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The Neurobiology of an Insect Brain
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Studies of insect nervous systems have made an immense contribution to our understanding of how a brain works and the way that the connections between constituent neurons are formed during development. This book brings these together. By concentrating largely on one insect, the locust, it unravels the mechanisms by which a brain integrates the vast array of sensory information to generate appropriate movements and behaviour. The book first describes the basic structure of an insect brain and how this complex structure is formed during embryonic development. The cellular properties of the different types of neurons, and the way they are altered by neurosecretions, are then analysed with respect to the integrative actions of these neurons during behaviour. Finally, the various movements that an insect performs are investigated at the cellular level to illustrate particular features of the integrative processing. Throughout, the book emphasises how knowledge of these simpler nervous systems contributes to our understanding of more complex brains, and at the same time provides the functional synthesis into which future molecular and computational studies can be woven.
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“A brain can be thought of as running an internal model that controls central pattern generators in the service of allostasis (for more on pattern generators, see Burrows, 1996; Sterling and Laughlin, 2015; Swanson, 2000).”
From The theory of constructed emotion: an active inference account of interoception and categorization (2016) · cites this paper as Burrows, 1996
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“In all limbed animals studied to date, measurements of MN size, such as soma volume, axon diameter and dendritic surface area, have been found to correlate with both the number and physiology of the muscle fibres innervated by the MN and the amount of force produced by the motor unit1,23,24.”
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“This notion is consistent with physiological data such as that from grasshoppers in which computational circuits are built from clusters of distinct types of interneurons (Burrows, 1996), at least some types of which have been shown to arise in the same lineage (Shepherd and Laurent, 1992).”
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Self-citationTools for connectomic reconstruction and analysis of a female Drosophila ventral nerve cord
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“These neurons have been studied extensively in other insects, where they are referred to as the FETi and SETi (Bässler and Büschges, 1998; Burrows, 1996).”
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Synaptic architecture of leg and wing premotor control networks in Drosophila
Lesser, E., Azevedo, A. W., Phelps, J. S., Elabbady, L., Cook, A., Syed, D. S., Mark, B., Kuroda, S., Sustar, A., Moussa, A., et al. (2023) · doi:10.1101/2023.05.30.542725 · Cited by 71
“We first focused on the tibia, where it is well established that MNs are hierarchically recruited (from slow/small to large/fast) in flies and other insects (Azevedo et al., 2020; Burrows, 1996; Newland and Kondoh, 1997; Sasaki and Burrows, 1998).”
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- Authors
- Burrows, M.
- Corresponding author
- Burrows, Malcolm
- ORCID
- Burrows, Malcolm
- Venue
- Oxford University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 1996-09-26
- OpenAlex
- W4205910582
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- 479
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- FWCI
- 7.31
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
- Keywords
- insect brain, locusts, insect nervous system, neural development, embryonic development, sensory integration, neural circuits, neurosecretion, insect behavior, insect locomotion, comparative neurobiology
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