Swimming movements in the leech and lamprey are highly analogous, and lack homology.
Thus, similarities in mechanisms must arise from convergent evolution rather than from …

Abstract The American cockroach, Periplaneta americana, provides a successful model for
the study of legged locomotion. Sensory regulation and the relative importance of sensory …

Drosophila larvae crawl by peristaltic waves of muscle contractions, which propagate along
the animal body and involve the simultaneous contraction of the left and right side of each …

Animals' ability to demonstrate both stereotyped and adaptive locomotor behavior is largely
dependent on the interplay between centrally generated motor patterns and the sensory …

The neuronal connectivity dataset of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans attracts wide
attention from computational neuroscientists and experimentalists. However, the dataset is …

A multi-disciplinary look at the current state of knowledge regarding motor control and
movement—from molecular biology to robotics The last two decades have seen a dramatic …

In this report we posed the overarching question: What multiple contributions can a single
neuron have on controlling the behavior of an animal, especially within a given context? To …

In tetrapods, limb and axial movements are coordinated during locomotion. It is well
established that inter-and intralimb coordination show considerable variations during …

Animals frequently switch from one behavior to another, often to meet the demands of their
changing environment or internal state. What factors control these behavioral switches and …

Motor behaviors result from information processing that occurs in multiple neural networks
acting at all levels from the initial selection of the behavior to its final generation. A long …