Functional changes of cricket giant interneurons caused by chronic unilateral cercal ablation during postembryonic development

Zoological Science

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 7-14

  Kanou, Masamichi ^a   Matsuura, Tetsuya ^b   Minami, Naoto ^a   Takanashi, Taisuke ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Compensation; Cricket; Escape behavior; Giant interneuron; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

GRYLLIDAE; GRYLLUS; GRYLLUS BIMACULATUS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; GANGLION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; GRYLLIDAE; INTERNEURON; LARVA; MECHANORECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ESCAPE REACTION; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; GRYLLIDAE; INTERNEURONS; LARVA; MECHANORECEPTORS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION;

EID: 85047689775     PISSN: 02890003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2108/0289-0003(2004)21[7:FCOCGI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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