Fruit Flies (IMAGE)

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Fruit Flies

Caption

Fruit fly flight muscles remain intact when they have a normal actin protein (left), but when the flight muscles have a hypertrophic cardiomyopathy mutation in the actin, the tensed muscles shred when the fruit flies attempt flight.

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Cammarato Lab

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