Too much of a good thing.
other · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 30222106.
- Also identified by DOI 10.7554/eLife.41178 and PMC identifier 6141230.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
- The licence permits redistribution, so the abstract is shown in full and the full text is available from the publisher.
Abstract
A mutation that causes heart disease in humans increases the number of active myosin heads during muscle contraction in fruit flies, leading to the progressive dysfunction of the flight muscles and heart tube.
Medical subject headings
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Flight, Animal