Abstract
The terminal abdominal ganglion of the crayfish, shown by Prosser [40–42] and Welsh [61] to be a photoreceptor, is particularly suitable for studies of receptor organ transfer functions [16, 52–54] (see Fig. 1). It is an extremely primitive system, with no special optical or photochemical organization yet discovered. However, it has been shown to affect the light-avoidance reflex behavior of the crayfish [27]. Since the system shows little or no physiological adaptation, fairly stationary stochastic time series experiments may be performed. Furthermore, the crayfish is small, easily kept in laboratory conditions, and surgically requires neither anesthesia nor elaborate dissection techniques.
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Stark, L. (1968). Transfer Function of a Photoreceptor Ganglion. In: Neurological Control Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0706-8_1
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