Table 2 Equipment and software used for image acquisition and editing with respective figures

Nikon Optiphot-2 microscope* and CoolSNAP-Pro CF color digital camera^#

Image-Pro plus^#

2B, 2D, 3C–F, 5, S1

Nikon Eclipse E800 microscope and DMX-1200C digital camera*

ACT-1C*

2A, 2E

Zeiss LSM 510 UV META microscope^§

LSM 510 META^§

2F, 10, 16

Zeiss LSM 780 – NLO microscope^§

Zen 2010^§

34A–C

Pannoramic MIDI slide scanner ^¬

Pannoramic viewer 1.15.2 RTM ^¬

3B, 4, 6-9, 12-15, 17-32, 34D, S2, S3