Nature's Versatile Engine: Insect Flight Muscle Inside and Out
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Jim O. Vigoreaux
This book is co-published with Springer.
Please click here to purchase this book at the Springer site. ISBN: 978-0-387-25798-3 Pub date: 2005-11-15 288 pages 97 figures 16 tables 3 color pages |
Table of contentsForeword: A Naturalist’s View of Insect Flight Muscle Section I—Experimental Insect Flight Systems: Historical Contributions The Contributions of Genetics to the Study of Flight Muscle Function 3D Structure of Myosin Crossbridges in Insect Flight Muscle: Toward Visualization of the Conformations during Myosin Motor Action Comparative Physiology of Insect Flight Muscle Stretch Activation: Toward a Molecular Mechanism Section II—Components of the Myofibril Myosin Paramyosin and Miniparamyosin Novel Myosin Associated Proteins Structure of the Thick Filaments Actin and Arthrin Troponin, Tropomyosin and GST-2 The Thin Filiament in Insect Flight Muscle The Insect Z-Band Projectin, the Elastic Protein of the C-Filaments Some Functions of Proteins from the Drosophila sallimus (sls) Gene Section III—Towards a Systems Level Analysis of Muscle From the Outside In Sustained High Power Performance: Possible Strategies for Integrating Energy Supply and Demand in Flight Muscle X-Ray Diffraction of Indirect Flight Muscle from Drosophila in Vivo Functional and Ecological Effects of Isoform Variation in Insect Flight Muscle Muscle Systems Design and Integration From the Inside Out Molecular Assays for Acto-Myosin Interactions Insect Flight Muscle Chemomechanics Mapping Myofibrillar Protein Interactions by Mutational Proteomics |
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