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 Wallis, E.J., D.H. Paul, B.L. Antonsen, and R. Hollenberg (1995) Variations on a segmental theme - muscle receptor organs and extensor neuromusculature in the squat lobster Munida quadrispina (Anomura, Galatheidae). Journal of Experimental Biology 198(12): 2453–2463.

 

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Reference ID 24026
Reference type journalarticle
Authors Wallis, E.J.
Paul, D.H.
Antonsen, B.L.
Hollenberg, R.
Publication Year (for display) 1995
Publication Year (for sorting) 1995
Title Variations on a segmental theme - muscle receptor organs and extensor neuromusculature in the squat lobster _Munida quadrispina_ (Anomura, Galatheidae)
Secondary Title Journal of Experimental Biology
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Volume 198
Issue 12
Pages 2453–2463
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Abstract
Extensor neuromusculature and the muscle receptor organs (MROs) associated with them have been conserved during the evolution of malacostracan crustaceans, despite species-specific differences between homologous segments in divergent taxa, Investigations of these differences could provide insight into how sensory and neuromuscular elements are modified to accommodate changing behavioural patterns, The most obvious differences between squat lobsters (galatheid anomurans) and macruran decapods, such as crayfish, are the greater dorso-ventral flattening of the galatheid abdomen and its flexed resting posture, To investigate whether the evolution of this altered posture affected extensor neuromusculature and MRO morphology and physiology, we used Methylene Blue staining, cobalt backfilling and extracellular recording techniques to describe these elements in the caudal thoracic and six abdominal segments of the squat lobster Munida quadrispina and compared our results with published descriptions of homologous elements in macrurans. In M, quadrispina, there is segmental variation both in the orientation of the MROs along the abdomen and in their physiological responses to stretch: apparent sensitivity is higher in caudal than rostral MROs, Homologues of three of the four accessory neurones found in crayfish occur, but AN#1 has a major dendrite not present in crayfish, Intersegmental differences in size and morphology of extensor motoneurones occur in M, quadrispina, as have been reported in crayfish, but are dissimilar in the two: abdominal ganglion 5 extensor motoneurones are the largest in M, quadrispina and the smallest in crayfish; this difference correlates with the difference in relative size of axial muscles along the abdomen reported previously for these species, M, quadrispina also differs from macrurans in having a single tonic, and no phasic, MRO on each side of the last abdominal segment. Together, these observations suggest that galatheids have evolved modified or additional neurobehavioural control(s) for the abdomen and tailfan.
Keywords anomura neuroanatomy
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