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  • Title: The neurobiology of feeding in leeches.
    Author: Lent CM, Dickinson MH.
    Journal: Sci Am; 1988 Jun; 258(6):98-103. PubMed ID: 3051355.
    Abstract:
    How does a simple nervous system control a behavior? In the bloodsucking medicinal leech a single neurotransmitter, serotonin, has been found to orchestrate the animal's search for a target, the movements of its jaws, the filling of its crop and even the distension of its body that eventually tells the leech enough is enough.
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