Motor innervation within supernumerary legs of cockroaches.

J. Westin*, J. M. Camhi

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Abstract

1. Clusters of legs having prothoracic and metathoracic origins were grown from the metathoracic coxa of the cockroach. 2. Or occasionally two, of the three major nerves innervating the cockroach leg. 3. Stimulation of a particular leg nerve (no. 3, 5 or 6) evoked movement at the same joints and in the same directions in a leg having only one nerve as in a normal leg. 4. Stimulation of a particular metathoracic nerve generally produced the same movements in a prothoracic leg transplanted to the metathoracic site as it did in a regenerated or intact metathoracic leg.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)497-503
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of Experimental Biology
Volume63
Issue number2
StatePublished - Oct 1975

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