Digger wasp versus cricket: Immediate actions of the predator's paralytic venom on the CNS of the prey

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 323-337

  Ferber, Michael ^a   Consoulas, Christos ^a,b   Gnatzy, Werner ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Action potential blocker; Crickets (Acheta domesticus, Gryllus bimaculatus Orthoptera); Digger wasp (Liris niger, Hymenoptera); Insect venom; Paralysis

Indexed keywords

INSECT VENOM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; WASP;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GRYLLIDAE; MUSCLES; PARALYSIS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WASP VENOMS; WASPS;

EID: 0032918351     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4695(19990215)38:3<323::AID-NEU3>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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