Muscle development: molecules of myoblast fusion.
The fusion of myoblasts to make multinucleate muscle fibres is central to muscle development. Recent work on Drosophila has identified two members of the immunoglobulin superfamily that have key roles in controlling the specificity of myoblast fusion.
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Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK. mvt1000@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk
D000818:Animals; D002459:Cell Fusion; D004330:Drosophila / Q000196:embryology*; D009132:Muscles / Q000166:cytology / Q000196:embryology*