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  • Title: Mechanosensory afferents innervating the swimmerets of the lobster. I. Afferents activated by cuticular deformation.
    Author: Killian KA, Page CH.
    Journal: J Comp Physiol A; 1992 Apr; 170(4):491-500. PubMed ID: 1625221.
    Abstract:
    The mechanosensory innervation of the lobster (Homarus americanus) swimmeret was examined by electrophysiologically recording afferent spike responses initiated by localized mechanical stimulation of the caudal surface of the swimmeret. Two functional groups of subcuticular hypodermal mechanoreceptors innervate the swimmeret. Afferents of one group innervate the small discrete "ridges" of calcified cuticle lining the margins of both swimmeret rami. Putative ridge receptors are bipolar sensory neurons responding phasically to deformation of the ridge cuticle with the number and frequency of impulses produced dependent on stimulus strength and velocity. Afferents of the second group, which innervate substantial areas of hypodermis underlying the soft, flexible cuticular regions of the swimmeret, were designated "wide-field" hypodermal mechanoreceptors. These neurons have multiterminal receptive fields and respond phaso-tonically to cuticular distortion. The response properties of both types of hypodermal mechanoreceptors imply that they are activated during the characteristic beating movements of the swimmerets.
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