Parallel 'phasic' and 'tonic' motor systems of the crayfish abdomen

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 211, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 2193-2195

  Atwood, Harold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTACOIDEA;

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CRAYFISH; HISTOLOGY; HISTORY; INNERVATION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROANATOMY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ANIMALS; ASTACOIDEA; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURONS; NEUROANATOMY;

EID: 52449125391     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.010868     Document Type: Review

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