... Nanostructures Glasswing Lepidoptera Cytoskeleton Morphogenesis The wings of butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) have inspired studies across a variety of scientific fields, including evolutionary biology, ecology and biophysics ( Beldade and Brakefield, 2002 ; Prum et al., 2006 ; Gilbert...

... tolerance Chymomyza Diapause Cytoskeleton Actin Drosophilid Insects employ a variety of strategies to survive at low temperatures, and while the majority of those studied (an estimated 70%) are freeze intolerant ( Sinclair et al., 2003 ), the most cold-hardy species survive internal freezing...

... as the sarcomeric cytoskeleton, is essential for the ordered assembly of actin and myosin filaments into sarcomeres, by combining architectural, mechanical and signalling functions. This review discusses recent cell biological, biophysical and structural insight into the regulated assembly of sarcomeric...

... main functional categories were upregulated in response to hypercapnia: those associated with the cytoskeleton (e.g. several actin isoforms) and those associated with oxidative stress (e.g. superoxide dismutase and several peroxiredoxins as well as the thioredoxin-related nucleoredoxin). This indicates...

..., the regulation of TauT expression in gill cells of euryhaline fish. We have demonstrated the involvement of ionic strength, the cytoskeleton and MLC kinase in the regulation of TauT expression. The results shed light on the osmosensing and hyperosmotic adaption in fish gills. * Author for correspondence...

... defective cardiac Z-disc components to the development of cardiomyopathy. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: rolf@burnham.org ) 16 10 2007 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2008 2008 Drosophila muscle LIM protein cardiomyopathy cardiac function arrhythmia cytoskeleton...

... disturbances; however, the relationship between their mechanism of action and toxicity in intestinal cells is still unknown. The actin cytoskeleton is an important and highly complicated structure in intestinal cells, and on that basis our aim has been to investigate the effect of representative phycotoxins...

... The Company of Biologists Limited 2003 2003 Antarctic fish cell motility cytoskeleton notothenioid keratocytes temperature A potentially important contributor to the nonspecific immune responses is the wound healing function of cells termed keratocytes, which are terminally differentiated...

... of Biologists Limited 2003 2003 actin cytoskeleton endocytosis mitochondria organelle movement pathogen The Arp2/3 complex was first isolated from Acanthomoeba castellanii on the basis of its affinity for the actin binding protein,profilin ( Machesky et al.,1994 ). Subsequently, the complex...