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Numbers and central projections of crab second maxilla motor Neurones

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

J. B. Pilkington  and
D. W. MacFarlane
J. B. Pilkington
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
D. W. MacFarlane
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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The second maxilla is innervated typically by 35 motor neurones in Nectocarcinus antarcticus and about 39 in Cancer novaezelandiae. Muscles are multiply innervated. Within one species variations in the number of motor neurones innervating any muscle do occur but are not common.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 58 , Issue 3 , August 1978 , pp. 571 - 584
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1978

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