Activity of neck-muscle motoneurones during eye cleaning behaviour in the cricket Gryllus campestris |
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Authors: | Klaus Hensler Hans-Willi Honegger |
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Affiliation: | 1. Universität Konstanz, F.R.G.;2. Institut für Zoologie, Technische Universität München, F.R.G. |
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Abstract: | The activity of neck-muscle motoneurones which control head movements during eye cleaning behaviour was recorded from motor nerves with chronically implanted electrodes in unrestrained crickets. We show that motoneurones of the dorso-ventral muscles displayed strong activity differences between both sides of the neck, with higher discharge frequencies either ipsi- or contralateral to the direction of the head movement. Motoneurones innervating dorsal-longitudinal muscles were equally active on both sides. A single excitatory motoneurone of one dorso-ventral muscle showed a discharge pattern unequivocally related to eye cleaning. Lesions of connectives revealed that this motoneurone is monitored by interneuronal pathways from the suboesophageal ganglion although the primary sensory axons eliciting eye cleaning, project into the prothoracic ganglion. |
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Keywords: | Cricket eye cleaning behaviour neck muscles chronic nerve recordings |
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