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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.Mesh:
Year: 1977 PMID: 841322 DOI: 10.1126/science.841322
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN: 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728