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Helen Sink
New York University

About this book

Muscles have multiple roles in organisms. These roles range from facilitating conscious and unconscious movement, to maintaining posture, stabilizing joints, generating body heat, and moving substances within the body. To successfully carry out these functions, each muscle must develop as the right muscle type in the right location, achieve and maintain appropriate size, possess a correctly ordered contractile apparatus, and be capable of responding to contraction?inducing stimuli. A fundamental question is: How does a muscle develop so that it possesses the properties required for correct functioning? This book reviews how the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, is being used to address this question. The different aspects of muscle development are considered from cellular, molecular and genetic viewpoints, and the text is supported by black/white and color illustrations. Muscle Development in Drosophilia will appeal to those studying muscle development and muscle biology in any organism.

Table of contents

1. An Introduction to Muscle Development in Drosophila
Helen Sink

2. The Muscle Pattern of Drosophila
Volker Hartenstein

3. Mesoderm Formation in the Drosophila Embryo
Noriko Wakabayashi-Ito and Y. Tony Ip

4. Development of the Cardiac Musculature
Rolf Bodmer

5. Development of the Somatic Gonad and Fat Bodies
Mark Van Doren

6. Development of the Larval Visceral Musculature
Hsiu-Hsiang Lee, Stephane Zaffran and Manfred Frasch

7. Development of the Larval Somatic Musculature
Ana Carmena and Mary Baylies

8. Muscle Morphogenesis: The Process of Embryonic Myoblast Fusion
Susan M. Abmayr and Kiranmai S. Kocherlakota

9. Muscle Attachment Sites: Where Migrating Muscles Meet Their Match
Talila Volk

10. Neuromuscular Development: Connectivity and Plasticity
Louise Nicholson and Haig Keshishian

11. Metamorphosis and the Formation of the Adult Musculature
Devkanya Dutta and K. VijayRaghavan

12. Molecular Basis of Muscle Structure
Jim O. Vigoreaux

13. Whole Genome Approaches to Studying Drosophila Muscle Development
Eileen E.M. Furlong

14. Comparison of Muscle Development in Drosophila and Vertebrates
Michael V. Taylor