Ultrastructural and contractile activation properties of crustacean muscle fibres over the moult cycle

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 333-345

  West, Jan M ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contractile properties; Crayfish; Crustacean; Lobster; Moult cycle; Muscle; Muscle atrophy; Muscle growth; Skinned fibre; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

MUSCLE PROTEIN;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CRAB; CRAYFISH; CRUSTACEA; LOBSTER; MOLTING; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBRIL; MUSCLE GROWTH; MUSCLE MASS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMERE LENGTH; SKINNED MUSCLE FIBER; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ASTACOIDEA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 0030769482     PISSN: 03050491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0491(96)00330-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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