Fast and singular muscle responses initiate the startle response of Pantodon buchholzi (Osteoglossomorpha)

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 100-114

  Starosciak, A K ^a   Kalola, R P ^b   Perkins, K P ^b   Riley, J A ^b   Saidel, W M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromyograms; Escape response; Latency; Motor neurons; Muscle response; Pantodon buchholzi; Startle response

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FAST MUSCLE; FEMALE; FISH; HABITUATION; INNERVATION; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLOW MUSCLE; STARTLE REFLEX; TELEOST;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESCAPE REACTION; FISHES; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LYSINE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; REACTION TIME; STARTLE REACTION; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

OSTEOGLOSSOMORPHA; PANTODON; PANTODON BUCHHOLZI;

EID: 39549112690     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000111457     Document Type: Article

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