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  • 1888200832293894410047799347250218992PublicAssets/7018A light organ (~0.5 mm across) of a juvenile Hawaiian bobtail squid, <em>Euprymna scolopes</em>. Movement of cilia on the surface of the organ aggregates bacterial symbionts (green) into two areas above sets of pores that lead to interior crypts. This image was taken using a confocal fluorescence microscope. <Br><Br> Related to images <a href="https://images.nigms.nih.gov/pages/DetailPage.aspx?imageid2=7016">7016</a>, <a href="https://images.nigms.nih.gov/pages/DetailPage.aspx?imageid2=7017">7017</a>, <a href="https://images.nigms.nih.gov/pages/DetailPage.aspx?imageid2=7019">7019</a>, and <a href="https://images.nigms.nih.gov/pages/DetailPage.aspx?imageid2=7020">7020</a>. Margaret J. McFall-Ngai, Carnegie Institution for Science/California Institute of Technology, and Edward G. Ruby, California Institute of Technology.The labs of Margaret J. McFall-Ngai, Carnegie Institution for Science/California Institute of Technology, and Edward G. Ruby, California Institute of Technology.Photograph

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    A light organ (~0.5 mm across) of a juvenile Hawaiian bobtail squid, Euprymna scolopes. Movement of cilia on the surface of the organ aggregates bacterial symbionts (green) into two areas above sets of pores that lead to interior crypts. This image was taken using a confocal fluorescence microscope.

    Related to images 7016, 7017, 7019, and 7020.

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    Margaret J. McFall-Ngai, Carnegie Institution for Science/California Institute of Technology, and Edward G. Ruby, California Institute of Technology.

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    The labs of Margaret J. McFall-Ngai, Carnegie Institution for Science/California Institute of Technology, and Edward G. Ruby, California Institute of Technology.

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