AUTHOR=Pirtle Thomas J. 

TITLE=A review of the circuit-level and cellular mechanisms contributing to locomotor acceleration in the marine mollusk Clione limacina

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Neuroscience

VOLUME=16

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2022.1072974

DOI=10.3389/fnins.2022.1072974

ISSN=1662-453X

ABSTRACT=<p>The pteropod mollusk, <italic>Clione limacina</italic>, is a useful model system for understanding the neural basis of behavior. Of particular interest are the unique swimming behavior and neural circuitry that underlies this swimming behavior. The swimming system of <italic>Clione</italic> has been studied by two primary groups—one in Russia and one in the United States of America—for more than four decades. The neural circuitry, the cellular properties, and ion channels that create and change the swimming locomotor rhythm of <italic>Clione</italic>—particularly mechanisms that contribute to swimming acceleration—are presented in this review.</p>