... on the ventral epidermis of planarians that are required for their nonmuscular gliding locomotion. Finally, we show that in addition to its requirement in serotonergic neurons, Smed-pitx is required for proper midline patterning during regeneration, when it is required for the expression of the midline...

...Laurent Soustelle; Cécile Jacques; Benjamin Altenhein; Gerhard M. Technau; Talila Volk; Angela Giangrande Locomotion relies on stable attachment of muscle fibres to their target sites, a process that allows for muscle contraction to generate movement. Here, we show that glide/gcm and glide2/gcm2...

... screen yielded 16 lethal point mutant alleles of dAP-2 . Null mutants die as adults or late pupae with a reduced proboscis, severely shortened legs (∼30% of normal length) lacking tarsal joints, and disruptions in the protocerebral central complex, a brain region critical for locomotion. Seven...

... Zebrafish embryos and larvae have stage-specific patterns of motility or locomotion. Two embryonic structures accomplish this behavior: the central nervous system (CNS) and skeletal muscles. To identify genes that are functionally involved in mediating and controlling different patterns of embryonic...

... sites for laminin and its subfragments E8 and El –4. We report here the novel finding that the ability of MM14dy to locomote over laminin diminishes and finally vanishes as the cells differentiate. The simultaneous drop in expression of binding sites for laminin is interpreted as being of potential...