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Proprioceptive coupling within motor neurons drives C. elegans forward locomotion.
Neuron - 21 Nov 2012
Wen Quan, Po Michelle D, Hulme Elizabeth, Chen Sway, Liu Xinyu, Kwok Sen Wai, Gershow Marc, Leifer Andrew M, Butler Victoria, Fang-Yen Christopher, Kawano Taizo, Schafer William R, Whitesides George, Wyart Matthieu, Chklovskii Dmitri B, Zhen Mei, Samuel Aravinthan D T
Abstract excerpt
Locomotion requires coordinated motor activity throughout an animal's body. In both vertebrates and invertebrates, chains of coupled central pattern generators (CPGs) are commonly evoked to explain local rhythmic behaviors. In C. elegans, we report that proprioception within the motor circuit is responsible for propagating and coordinating rhythmic undulatory waves from head to tail during forward movement....
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