(3):298–313. doi: 10.1016/j.jsb.2007.09.015

Table 2.

A comparative summary of quantitative data derived for mitochondria in ribbon01 and ribbon02

	ribbon01	ribbon02
Total number of mitochondria	249	168
Number of branched mitochondria	26 (10%)	10 (6%)
Mean number of branches per branched mitochondria	1.38	1.1
Mean length of non-branched mitochondria ^a,^b	2300 ± 107 nm	1170 ± 86 nm
Mean diameter of non-branched mitochondria	304 ± 2.8 nm	296 ± 3.18 nm
Mean length of branched mitochondria	5870 ± 468 nm	4320 ± 635 nm
Mean diameter of branched mitochondria	297 ± 4.0 nm	280 ± 7.2 nm
Estimated total volume of all mitochondria	49 µm³	21 µm³
Estimated membrane SA of all mitochondria	635 µm²	301 µm²

Results are expressed as mean ± SEM

indicates a significant difference in the length of branched mitochondria in ribbon01 versus ribbon02 (p < 0.0005)