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Fig. 4 | Zoological Letters

Fig. 4

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

Fig. 4

Intensity profiles of the equatorial (a) and the first myosin/actin layer line (b) reflections, taken from the diffraction patterns from Meimuna oparifera in Fig. 3. In a, the red curve is the Gaussian fit of the 1,0 reflection after subtraction of the background, approximated as a single exponential decay function (gray). The blue curves (almost hidden underneath the red curves) are the observed intensity profile after subtraction of the background. The green curve is the residual remaining after the Gaussian fit of the 1,0 is further subtracted. The red vertical bar is the center of the Gaussian fit of the 1,0, and the blue and green vertical bars are the positions of the 1,1 and 2,0 reflections, respectively, calculated from the position of the 1,0 reflection. The leftmost peak is the edge of the beamstop. Note that the 2,0 reflection is much more intense than the 1,1 in flight and tymbal muscles except for the tensor

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