THE INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE OF WALKING IN THE LOCUST - AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE COMMAND CONCEPT
THE INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE OF WALKING IN THE LOCUST - AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE COMMAND CONCEPT
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10.1098/rspb.1983.0065
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1983-01-01
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KIEN, J
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KIEN, J
Adult Schistocerca were tethered and allowed to walk on a styrofoam ball. Animals with both neck connectives cut could still walk. No descending fibers from the head ganglia are necessary to initiate walking. The roles of the brain and subesophageal ganglion (so.g.) in walking were examined with the use of extracellular microstimulation. Pulses lasting 0.1 ms were delivered to single fiber neck or circumesophageal (co.) connectives. The calculated 1st approximation maximum area of current spread was a sphere 1.5 .mu.m in diameter. Double-recording experiments indicated that usually 1-3 and maximally 7 fibers were stimulated. Walking, jumping, struggling or grooming was evoked from different electrode positions. The effects were reproducible at each position while some behaviors were reproducible from animal to animal. These latter were grouped (evoked by the same ''locus''.). At 7 loci, termed subroutine'' loci, only specific movements were evoked in a resting animal. When the animal was active these movements were incorporated into the ongoing behavior. Loci evoking walking (73) were derived from 163 stimulating positions. Ten loci were common to both connectives, 37 were found only in the co. connective and 26 only in the neck connective. At most neck connective positions several such trains to continual stimulation were required to evoke walking. Increasing the stimulus frequency above the optimum produced abnormal movements or struggling. There was no evidence that the behavior evoked depended on stimulus frequency. The 73 loci evoked different types of walking or turning. Parameters of leg movement, of coordination and of coupling between the sides (as in turning), even the phase of the local pattern generators, can be determined by influence from the head ganglia. The effectiveness of stimulation at each locus depended on the behavioral context at the time of stimulation, e.g, most loci were ineffective in evoking their type of walking if the animal was already walking or otherwise active. They may suppress other behaviors. Experiments where lesions were combined with microstimulation suggested that both the brain and the so.g. contribute recommendations initiating and determining the type of walking and in mixing information from both brain and so.g. halves and distributing it to both sides of the body. Walking is probably normally inititated by many fibers acting in consensus, sending their recommendations for specific walking types to the local pattern generators giving the system the ability to match walking output to a large variety of inputs, therefore providing the flexibility required of any model purporting to explain this enormously adaptable behavior.