... prey, eels emit doublets and triplets, inducing whole-body twitch in prey, which in turn elicits an immediate eel attack with a full volley and suction feeding strike. Thus, by using their modified muscles (electrocytes) as amplifiers of their own motor efferents, eel's motor neurons remotely activate...

...Brian L. Antonsen; Dorothy H. Pau The proximal leg muscles of decapod crustaceans, controlling movements at the first two joints, are anatomically more complex than the better-studied distal leg muscles. Despite extensive research on their involvement in diverse behaviors, no complete descriptions...

... in Trichopsis . Betta splendens , a related nonsonic gourami with unspecialized pectoral fins, served as a control. A single injection into Trichopsis epaxial muscle labeled a dorsal motor column of large cells (mean of 16.3 µm) ventrolateral to the central canal. Pectoral motoneurons formed a ventrolateral...

...J. Gray Chickering; Alan J. Sokoloff The propatagium of gliding and flying mammals is of both functional and phylogenetic interest. The innervation of the propatagial muscle, platysma II, was studied with the axonal tracer wheat germ agglutinin-conjugated horseradish peroxidase (WGA-HRP...