ommatidium collectively form a light guide, a transparent tube, called the rhabdom. Although composed of over 16,000 cells, the Drosophila compound eye is...

typical apposition eye has a lens focusing light from one direction on the rhabdom, while light from other directions is absorbed by the dark wall of the...

rhabdom which is similar in function to a human retina. These butterflies do not have the specific lateral filtering pigments coating their rhabdom found...

a "giant rhabdom" in the lowest layer of the center of the retina. Only the light entering along its optic axis stimulates this giant rhabdom, so the visual...

cryptonephric Malpighian tubules of the normal type, a cone ommatidium with open rhabdom, and lack of functional spiracles on the eighth abdominal segment. Constituent...

typical apposition eye has a lens focusing light from one direction on the rhabdom, while light from other directions is absorbed by the dark wall of the...

retinula) that interlock with neighboring retinular cells. This forms the rhabdom, which contains the dendrite of the eccentric cell, and may also contribute...

registered light angle, and the extent to which the signal of individual rhabdoms are neurally combined. This implies that lenses need to be larger under...

retrospective, retrovirus rhabd- rod Greek ῥάβδος (rhábdos) Rhabdodon, rhabdoid, rhabdom, rhabdomancy, rhabdomyolysis, rhabdomyosarcoma rhach-, rach- spine Greek...

embedded in histological Araldite used by Nilsson et al. (2012) to measure rhabdom diameter (5–6 μm). December 2006 off Suzu-shi, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan...