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The Crayfish Muscle Receptor Organ (MRO):- Model for the Membrane, Receptor, Circuit, and Behavioural Levels

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Frontiers in Crustacean Neurobiology

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The crayfish muscle receptor organ is one of the classical preparations of neuroethology (Fields, 1976). Experiments on the receptors underpin much of our basic understanding of receptor function and the receptors still provide an outstanding model for contemporary questions about receptor physiology. We have been using them as models to examine the toxicology of ethanol and carbon monoxide at the receptor level. We have also been using them to examine the effects of neuromodulators on primary receptor output. Following their discovery, considerable work was done on receptor connectivity and its relation to complex behavioural interactions controlling the abdomen. A sound information base was established. Developments in technique have now opened up further opportunities for progress. We are examining the basis of two local reflexes.

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  1. Zoology Department, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, Australia

    David L. Macmillan

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  1. Zoologisches Institut, Universität Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King Platz 3, D-2000, Hamburg 13, Germany

    K. Wiese

  2. Zoologisches Institut, Universität Basel, Rheinsprung 9, CH-4051, Basel, Switzerland

    W.-D. Krenz

  3. Fakultät für Biologie, Universität Konstanz, Postfach 5560, D-7750, Konstanz, Germany

    J. Tautz

  4. Laboratoire de Neurobiologie, Département de Biologie Animale, Université de Genève, 20, rue Ecole de Médecine, CH-1211, Genève 4, Switzerland

    H. Reichert

  5. Zoology Department, University of California at Davis, 95616, Davis, CA, USA

    B. Mulloney

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Macmillan, D.L. (1990). The Crayfish Muscle Receptor Organ (MRO):- Model for the Membrane, Receptor, Circuit, and Behavioural Levels. In: Wiese, K., Krenz, WD., Tautz, J., Reichert, H., Mulloney, B. (eds) Frontiers in Crustacean Neurobiology. Advances in Life Sciences. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-5689-8_7

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