ReviewJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology2014
Inhibitory motoneurons in arthropod motor control: organisation, function, evolution.
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- Motor innervation pattern of labral muscles of Locusta migratoria.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2018Article
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- Mechanosensation and Adaptive Motor Control in Insects.Current biology : CB · 2016Review
- Task-dependent modification of leg motor neuron synaptic input underlying changes in walking direction and walking speed.Journal of neurophysiology · 2015Article
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Abstract
Miniaturisation of somatic cells in animals is limited, for reasons ranging from the accommodation of organelles to surface-to-volume ratio. Consequently, muscle and nerve cells vary in diameters by about two orders of magnitude, in animals covering 12 orders of magnitude in body mass. Small animals thus have to control their behaviour with few muscle fibres and neurons. Hexapod leg muscles, for instance, may consist of a single to a few 100 fibres, and they are controlled by one to, rarely, 19 motoneurons. A typical mammal has thousands of fibres per muscle supplied by hundreds of motoneurons for comparable behavioural performances. Arthopods--crustaceans, hexapods, spiders, and their kin--are on average much smaller than vertebrates, and they possess inhibitory motoneurons for a motor control strategy that allows a broad performance spectrum despite necessarily small cell numbers. This arthropod motor control strategy is reviewed from functional and evolutionary perspectives and its components are described with a focus on inhibitory motoneurons. Inhibitory motoneurons are particularly interesting for a number of reasons: evolutionary and phylogenetic comparison of functional specialisations, evolutionary and developmental origin and diversification, and muscle fibre recruitment strategies.
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