Alterations in flight muscle ultrastructure and function in Drosophila tropomyosin mutants

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 673-687

  Kreuz, Andrew J ^a,c   Simcox, Amanda ^a   Maughan, David ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; PROLINE; TROPOMYOSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FLIGHT MUSCLE; HAPLOIDY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MALE; MUSCLE FIBRIL; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKINNED MUSCLE FIBER; VISCOSITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GENES, INSECT; HAPLOIDY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUTATION; MYOFIBRILS; TROPOMYOSIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029844404     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.135.3.673     Document Type: Article

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