Musculature and innervation of the neck of the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria (Forskål)
- 1 April 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Morphology
- Vol. 139 (4), 439-464
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.1051390406
Abstract
The innervation of each of the muscles involved in mediating head movement in the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria is described in detail. The number of motor neurones to each muscle and the neutral pathway and ganglion of origin of each are deduced from both histological and electrophysiological evidence. Only two of the muscles are, on histological evidence, innervated by as few as four different neurones, while several receive more than ten, and one at least 13. Individual muscles are shown physiologically to receive, in a few cases, as many as six different motor neurones. At least six muscles are innervated by motor neurones originating in more than one ganglion. One group of four muscles consisting in total of less than 100 muscle fibres receives more than 20 different motor neurones from three different ganglia through three or four different nerve roots. In these muscles, many single muscle fibres receive innervation from at least two different ganglia. It is concluded that the segmental nature of an insect muscle can not be deduced solely from a knowledge of the ganglion of origin of the motor innervation to that muscle. The innervation patterns that exist today must reflect past evolutionary development, but changes in the peripheral distribution of motor neurones, or migration of motor neurone cell bodies from one ganglion to another, or the development of additional motor neurones, or several of these factors together, must have formed a part of that development.Keywords
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