Excitatory Motor Neurons are Local Central Pattern Generators in an Anatomically Compressed Motor Circuit for Reverse Locomotion
Shangbang Gao, Sihui Asuka Guan, Anthony D. Fouad, Jun Meng, Taizo Kawano, Yung-Chi Huang, Yi Li, Salvador Alcaire, Wesley Hung, Yangning Lu, Yingchuan Billy Qi, Yishi Jin, Mark J. Alkema, Christopher M. Fang-Yen, Mei Zhen
The paper identifies class A motor neurons in C. elegans as intrinsic oscillators driving reverse locomotion without premotor interneurons.
eLife · Nov 28, 2017Peer-reviewedNeuroscience