Identified Neurons and Behavior of Arthropods

ISBN-13: 9781468469691 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 594 str.

Graham Hoyle

Opis

Identified Neurons and Behavior of Arthropods presents for the larger audience the papers delivered at a symposium of the same title. I organized this symposium so that a few of the many who owe him a great scientific debt could honor Professor C. A. G. (Kees) Wiersma upon his attaining the age of 70 and retiring from the California Institute of Technology. Everyone of the participants publicly acknowledged his debt to Kees Wiersma, but in a sense there was no need to do so, because the research reported spoke for itself. Seldom in a rapidly developing branch of modem science has all of the recent progress so clearly stemmed from the pioneering work of a single figure. But in this subject, the role of identified nerve cells in determining behavior, Wiersma stood virtually alone for 30 years. He it was who first showed that indi vidual nerve cells are recognizable and functionally important and have "per sonalities" of their own."

Spis treści

Kees Wiersma: An Appreciation.- 1 Neural Control of Skeletal Muscle.- 1. Crustacean Neuromuscular Systems: Past, Present, and Future.- 2. Neuromuscular Transmission in Insects.- 3. Synaptic Plasticity at Crayfish Neuromuscular Junctions.- 4. Crustacean Motor Neurons.- 5. Morphological and Physiological Properties of Motor Neurons Innervating Insect Leg Muscles.- 6. Inhibition in the Center and the Periphery.- 7. Role of Peripheral Inhibition in the Control of Arthropod Muscle.- 8. Compensatory Eye Movements in Crabs.- 9. Central and Peripheral Features of Crayfish Oculomotor Organization.- 10. Motor Coordination in Crustacean Limbs.- 11. Ventilation Motor Mechanisms in the Dragonfly and Other Insects.- 12. Mechanisms for the Production of Rhythmic Behavior in Crustaceans.- 13. A Comparative Approach to the Neural Control of Locomotion.- 2 Roles of Interneurons in Behavior.- 14. Circumesophageal Interneurons and Behavior in Crayfish.- 15. Visual Input and Motor Output of Command Interneurons of the Defense Reflex Pathway in the Crayfish.- 16. Control of Crayfish Escape Behavior.- 17. The Command Neuron.- 18. Complex Neural Integration and Identified Interneurons in the Locust Brain.- 19. Interneurons in the Ventral Nerve Cord of Insects.- 20. Flight Mechanisms of the Locust.- 21. Flight Motor Innervation of a Flesh Fly.- 3 Coding and Integration of Sensory Input.- 22. The Bridge between Visual Input and Central Programming in Crustaceans.- 23. Modulation of Visual Input in the Crayfish.- 24. Crustacean Optomotor Memory.- 25. Mechanistic Teleology and Explanation in Neuroethology: Understanding the Origins of Behavior.- 26. Nonimpulsive Afferent Coding and Stretch Reflexes in Crabs.- 27. Development of Insect Nervous Systems.- 28. Pathfinding by Arthropod Sensory Nerves.- 29. Does Experience Play a Role in the Development of Insect Neuronal Circuitry?.- 30. Trophic Interactions of Crustacean Neurons.- 31. Some Perspectives on Comparative Neurophysiology.- References.