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The fine structure of the retina was studied using light and electron microscopy.
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The eye is of the typical fused-rhabdomere, eucone, apposition type, with no unusual features or specializations.
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Each ommatidium consists of a distal dioptric apparatus with cornea and four cells forming the crystalline cone. Proximal to this is a retina composed of eight retinula cells. Each ommatidium is surrounded distally by two primary pigment cells and proximally by several accessory pigment cells.
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All retinula cells are similar and contribute to the rhabdom.
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In the light-adapted state, retinula cell screening pigment particles congregate around the rhabdom, contrasting with the dark-adapted state where a palisade separates the screening pigment from the rhabdom.
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Butler, R. The anatomy of the compound eye ofPeriplaneta americana L.. J. Comp. Physiol. 83, 239–262 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00693677
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