.... Thus, the primitive sensory condition for auditory activation and guidance of Mauthner-neuron-initiated escape responses may have evolved to detect the initially compressive sounds associated with ram-type predators. Audition Cichlids Escape Goldfish Mauthner cell Mechanosensory lateral line...

...Joseph R. Fetcho Most swimming vertebrates, particularly fishes and amphibians, avoid predators by producing an escape behavior initiated by a single action potential in one of a pair of cells, the Mauthner cells, located in the hindbrain. The most prominent feature of this behavior is a rapid...

...Udo Will Presently available data on anatomical, electrophysiological, and behavioral aspects of the Mauthner cell in amphibians are reviewed. Urodelian Mauthner cells appear morphologically distinct from those in anurans with respect to their abundant somatic dendrites, axon cap structures, lack...

...Hilary S. Bierman; Steven J. Zottoli; Melina E. Hale Studies of vertebrate brain evolution have focused primarily on patterns of gene expression or changes in size and organization of major brain regions. The Mauthner cell, an important reticulospinal neuron that functions in the startle response...

...Michael A. Barry; Michael V.L. Bennett Giant fibers are large reticular interneurons that mediate excitatory input from the Mauthner cells to pectoral-fin motoneurons. The present study revealed extensive giant-fiber projections to central targets other than the pectoral-fin motoneurons...

... on the Mauthner cell and with certain intrinsic membrane properties of the Mauthner cell that contribute to shaping the threshold and expression of the C start. One concept that emerges is related to the interaction between excitatory and inhibitory drives to the Mauthner cell. It seems that every major afferent...

...Udo Will Presently available data on anatomical, electrophysiological, and behavioral aspects of the Mauthner cell in amphibians are reviewed. Urodelian Mauthner cells appear morphologically distinct from those in anurans with respect to their abundant somatic dendrites, axon cap structures, lack...

...Joseph R. Fetcho Most swimming vertebrates, particularly fishes and amphibians, avoid predators by producing an escape behavior initiated by a single action potential in one of a pair of cells, the Mauthner cells, located in the hindbrain. The most prominent feature of this behavior is a rapid...

... than those evoked by vibration; simultaneous stimulation of both Mauthner axons (one action potential each) reproduces the vibration-evoked electromyographic amplitudes. The Mauthner cell's sensitivity to vestibular input is centrally modulated during changes in behavioral state. Mauthner action...

...Richard R. Fay Mauthner cells receive neurally coded information from the otolith organs in fishes, and it is most likely that initiation and directional characteristics of the C-start response depend on this input. In the goldfish, saccular afferents are sensitive to sound pressure (< –30 dB re...

.... Thus, the primitive sensory condition for auditory activation and guidance of Mauthner-neuron-initiated escape responses may have evolved to detect the initially compressive sounds associated with ram-type predators. 8 1 2008 Audition Cichlids Escape Goldfish Mauthner cell...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Fish Mauthner cell Startle response Escape Vision C-start Visuospatial coding Recent work has shown that large populations of brainstem neurons are active during the escape responses of teleost fish [Bosch et al., 2001...

... and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Fish Mauthner cell Startle response Escape Vision C-start Temporal integration Teleost fish rely...

...Jason R. Meyers; Elizabeth H. Copanas; Steven J. Zottoli A comparative anatomical and behavioral approach was used to elucidate the role of medullary networks associated with Mauthner cells (M-cells) in determining the type of fast startle responses of elongate bony fish with an anguilliform type...