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1. An Introduction to Muscle Development in Drosophila 1 Helen Sink The Muscle Pattern of Drosophila 1 Mesoderm Formation in the Drosophila Embryo 3 Development of the Cardiac Musculature, Visceral Musculature, Somatic Gonad and Fat Bodies 3 Development of the Somatic Musculature 4 Metamorphosis and the Adult Musculature 6 Approaches to Studying Drosophila Muscle Development 7 2. The Muscle Pattern of Drosophila 8 Volker Hartenstein Somatic Musculature 8 The Somatic Musculature of the Drosophila Larva 10 Pattern of Thoracic and Abdominal Larval Muscles 10 Pattern of Muscles in the Larval Head and Tail 12 The Somatic Musculature of the Adult Fly 13 Pattern of Abdominal Muscles of the Adult Fly 13 Characteristics of the Thoracic Body Wall Muscles 15 Articulation of Legs and Wings with the Body Wall 16 General Bauplan of the Thoracic Musculature 16 Musculature of the Drosophila Legs and Wings 17 Musculature of the Thorax Other Than Wing and Leg Muscles 17 Musculature of the Head 19 Visceral Musculature 21 Visceral Musculature of the Foregut 21 Visceral Musculature of the Mid- and Hindgut 22 Circulatory System 22 Structure of the Drosophila Circulatory System 25 3. Mesoderm Formation in the Drosophila Embryo 28 Noriko Wakabayashi-Ito and Y. Tony Ip Establishment of Dorsal-Ventral Polarity during Oogenesis 29 The Toll Pathway in the Oocyte and Embryo 30 Zygotic Gene Activation and Mesoderm Specification 32 Mesoderm Invagination 33 4. Development of the Cardiac Musculature 38 Rolf Bodmer From Mesoderm to Heart Progenitors 40 Cardiac Lineages 40 Specification and Positioning of the Cardiac Mesoderm 42 Specification of Cardiac Cell Types 43 Hox Gene Function in the Heart 45 5. Development of the Somatic Gonad and Fat Bodies 51 Mark Van Doren Specification of the Fat Body and Somatic Gonad 51 Morphogenesis and Function of the Fat Body 54 Morphogenesis of the Gonad 55 6. Development of the Larval Visceral Musculature 62 Hsiu-Hsiang Lee, Stephane Zaffran and Manfred Frasch Morphogenesis and Functions of Trunk Visceral Mesoderm and Circular Midgut Muscles 65 Morphogenesis of Longitudinal Midgut, Foregut and Hindgut Muscles 65 Genetic and Molecular Mechanisms Controlling Visceral Mesoderm Development 67 7. Development of the Larval Somatic Musculature 79 Ana Carmena and Mary Baylies Allocation of Somatic Mesoderm-Mesodermal Subdivision 81 Birth of a Muscle Founder Cell 83 Integration of Signal Transduction Pathways during Muscle Progenitor Specification 86 Muscle Identity Is Regulated by Muscle Founder Identity Genes 86 A Molecular Definition of Muscle Founder Cell and Fusion-Competent Myoblasts 89 8. Muscle Morphogenesis: The Process of Embryonic Myoblast Fusion 92 Susan M. Abmayr and Kiranmai S. Kocherlakota Ultrastructure of the Adherent Myoblast Interface 93 Myoblast Recognition and Adhesion 94 Intracellular Events Associated with Myoblast Fusion 98 Other Genes with Roles in Myoblast Fusion 100 9. Muscle Attachment Sites-Where Migrating Muscles Meet Their Match 104 Talila Volk Determination of Epidermal Muscle-Attachment Precursors 104 The Guidance of the Muscle Towards Its Tendon Attachment Site 107 The Essential Role of Muscle Signaling in Tendon Cell Maturation 108 The Requirement for Muscle-Tendon Junctions for Proper Muscle Function 108 The Cytoplasmic Composition of the Muscle and Tendon Junctional Complexes 109 10. Neuromuscular Development: Connectivity and Plasticity 113 Louise Nicholson and Haig Keshishian Motoneuron Organization 113 Axonal Outgrowth 115 Target Selection 117 Establishing the Synapse 119 Neuromuscular Activity and Connectivity 120 11. Metamorphosis and the Formation of the Adult Musculature 125 Devkanya Dutta and K. VijayRaghavan Architecture of Adult Flight Muscles and Abdominal Muscles 125 Developmental Profile of Adult Muscles 127 Templates, Nerves, the Epidermis and Muscle Pattern 130 Vestigial, Cut and Apterous Impart Diversity within Thoracic Myoblasts and Canalize Them into Different Muscle Forming Pathways 131 Adult Founder Cells, Identified by Dumbfounded, Regulate Muscle Fiber-Number and Muscle Position 133 Antagonistic Activities of Notch and D-Mef2 Regulate Myoblast Proliferation versus Differentiation 133 Homeotic Identity Control Muscle Organization in Adult Thoracic Segments 135 Stripe-Expressing Muscle Attachment Sites-Their Specification and Differentiation 138 12. Molecular Basis of Muscle Structure 143 Jim O. Vigoreaux Structure and Composition of the Myofibril 143 Ultrastructure of Developing Myofibrils 145 Genetics of Myofibrillar Proteins 146 Thin Filament and Z Band Proteins 149 Myofibril Assembly 152 13. Whole Genome Approaches to Studying Drosophila Muscle Development 157 Eileen E.M. Furlong Transcriptome Analysis 158 Phenome Mapping 165 Localizome Mapping 165 Interactome Mapping 166 14. Comparison of Muscle Development in Drosophila and Vertebrates 169 Michael V. Taylor Overview of Drosophila Muscle Development 170 Overview of Vertebrate Muscle Development 171 Somatic/Skeletal Muscle Development 172 Heart Development in Drosophila and Vertebrates 187 Visceral Muscle Development 190 Index 205
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Drosophila -- Physiology.
Muscles -- Differentiation.
Drosophila melanogaster -- genetics.
Drosophila melanogaster -- growth & development.
Muscle Cells -- physiology.
Muscle Development -- physiology.