Ecdysis: Neural Orchestration of a Complex Behavioral Performance
- 11 March 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 195 (4282), 1006-1008
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.841322
Abstract
Cricket ecdysis (molting) requires continuously changing output in hundreds of motoneurons over a period of several hours, and exhibits considerable plasticity. Despite this complexity, analysis of identified motor units reveals a highly organized three-layered infrastructure, and indicates that the "small system" paradigm currently applied to simple invertebrate motor programs can be extended to much more sophisticated behavioral performances.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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