Incliva Health Research Institute

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Biology

Optical Cross-Sectional Muscle Area Determination of Drosophila Melanogaster Adult Indirect Flight Muscles

Estela Selma-Soriano^1,2,3, Rubén Artero^1,2,3, Beatriz Llamusi^1,2,3

¹Department of Genetics and Interdisciplinary Research Structure for Biotechnology and Biomedicine (BIOTECMED), University of Valencia, ²Incliva Health Research Institute, ³Joint unit CIPF-Incliva

We report a method to quantify muscle area, which is an indirect method to determine muscle mass in Drosophila adults. We demonstrate the application of our methodology by analyzing the indirect flight muscles in a Drosophila model of Myotonic Dystrophy disease.