Population
Three insect visceral muscles
Design
Preclinical
Authors
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Challenges standard myofilament ratios in vertebrate muscle; extends invertebrate biology while leaving cardiac relevance open.
Insect visceral muscles exhibit an unusual myofilament array with each thick filament surrounded by twelve thin filaments, differing from insect flight muscle and vertebrate skeletal muscle.
Smith et al. (1966) studied this question.
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