In this issue

Something for Everyone
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 1501i. [Full Text] [PDF]  

One Tissue Across the Whole Animal Kingdom
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 1502i. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Muscles Function, Whatever the Temperature
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 1503i. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Looking From the Past to the Future
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 1504i-1505. [Full Text] [PDF]  

J Exp Biol 2002 205: 1506i. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Review

Hans Hoppeler and Martin Flück

Normal mammalian skeletal muscle and its phenotypic plasticity
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 2143-2152. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Graham N. Askew and Richard L. Marsh

Muscle designed for maximum short-term power output: quail flight muscle
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 2153-2160. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Klaus D. Jürgens

Etruscan shrew muscle: the consequences of being small
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 2161-2166. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Anthony Herrel, Jay J. Meyers, Jean-Pierre Timmermans, and Kiisa C. Nishikawa

Supercontracting muscle: producing tension over extreme muscle lengths
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 2167-2173. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Kevin E. Conley and Stan L. Lindstedt

Energy-saving mechanisms in muscle: the minimization strategy
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 2175-2181. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

M. A. Connaughton, M. L. Fine, and M. H. Taylor

Weakfish sonic muscle: influence of size, temperature and season
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 2183-2188. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Fred Schachat and Margaret M. Briggs

Phylogenetic implications of the superfast myosin in extraocular muscles
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 2189-2201. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Joseph F. Y. Hoh

`Superfast' or masticatory myosin and the evolution of jaw-closing muscles of vertebrates
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 2203-2210. [Summary] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stan L. Lindstedt, Trude E. Reich, Paul Keim, and Paul C. LaStayo

Do muscles function as adaptable locomotor springs?
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 2211-2216. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

H. O. Pörtner

Physiological basis of temperature-dependent biogeography: trade-offs in muscle design and performance in polar ectotherms
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 2217-2230. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Shugo Watabe

Temperature plasticity of contractile proteins in fish muscle
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 2231-2236. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Helga Guderley and Julie St-Pierre

Going with the flow or life in the fast lane: contrasting mitochondrial responses to thermal change
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 2237-2249. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Stephen L. Katz

Design of heterothermic muscle in fish
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 2251-2266. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

José Eduardo P. W. Bicudo, Antonio C. Bianco, and Cláudia R. Vianna

Adaptive thermogenesis in hummingbirds
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 2267-2273. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Patrick Schrauwen and Matthijs Hesselink

UCP2 and UCP3 in muscle controlling body metabolism
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 2275-2285. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Robert G. Boutilier and Julie St-Pierre

Adaptive plasticity of skeletal muscle energetics in hibernating frogs: mitochondrial proton leak during metabolic depression
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 2287-2296. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Nicholas J. Hudson and Craig E. Franklin

Maintaining muscle mass during extended disuse: aestivating frogs as a model species
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 2297-2303. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Ian A. Johnston and Genevieve K. Temple

Thermal plasticity of skeletal muscle phenotype in ectothermic vertebrates and its significance for locomotory behaviour
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 2305-2322. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

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