muscle cell [FBbt_00005074]
Somatic, contractile cell that makes up a muscle. It is formed by several fusion events between fusion competent myoblasts and one founder cell. In contrast to vertebrates, in Drosophila embryos and larva, each muscle is a single myotube (Maqbool and Jagla, 2007).
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