Fig. 5: Quantitative analysis of the symbiotic partners in 3D.

a The length and b diameter distributions of the mitochondria of n = 4 wild-type and n = 2 aposymbiotic oocytes. In each box plot, the center line indicates the median, the edges of the box represent the first and third quartiles, and the whiskers extend to span a 1.5 interquartile range from the edges. c Solidity [i.e., the ratio of the actual volume (with cavities) to the convex hull (cavities closed) volume] is taken as a descriptor of the morphologic changes in mitochondria of vitellogenic oocytes. d The solidity distribution of the wild-type mitochondria (n = 4) per number of hosted bacteria showed a decrease in solidity upon the presence and increasing number of bacteria. Violin plots, are colored according to categories indicated, and the centrelines indicate 25-75th percentiles, median, and whiskers of minima to maxima, and the width of the violin plot shows the frequency distribution of the data e The distribution of the angles between the mitochondrial surface and the long bacterial axis. The angle is zero when they are parallel, and approaches to 90° as bacteria become perpendicular to mitochondrial surface. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.