The rolling stone.

The Mesodermal Expression of rolling stone (rost) Is Essential for Myoblast Fusion in Drosophila and Encodes a Potential Transmembrane Protein

In homozygous rolling stone embryos, the fusion of myoblasts to syncytial myotubes is diminished. Nevertheless, the visceral mesoderm, the heart mesoderm, and few somatic muscles are properly formed. Thus, we postulate a central role of rolling stone for the fusion process within the somatic mesoderm. We have cloned the rolling stone gene, and the deduced protein sequence is in accordance with ...

Fusion from myoblasts to myotubes is dependent on the rolling stone gene (rost) of Drosophila.

The development and differentiation of the body wall musculature in Drosophila are accompanied by changes in gene expression and cellular architecture. We isolated a Drosophila gene, termed rolling stone (rost), which, when mutated, specifically blocks the fusion of mononucleated cells to myotubes in the body wall musculature. beta 3 tubulin, which is an early marker for the onset of mesoderm d...

Images of powerful women in the age of ‘choice feminism’

A number of scholars and journalists have argued that Western culture has become ‘sexualized’. Both women and men, they maintain, are highly sexualized in popular media. At the same time, scholars have examined the sexualization of women as part of a broader cultural ‘backlash’ against the gains of second-wave feminism and women’s increasing power in society. We contribute to both of these fiel...

Like a rolling stone: the dynamic world of animal ecology publishing.

Like a rolling stone: the dynamic world of animal ecology publishing Kenneth Wilson*, Ben C. Sheldon, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Nathan J. Sanders, Simon P. G. Hoggart and Erika Newton Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, UK; Department of Zoology, Edward Grey Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PS, UK; CNRS, UMR 5558 “Biom etrie et Biologie Evolutive”, U...

Letters to the editor: like a rolling stone?