Figure 2. Morphology of third instar haemocytes on various extra-cellular matrices.

(A) Adhering and spreading ability of third instar haemocytes on glass, gelatine, laminin and fibronectin. The captured cell provided, is the best representation of general haemocyte behaviour on each respective surface. (B) Each haemocyte was assigned a phenotype, which were created from commonly observed attributes between haemocytes from each surface for spreading. Haemocytes on glass were controls and produced a spread labelled as normal spread. Overall there were six phenotypes, normal spread, minor spread, extreme spread, non-polarised, polarised and spiky spread.