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THE decapod crustaceans have many advantages for the study of the neuronal mechanisms controlling simple behaviour1–3. Numerous authors have investigated the functions of the walking legs, but models of the control mechanisms have been presented in terms of central programmes and reflexes related simply to the positions and movements of the joints4,5; little attention has been paid to the control of tension in the chief working muscles. It has been shown, however, that the tension of some of these muscles is monitored by sense organs6. We present here some initial findings on the reflexes produced by input from these tension receptors and the integration of such reflexes in the intact animal.
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CLARAC, F., DANDO, M. Tension Receptor Reflexes in the Walking Legs of the Crab Cancer pagurus. Nature 243, 94–95 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/243094a0
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