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- Title
Behavioural and network plasticity following conditioning of the aerial respiratory response of a pulmonate mollusc<sup>1</sup>.
- Authors
Spencer, G.E.; Rothwell, C.M.
- Abstract
Most molluscs perform respiration using gills, but the pulmonate molluscs have developed a primitive lung with which they perform pulmonary respiration. The flow of air into this lung occurs through an opening called the pneumostome, and pulmonate molluscs travel to the surface of the water to obtain oxygen from the surrounding atmosphere. The aerial respiratory behaviour of the pulmonate mollusc, the great pond snail ( Lymnaea stagnalis (L., 1758)), has been well studied, and a three-neuron central pattern generator (CPG) controlling this rhythmic behaviour has been identified. The aerial respiratory behaviour of L. stagnalis can be operantly conditioned and plasticity within the CPG has been associated with the conditioned response. In this review, we describe both the aerial respiratory behaviour and the underlying neuronal network of this pulmonate mollusc, and then discuss both the behavioural and network plasticity that results from the conditioning of this behaviour.
- Subjects
MOLLUSKS; RESPIRATION; NEUROPLASTICITY; OPERANT conditioning; CENTRAL pattern generators; CONDITIONED response; ANIMAL behavior
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Zoology, 2013, Vol 91, Issue 6, p382
- ISSN
0008-4301
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1139/cjz-2012-0291