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Image Gallery: Pores on the surface of the Hawaiian bobtail squid light organ
ID
7016
The light organ (~0.5 mm across) of a juvenile Hawaiian bobtail squid, Euprymna scolopes, stained blue. The two pairs of ciliated appendages, or “arms,” on the sides of the organ move Vibrio fischeri bacterial cells closer to the two sets of three pores at the base of the arms that each lead to an interior crypt. This image was taken using a confocal fluorescence microscope.
Related to images 7017, 7018, 7019, and 7020.
Related to images 7017, 7018, 7019, and 7020.
Source
Margaret J. McFall-Ngai, Carnegie Institution for Science/California Institute of Technology, and Edward G. Ruby, California Institute of Technology.
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