Employing the clear, student-friendly style that made previous editions so popular, Insect
Physiology and Biochemistry, Fourth Edition presents an engaging and authoritative guide …

Panarthropods (a clade containing arthropods, tardigrades and onychophorans) can adeptly
move across a wide range of challenging terrains and their ability to do so given their …

Highlights•Stick insects and cockroaches have evolved to walk in very different
environments.•Common neural and biomechanical mechanisms facilitate comparative …

Controlling the six legs of an insect walking in an unpredictable environment is a
challenging task, as many degrees of freedom have to be coordinated. Solutions proposed …

During walking, the leg motor system must continually adjust to changes in mechanical
conditions, such as the inclination of the ground. To understand the underlying control, it is …

Many motor behaviors, and specifically locomotion, are the product of an intricate interplay
between neuronal oscillators known as central pattern generators (CPGs), descending …

The neural control of insect locomotion is distributed among various body segments. Local
pattern-generating circuits at the thoracic ganglia interact with incoming sensory signals and …

The centralization of locomotor control from weak and local coupling to strong and global is
hard to assess outside of particular modeling frameworks. We developed an empirical …

Cockroaches are rapid and stable runners whose gaits emerge from the intricate, and not
fully resolved, interplay between endogenous oscillatory pattern-generating networks and …

Insects are well equipped in walking on complex three-dimensional terrain, allowing them to
overcome obstacles or catch prey. However, the gait transition for insects steering on a wall …