Crustacean Experimental Systems in Neurobiology
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: November 18, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9783540438090
Subjects: Crustaceans; Neurosciences; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Neurobiology; Crustacea; Science; Sociology; Science/Mathematics; Neurology - General; Anthropology - Physical; Life Sciences - Zoology - General; Crustaceen; Neurobiologie; Physiologie; Science / Zoology; neuro; Comparative neurobiology; Nervous system
First sentence: The neural circuitry that is responsible for the escape behavior of crayfish has been a favorite object of study for neurobiologists ever since Weirsma first showed, about half a century ago, that a single firing of the crayfish medial or lateral giant axons causes a well formed tail-flip escape response (Wiersma 1947).