Differing afferent connections of spiking and nonspiking wind-sensitive local interneurons in the terminal abdominal ganglion of the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus

1995 ◽  
Vol 176 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Baba ◽  
K. Hirota ◽  
T. Yamaguchi ◽  
T. Shimozawa
Keyword(s):  
Abdominal Ganglion ◽  
Gryllus Bimaculatus ◽  
Afferent Connections ◽  
Local Interneurons

Local interneurons in the terminal abdominal ganglion of the crayfish

1982 ◽  
Vol 149 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heinrich Reichert ◽  
Mark R. Plummer ◽  
Grace Hagiwara ◽  
Richard L. Roth ◽  
Jeffrey J. Wine
Keyword(s):  
Abdominal Ganglion ◽  
Local Interneurons

scholarly journals Excretion initiates walking in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keisuke Naniwa ◽  
Yasuhiro Sugimoto ◽  
Koichi Osuka ◽  
Hitoshi Aonuma
Keyword(s):  
Gait Pattern ◽  
Abdominal Ganglion ◽  
Excretory System ◽  
Occurrence Rate ◽  
Gryllus Bimaculatus ◽  
Motor Circuit ◽  
Walking Gait ◽  
Tripod Gait ◽  
Leg Movement ◽  
The Brain

AbstractFeces contain information about the donor and potentially attracts both conspecifics and predators and parasites. The excretory system must be coordinated with other behaviors in insects. We found that crickets start walking forward following excretion of feces. Most intact crickets walked around the experimental arena, stopped at a particular site and raised up their body with a slight backward drift to excrete feces. After the feces dropped on the floor, the animal started walking with a random gait pattern away from the feces, and then changed the gait pattern to a tripod gait. Headless cricket also showed walking following excretion. In more than half of excretion events, headless crickets walked backward before excretion. The posture adopted during excretion was similar to that of intact crickets, and post-excretory forward walking was also observed. The occurrence rate of post-excretory walking was more than that of intact crickets. The gait pattern during forward walking was random and never transitioned to a tripod gait in the headless crickets. In animals whose abdominal nerve cords were cut, in any position, pre- or post-excretion walking was not shown in both intact and headless crickets, although they excreted feces. These results indicate that ascending signals from the terminal abdominal ganglion initiate leg movement through the neuronal circuits within thoracic ganglia, and that descending signals from the brain must regulate leg the motor circuit to express the appropriate walking gait.

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