Nature's Versatile Engine: Insect Flight Muscle Inside and Out

Jim O. Vigoreaux
University of Vermont

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ISBN: 978-0-387-25798-3
Pub Date: November 15, 2005
Pages: 288
Color Pages: 3
Figures: 97
Tables: 16

Table of Contents

Foreword: A Naturalist’s View of Insect Flight Muscle
Bernd Heinrich

Section I—Experimental Insect Flight Systems: Historical Contributions

The Contributions of Genetics to the Study of Flight Muscle Function
Richard M. Cripps

3D Structure of Myosin Crossbridges in Insect Flight Muscle: Toward Visualization of the Conformations during Myosin Motor Action
Mary C. Reedy

Comparative Physiology of Insect Flight Muscle
Robert K. Josephson

Stretch Activation: Toward a Molecular Mechanism
Jeffrey R. Moore

Section II—Components of the Myofibril

Myosin
Becky M. Miller and Sanford I. Bernstein

Paramyosin and Miniparamyosin
Margarita Cervera, Juan Jose Arredondo and Raquel Marco Ferreres

Novel Myosin Associated Proteins
Byron Barton and Jim O. Vigoreaux

Structure of the Thick Filaments
Gernot Beinbrech and Gereon Ader

Actin and Arthrin
John C. Sparrow

Troponin, Tropomyosin and GST-2
Alberto Ferrus

The Thin Filiament in Insect Flight Muscle
Kevin R. Leonard and Belinda Bullard

The Insect Z-Band
Judith D. Saide

Projectin, the Elastic Protein of the C-Filaments
Agnes Ayme-Southgate and Richard Southgate

Some Functions of Proteins from the Drosophila sallimus (sls) Gene
Belinda Bullard, Mark C. Leake and Kevin Leonard

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
Vivek Vishnudas and Jim O. Vigoreaux

X-Ray Diffraction of Indirect Flight Muscle from Drosophila in Vivo
Thomas C. Irving

Functional and Ecological Effects of Isoform Variation in Insect Flight Muscle
James H. Marden

Muscle Systems Design and Integration
Fritz-Olaf Lehmann

From the Inside Out

Molecular Assays for Acto-Myosin Interactions
John C. Sparrow and Michael A. Geeves

Insect Flight Muscle Chemomechanics
David Maughan and Douglas Swank

Mapping Myofibrillar Protein Interactions by Mutational Proteomics
Joshua A. Henkin and Jim O. Vigoreaux

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