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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Comp Neurol. 2013 Jun 1;521(8):1803–1816. doi: 10.1002/cne.23260

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Rod basal bodies are randomly positioned. (A) Basal bodies of rod photoreceptors within the mosaic of a dark-adapted retina. GFP immunoreactivity (red) labels rods in the XOPS-GFP line. γ-tubulin (yellow) localizes to basal bodies. Nuclei were stained with DAPI (blue). Autofluorescence at 488 nm (green) shows inner and outer segments. (B) Graphical analysis of rod basal bodies from an individual field of cells. The mean vector is indicated as a black arrow. (C) Plot showing the mean vectors from several individual fields of rods (small black diamonds) and the grand mean vector of these mean vectors (large black square). The optic nerve is up in all panels and all fields analyzed were from the middle or peripheral retina. Scale bars = 10 μm. Magenta-green copies are available in the Journal’s supplemental data figures.