Haltere afferents provide direct, electrotonic input to a steering motor neuron in the blowfly, Calliphora

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 5225-5232

  Fayyazuddin, Amir ^a   Dickinson, Michael H ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

flight; gap junctions; haltere; mechanosensory; sensory motor reflex; thoracic ganglion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLIGHT; FLY; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; LIMB MOVEMENT; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MONOSYNAPTIC REFLEX; MOTONEURON; NEUROMUSCULAR TRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 0029757973     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-16-05225.1996     Document Type: Article

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