“…This review covers articles published before 2007 on invertebrate thin and thick filament structure, force production and actomyosin regulation, and catch and asynchronous muscle (some 1,300 of the 7,100 articles presently in the database). However, we cannot cover articles in languages we cannot read; articles completely in languages other than English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish are therefore not included (not included but on-topic articles in Japanese, Chinese, or Korean: Hozawa, 1911;Sheng et al, 1956;Yazawa and Yoshida, 1979;Fan and Chen, 1986;Nishita, 1998;Katoh, 1999;Ojima, 2003;Funabara, 2004;in Russian: Samosudova and Frank, 1962;Razumova et al, 1966Razumova et al, , 1968Razumova et al, , 1972Razumova et al, , 1973aRazumova et al, , 1973bRazumova et al, , 1975. We have also not included articles in which the species used is not identified or cannot now be identified (requiring a book long out of print) (Aubert, 1944;Kuschinski and Turba, 1950;Szent-Györgyi, 1953;Philpott and Szent-Györgyi, 1954;Szent-Györgyi and Borbiro, 1956;Cohen and Szent-Györgyi, 1957;Szent-Györgyi and Cohen, 1957;Szent-Györgyi et al, 1960;Maruyama and Ishikawa, 1963;Shechter and Blout, 1964;Baier and Zobel, 1966;Kominz and Maruyama, 1967;Botts et al, 1972;Moos, 1972;Ogawa, 1985;Mehta et al, 1997).…”