Table of Contents:
  • An introduction to muscle development in drosophila / Helen Sink
  • The muscle pattern of drosophila / Volker Hartenstein
  • Mesoderm formation in the drosophila embryo / Noriko Wakabayashi-Ito and Y. Tony Ip
  • Development of the cardiac musculature / Rolf Bodmer
  • Development of the somatic gonad and fat bodies / Mark Van Doren
  • Development of the larval visceral musculature / Hsiu-Hsiang Lee, Stephane Zaffran and Manfred Frasch
  • Development of the larval somatic musculature / Ana Carmena and Mary Baylies
  • Muscle morphogenesis: the process of embryonic myoblast fusion / Susan M. Abmayr and Kiranmai S. Kocherlakota
  • Muscle attachment sites-where migrating muscles meet their match / Talila Volk
  • Neuromuscular development: connectivity and plasticity / Louise Nicholson and Haig Keshishian
  • Metamorphosis and the formation of the adult musculature / Devkanya Dutta and K. VijayRaghavan
  • Molecular basis of muscle structure / Jim O. Vigoreaux
  • Whole genome approaches to studying drosophila muscle development / Eileen E.M. Furlong
  • Comparison of muscle development in drosophila and vertebrates / Michael V. Taylor.