Abstract
CICADA song may be regarded as a simple rhythmical behaviour because it is highly stereotyped and involves regular spikes in a single pair of motoneurones. It was the subject of an early study of intracellular activity in central neurones1. Here I show that the neuronal generator for song of the Australian bladder cicada, Cystosoma saundersii (Westw.) is continually active at twice the frequency of motoneurone spikes and, in common with other rhythmical behaviours in arthropods2–4, involves non-spiking interneurones.
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SIMMONS, P. Neuronal generation of singing in a cicada. Nature 270, 243–245 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1038/270243a0
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