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. 2017 Nov 22;6:e29425. doi: 10.7554/eLife.29425

Figure 3. Mammalian superfast muscles are enriched with MYH4 ortholog.

Figure 3.

(a) Immunohistochemistry labeling shows absence of MYH13 (left column) in Daubenton’s bat larynx SFM (top) with positive control in extraocular muscle (EOM) (middle) and negative control in body skeletal muscle (m. tibialis anterior; TA) (bottom). Fast twitch MYHs (right column) are present in SFM, EOM and TA muscles. (b) qPCR analysis identifies MYH4 (MyHC-2b) to be dominating in bat SFM. Both MYH4 and MYH8 primer pairs amplified MYH4 mRNA as confirmed by cDNA sequencing.