Do the rhabdomeric structures in bees and flies really twist?

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 1979 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Journal of Comparative Physiology ? A, volume 134, pages 109-112 (issn: 0340-7594, eissn: 1432-1351,

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Authors: Ribi, W.;

doi: 10.1007/bf00610468

handle: 21.11116/0000-0006-81B0-0

Do the rhabdomeric structures in bees and flies really twist?

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Electron microscopic observations following careful tissue treatment show that the microvilli in visual cells of both the bee and the fly do not twist (Figs. 1 and 2). Theories of how bees analyse polarized light are reexamined in the light of this finding.

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