Assembly of body wall muscle and muscle cell attachment structures in Caenorhabditis elegans.

Abstract excerpt

C. Elegans has four muscle quadrants that are used for locomotion. Contraction is converted to locomotion because muscle cells are anchored to the cuticle (the outer covering of the worm) by a specialized basement membrane and hemidesmosome structures in the hypodermis (a cellular syncytium that...

Topics

• Animals
• Caenorhabditis elegans
• Cell Adhesion
• Muscles
• Mutation