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Fig. 3

From: The tymbal muscle of cicada has flight muscle-type sarcomeric architecture and protein expression

Fig. 3

X-ray diffraction patterns of the flight and tymbal muscles of Meimuna oparifera. (a) and (b), DLM; (c) and (d), tymbal muscle; (e) and (f), tensor muscle. a, c and e were recorded in the relaxed state, and b, d and f, rigor state. Blue arrow, equatorial reflections; green arrow, first myosin/actin layer line reflection, magenta arrows, actin layer line reflections. The scale on the right of A represents the d-spacing in nm. Note that in rigor, the actin layer lines are enhanced, and the first myosin/actin layer line is finely lattice-sampled in flight and tymbal muscles but not in tensor

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