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From: Evolution of compound eye morphology underlies differences in vision between closely related Drosophila species

Fig. 1

Variation in eye size, ommatidia number, and ommatidia size across closely related D. mauritiana and D. simulans. Average eye size (mm2, circle area) of D. simulans (blue) and D. mauritiana (red) strains (circle labels) plotted against total ommatidia number and ommatidia facet area (in μm.2) for females (a) and males (b). D. mauritiana generally have larger eyes with more and larger ommatidia compared to D. simulans. Eye size was measured from side view scanning electron micrographs of single eyes. n = 11 for MS17 females and n = 15 for males and females of all other strains. Measurements provided in Fig. 1 morphological measurements.xlsx on figshare [29]

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