Publication Date:
1984-11-23
Description:
Flying crickets avoid sources of ultrasound, possibly echolocating bats, by making rapid steering movements that turn them away from the stimulus. Electrical stimulation of a single, identified sensory interneuron (Int-1) elicits avoidance steering; depressing its response to ultrasound abolishes avoidance steering. Int-1 is necessary and sufficient for this behavior but only while the cricket is in flight. Thus, the sufficiency of Int-1 for eliciting this behavior is contingent on behavioral context.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Nolen, T G -- Hoy, R R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1984 Nov 23;226(4677):992-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6505681" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Acoustic Stimulation
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Animals
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Avoidance Learning
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Electric Stimulation
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Flight, Animal
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Functional Laterality
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Interneurons/*physiology
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Membrane Potentials
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*Motor Activity
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Neurons, Afferent/*physiology
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Orthoptera/*physiology
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Ultrasonics
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
