The segmental network generating locomotor rhythmicity in the lamprey.
Presence of low voltage activated calcium channels distinguishes touch from pressure sensory neurons in the lamprey spinal cord.
When lights were flashed at the robot, the lamprey brain cells learned how to control the motors.
During the anguilliform locomotion, the whole body participates in large amplitude undulations, which is common in eels and lampreys.
These help lampreys to orientate themselves in water.
Despite having only a few nerve cells from the sea lamprey it has already learned to follow or avoid lights.
The molecular genetic basis of photoreception in lampreys is now the subject of intense study in our laboratory.
Whether solely ipsilateral projections from a collothalamic component of the dorsal thalamus to the striatum are present in lampreys, as they are in amphibians, remains to be investigated.
