Variation in mesoderm specification across Drosophilids is compensated by different rates of myoblast fusion during body wall musculature development

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Belu, Mirela ^a   Mizutani, Claudia M ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; CELL COUNT; CELL EXPANSION; CELL FUSION; CELL KINETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EGG SIZE; EMBRYO; GENETIC CONSERVATION; LARVAL STAGE; MESODERM; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE FIBER CULTURE; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BODY SIZE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILIDAE; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; INNERVATION; LARVA; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE; NERVE FIBER; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

INSECT PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BLASTODERM; BODY PATTERNING; BODY SIZE; CELL COUNT; CELL FUSION; CELL NUCLEUS; DROSOPHILIDAE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; MESODERM; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLES; MYOBLASTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 83355168704     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028970     Document Type: Article

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