Lethocerus indicus

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Lethocerus indicus is a model organism used for studying the mechanism of muscle contraction. The asynchronous flight muscle is stretch-activated. This makes it easier to follow molecular events in fibres during contraction and relaxation. The sequence of the whole genome is needed for determining the way in which stretch-activated proteins work, and how the system compares with stretch-activated vertebrate heart muscle. Lethocerus are available from Thailand, or Florida. Lethocerus spp. has been an essential model organism of biophysical research on how muscles convert chemical energy into mechanical motion and force for over 40 years, and yet almost nothing is known about their genome. These insect also rely on stretch activation to drive their flight muscles, a mode of action that overcomes innate limitations of neurogenically driving contraction, as well as giving greater energy efficiency, which has fostered an evolutionary explosion of diversity such that flying insects are the largest class of species on earth. Strech activation appears to have convergently evolved multiple times in 5 different insect orders, three of which have had members sequenced (eg. Apis, Tribolium, and Drosophila from orders Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, and Diptera) but nothing is known about Hemiptera. Belinda Bullard
Robert Perz-Edwards
Michael Pfrender

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Taxonomic classification
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Belostomatidae
Genus: Lethocerus
NCBI taxid: 485px-US-NLM-NCBI-Logo.png 212017
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Date: 2011/07/12


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