PMID: 8592306Feb 1, 1996Paper

Analysis of surface wave direction by the lateral line system of Xenopus: source localization before and after inactivation of different parts of the lateral line

Journal of Comparative Physiology. A, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology
Barbara Claas, Heinrich Münz

Abstract

The turning responses of clawed toads (Xenopus laevis) to surface waves were examined in animals with an intact lateral line or with different combinations of lateral lines reversibly inactivated by CoCl2. The responses were characterized with respect to response frequency, turning accuracy, turning side, response time, and swim distance. After the inactivation most animals still responded to surface waves but the responses were different from those of animals with an intact lateral line. They also differed according to the combination of inactivated lines. In all experiments the responses for stimuli in some sectors of the surface did not differ from controls. The location of these sectors co-varied with the position of the intact lines, i.e., normal responses were found for frontal stimulus directions when head lines were intact and for caudolateral stimulus directions when trunk lines were intact. Their size was larger when lines on both sides of the body were intact and smaller when only lines on one side were intact. When the number of functional lines was reduced to one or two on one side of the body the turning angles shown within the sector of normal responses were maintained for stimulus directions outside these sector...Continue Reading

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