What is it about?
We tested whether sense organs called muscle receptor organs (MROs) would affect how crayfish swam. They swam very slightly slower.
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Why is it important?
Muscle receptor organs looked like they should be part of a reflex feedback loop, but other experiments cast doubt on that. So this paper asked, "Well, if they aren't used in a reflex, what else might they do?"
Perspectives
The main thing I remember about this paper today was that I spend a long time analyzing data that turned out to be completely spurious. Which taught me: always do the controls first.
Zen Faulkes
The Umiversity of Texas Rio Grande Valley
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This page is a summary of: Effects of Removal of Muscle Receptor Organ Input on the Temporal Structure of Non-Giant Swimming Cycles in the Crayfish, Cherax Destructor, Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology, January 2002, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/1023624021000014734.
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