The concerted activity in parallel proprioceptive pathways controls the initiation of co-activation in the locust kick motor programme

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 55-64

  Jellema, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Central pattern generator; Femoral chordotonal organ; Grasshopper; Jump; Schistocerca gregaria

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DEAFFERENTATION; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; LOCUST; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PATTERN GENERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; TENDON;

ANIMALS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; GRASSHOPPERS; INSTINCT; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLES; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PROPRIOCEPTION; REFLEX, STRETCH;

EID: 0031052851     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.1997.tb01353.x     Document Type: Article

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