Tactile stimulation of an insect's abdomen evokes various behaviors including grooming and vigorous escape responses. We tested a sample of 37 tactile-sensitive abdominal interneurons for various morphological and physiological characteristics, including their ability to excite thoracic interneurons
The effect of temperature changes on the spontaneous activity in the neural ganglia of the cockroach, Periplaneta americana
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- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 443 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0306-4565
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