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Table 1 Summary of muscle types in four cicada species examined in this study

From: The tymbal muscle of cicada has flight muscle-type sarcomeric architecture and protein expression

 

Indirect flight muscles

Direct flight muscles

Body muscles

Species

DLM

DVM

Bas

Sub

3Ax

Tym

Ten

Leg

Terpnosia vacua

F/f

f

  

b

F/f

  

Meimuna oparifera

F/f

f

f

f

b

F/f

B/b

b

Platypleura kaempferi

F

 

F

  

F

  

Graptopsaltria nigrofuscata

F/f

F/f

F/f

F/f

b

F/f

b

b

  1. F or f, flight muscle type (1:3 myofilament lattice and sampled 1st layer line, expression of flight muscle-specific troponin I isoform); B or b, body muscle type (1:5 or 1: 6 lattice and non-sampled 1st layer line, lack of flight muscle-specific troponin I isoform). Capital letters, evidence from X-ray diffraction; small letters, evidence from immunoblotting. Bas, basalar; Sub, subalar, Tym, tymbal, Ten, tensor