The giant interneurons of the crayfish nerve cord are well-known mediators of fast tail
flexions," tailflips," that propel animals through the water away from danger. More recent …

1. The giant command neurons for tailflip escape behavior in crayfish have been thought to
excite the nongiant fast flexor (tailflip producing) motor neurons (FFs) via monosynaptic …

1. Crayfish giant fibers are generally believed to generate tailflip movements by means of
direct connections to two classes of phasic flexor muscle motoneurons, the motor giants …

Crayfish escape from potentially serious threats to life and limb by means of powerful
flexions of their abdomens, which thrust the animal through the water away from danger …

Extrinsic systems were shown to control the excitability of the neurones which mediate tail-
flip escape in the crayfish. Restraint suppresses the escape mediated by giant fibres and …

Electromyograms (EMGs) from phasic abdominal muscles of unrestrained and variously
restrained crayfish were used to study the involvement of sensory information in phasic …

High-speed cinematography of the escape behaviour of freelymoving crayfish showed that
the thoracic and abdominal appendages exhibit stereotyped movements in giant axon …

The crayfish abdomen contains separate slow and fast neuromuscular systems that mediate
posture and escape tailflips. It was recently demonstrated that impulses in the medial and …

We have used electrophysiological techniques to document segmental differences in the
pathways between the giant, escape command axons, lateral giants (LG) and medial giants …

Many behaviors are remarkable for the orderly sequencing, precise timing, and appropriate
strength of their constituent units. In certain invertebrates, the neural circuitry that participates …