... of Biologists 2001 caridoid escape response tail-flip acceleration crustacean swimming locomotion force transducer California spiny lobster Panulirus interruptus The tail-flip escape behavior is a stereotyped motor act that is a key feature of eumalocostracans ( Heitler et al., 2000...

... unidentified abdominal trunk motoneurons, but less reliably. The escape response is a key feature of the malacostracan caridoid facies, and we provide the first detailed description of this response in a group that diverged early in malacostracan evolution. We show that the components of the escape response...