A list of papers describing the nervous systems and behaviors of opisthobranch molluscs, with particular focus on nudibranchs.  Assembled in Spring 2019 for Slug Club journal clubs, it is not exhaustive.

Alkon, D. L.(1973) Neural organization of a molluscan visual system. J. Gen. Physiol. 6 1: 444-461

Alkon, DL (1974) Associative Training of Hermissenda.  J. Gen Physiol. 64: 70-84.

Alkon, D. L. AND Fuortes, M. G. F. (1972) Responses of photoreceptors in Hermissenda. J. Gen. Physiol. 60: 631-649

Alania, MA, Panchin, YV, Sakharov, DA (1999) Pleural-buccal interneurons in the pteropod mollusc Clione limacine. J. Comp. Physiol. A. 185:267-275.

Bailey, CH, Castellucci, VF, koester, J, Kandel, ER (1979) Cellular studies of peripheral neurons in siphon skin of Aplysia californica. J. Neurophysiol. 42: 530-557.

Baltzley, MJ, Sherman, A, Cain, SD, Lohmann, KJ (2011) Conservation of a Tritonia pedal peptides network in gastropods. Invert. Biol. 130:313-324

Barth (1964) Intracellular recording from photoreceptor neurons in the eyes of a nudibranch mollusc (Hermissenda crassicornis). Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 11: 311-315

Bernheim, SM, Mayeri, E (1995) Complex behavior induced by egg-laying hormone in Aplysia. J. Comp. Physiol. A. 176:131-136.

Blake, J (2001) Fluid mechanics of ciliary propulsion. Computational Modeling in Biological Fluid Dynamics. Edited by: Fauci LJ; Gueron S. Series: IMA Volumes In Mathematics And Its Applications 124:1-51.

Brembs, B, Lorenzetti, FD, Reyes, FD, Baxter, DA,Byrne, JH (2002) Operant Reward Learning in Aplysia: Neuronal Correlates and Mechanisms Science 296:1706-1709.

Cappell, MS, Spray DC, Susswein, AJ, Bennett, MVL (1989) Neuronal analysis of pharyngeal peristalsis in the gastropod Navanax in terms of identified motoneurons innervating identified muscle bands. II. Radial and circumferential motor fields. Brain Res. 502: 266-279

Cavallo, JS, Hamilton, BN, Farley, J (2014) In vitro extinction learning in Hermissenda: involvement of conditioned inhibition molecules. Front. Behav. Neurosci. 8: 354.

Chase, R (1974) The electrophysiology of photoreceptors in the nudibranch mollusc, Tritonia diomedia. J. Exp. Biol. 60: 707-719.

Connor & Stevens (1971) Voltage clamp studies of a transient outward membrane current in gastropod neural somata. J. Physiol. 213:21-30.

Crow, T and Alkon, D (1978) Retention of an associative behavioral change in Hermissenda. Science 201: 1239-1241

Crow, T, Tian, L-M (200) Monosynaptic connections between identified a and b photoreceptors and interneurons in Hermissenda: Evidence for labeled-lines.  J. Neurophysiol. 84: 367-375.

Crow, T and Tian, L-M (2002) Morphological characteristics and central projections of two types of interneurons in the visual pathway of Hermissenda.  J. Neurophysiol. 87:322

Crow, T and Tian, L-M (2003) Interneuronal projections to identified cilia-activating pedal neurons in Hermissenda. J. Neurophysiol. 89:2420

Crow, T and Tian, L-M (2004) Statocyst hair cell activation of identified interneurons and foot contraction motor neurons in Hermissenda. J. Neurophysiol. 92: 2874-2883.

Crow, T, Jin, NG, and Tian, L-M (2012) Network interneurons underlying ciliary locomotion in Hermissenda J. Neurophysiol. 109:640

Dennis, MJ (1967) Electrophysiology of the visual system in a nudibranch mollusc. J. Neurophysiol. 30:1439-1465

Deliagina, TG, Arshavsky, YI, Orlovsky, GN (1998) Control of spatial orientation in a mollusc. Nature 393:172-175.

Detwiler and Alkon (1973) Hair cell inter- actions in the statocyst of Hermissenda. J. Gen. Physiol. 62: 618-642

Drushel, RF, Neustadter, DM, Shallenberger, LL, Crago, PE, Chiel, HJ (1997) The kinematics of swallowing in the buccal mass of Aplysia californica. J. Exp. Biol. 200:735-752.

Elliott, CJH, Susswein, JA (2002) Comparative neuroethology of feeding control in molluscs. J. Exp. Biol. 205: 877–896.

Fong, PP, Bury, TB, Dworkin-Brodsky, AD, Jasion, CM, Kell, RC (2015) The antidepressants venlafaxine (“Effexor”) and fluoxetine (“Prozac”) produce different effects on locomotion in two species of marine snail, the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea) and the starsnail (Lithopoma americanum). Mar. Env. Res. 103:89-94.

Frysztak, RJ, Crow, T (1997) Synaptic Enhancement and Enhanced Excitability in Presynaptic and Postsynaptic Neurons in the Conditioned Stimulus Pathway of Hermissenda. J. Neurosci. 17: 4426-4433.

Getting PA (1983). Mechanisms of pattern generation underlying swimming in Tritonia. III. Intrinsic and synaptic mechanisms for delayed excitation. J. Neurophysiol 49: 1036-1050.

Getting PA, Lennard PR, Hume RI (1980) Central pattern generator mediating swimming in Tritonia I. Identification and synaptic interactions. J Neurophysiol 44:151-164

Goh and Alkon, DL (1984) Sensory, interneuronal, and motor interactions within Hemissenda visual pathway.  J. Neurophysiol 52: 156-169.

Gotoh, T and Nishi,T (2001) Light-dependent k channels in the mollusc Onchidium simple photoreceptors are opened by cGMP J. Gen. Physiol. 120: 581–597

Green, DJ, Huang, RC, Sudlow, L, Hatcher, N, Potgieter, K, McCrohan, C, Lee, C, Romanova, EV, Sweedler, JV, Gillette, MLU, Gillette, R (2018)  AMP, Ca²⁺, pH_i, and NO regulate h-like cation channels that underlie feeding and locomotion in the predatory sea slug Pleurobranchaea californica. ACS Chem. Neurosci. 9:1986-1993

Gunaratne, C, Sakai, A, Katz, PS (2014) Comparative mapping of GABA-immunoreactive neurons in the central nervous systems of nudibranch molluscs.  J. Comp. Neurol 522: 794-810.

Harris, CA, Passaro, PA, Kemenes, I, Kemenes, G, O’Shea, M (2010) Sensory driven multi-neuronal activity and associative learning monitored in an intact CNS on a multielectrode array.  J. Neurosci. Meth. 186:171-178.

HENING, W.A., WALTERS, E.T., CAREW, T.J., AND KANDEL, E. R. (1979) Motomeuronal control of locomotion in Aplysia. Brain Res. 179: 23 l-253.

Hill, E. S., Sakurai, A., & Katz, P. S. (2008). Transient enhancement of spike-evoked calcium signaling by a serotonergic interneuron. Journal of neurophysiology, 100: 2919-28.

Hodgson, TM, Crow, T (1991) Characterization of 4 light-responsive putative motor neurons in the pedal ganglia of Hermissenda crassicornis. Brain Res. 557: 255-264.

Jerussi and Alkon, DL (1981) Ocular and extraocular responses of identifiable neurons in pedal ganglia of Hermissenda crassicornis. J. Neurophysiol. 46:659

Jing, J, and Gillette, R (2003) Directional avoidance turns encoded by single interneurons and sustained by multifunctional serotonergic cells. J. Neurosci. 23: 3039-3051.

Jing, J, and Gillette, R (2000) Escape swim network interneurons have diverse roles in behavioral switching and putative arousal in Pleurobranchaea. J. Neurophysiol. 83: 1346-1355

Katz, PS (2016) Phylogenetic plasticity in the evolution of molluscan neural circuits. Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 41: 8-16.

Katz, PS, Fickbohm, DJT, Lynn-Bullock, CP (2001) Evidence that the central pattern generator for swimming in Tritonia arose from a non-rhythmic neuromodulatory arousal system. Implications for the evolution of specialized Behavior. Am. Zool. 41:962-975.

Kempf, SC, Page, LR, Pires, A (1997) Development of Serotonin-Like Immunoreactivity in the embryos and larvae of nudibranch mollusks with emphasis on the structure and possible function of the apical sensory organ. J. Comp. Neurol. 386:507

Koester, J, Mayeri, E, Kupfermann, I, Liebeswar, G, Kandel, ER (1974) Neural control of circulation in Aplysia .II. Interneurons. J. Neurophysiol. 37: 476-496.

Kriegstein (1977) Development of the nervous system of Aplysia californica Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 74:375

Kristof, A, Klussman-Kolb, A (2010) Neuromuscular development of Aeolidiella stephanieae Valdéz, 2005 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Nudibranchia) Front. Zool. 7:5

Lederhendler, S Gart and DL Alkon (1986) Classical conditioning of Hermissenda: origin of a new response. J. Neurosci. 6:1325-1331

Lennard PR, Getting PA, Hume RI (1980) Central pattern generator mediating swimming in Tritonia. II. Initiation, maintenance, and termination, J Neurophysiol 44:165-173

Lewis, SL, Lyons, DE, Meekins, TL, Newcomb, JM (2011) Serotonin Influences Locomotion in the Nudibranch Mollusc Melibe leonina . Biol. Bull. 220:155-160

Lissmann, HW (1945) The mechanism of locomotion in gastropod molluscs .2. Kinetics. J. Exp. Biol. 22: 37-50.

Lissmann, HW (1945) The mechanism of locomotion in gastropod molluscs .1. Kinematics. J. Exp. Biol. 21:58-69.

Lloyd, PE, Phares, GA, Phillips, NE, Willows, AOD (1996) Purification and sequencing of neuropeptides from identified neurons in the marine mollusc, Tritonia. Peptides 17:17-23

Longley (2014) Pedal sole immunoreactive axons in terrestrial pulmonates: Limax, Arion, and Helix. BiolBull 226: 19

Mayeri, E, Koester, J, Kupfermann, I, Liebeswar, G, Kandel, ER (1974) Neural control of circulation in Aplysia .I. Motoneurons. J. Neurophysiol. 37: 458-475.

McClellan, A. D., G. D. Brown, and P. A. Getting. 1994. Modulation of swimming in Tritonia: excitatory and inhibitory effects of serotonin. J. Comp. Physiol. A 174: 257–266

Moroz, LL, Gyori, J, Salanki, J, Rozsa, K, (1992) Glutamate-sensitive neurons in the molluscan SNS. Biologicheskie Membrany 9: 1121-1122.

Murray, Willows (1996) Function of identified nerves in orientation to water flow in Tritonia diomedea. J. Comp. Physiol. 178:201

Nagahama, T, Weiss, KR, Kupfermann, I (1993) Effects of cerebral neuron C-PR on body postural muscles associated with a food-induced arousal state in Aplysia. J. Neurophysiol. 70:1231-1243.

Newcomb, JM, Lawrence, KA, Watson, WH (2004) The influence of light on locomotion in the gastropod Melibe leonina. Mar. Fresh. Behav. Physiol. 37: 253–269

Norekian, TP, Satterlie, RA (2001) Serotonergic neural system not only activates swimming but also inhibits competing neural centers in a pteropod mollusc. Am. Zool. 41:993-1000.

Pavlova (2001) Effects of serotonin, dopamine and ergometrine on locomotion in the pulmonate mollusc Helix lucorum. J. Exp. Biol. 204:1625

Pavlova, GA, Glantz, RM, Willows, AOD (2011) Responses to magnetic stimuli recorded in peripheral nerves in the marine nudibranch mollusk Tritonia diomedea. J. Comp. Physiol. A 197:979–986.

Popescu, IR, Willows, AOD (1999) Sources of magnetic sensory input to identified neurons active during crawling in the marine mollusc Tritonia diomedea. J. Exp. Biol. 202:3029-3036.

Popova, LB, Panchin, YV (1998) FITC-labelled alpha-bungarotoxin visualization of neurons in the central nervous system of pteropodial mollusc Clione limacine. Zhurnal Vysshei Nervnoi Deyatelnosti Imeni I P Pavlova 48:352-357.

Redondo, RL, Murray, JA (2005) Pedal neuron 3 serves a significant role in effecting turning during crawling by the marine slug Tritonia diomedea (Bergh) J. Comp. Physiol. A. 191:435-444

Sakurai, A, Katz, PS (2017) Artificial synaptic rewiring demonstrates that distinct neural circuit configurations underlie homologous behaviors Curr. Biol. 27:1721.

Sakurai, A, Katz, PS (2016) The central pattern generator underlying swimming in Dendronotus iris: a simple half-center network oscillator with a twist. J. Neurophysiol. 116:1728-1742

Samarova, EI, Zhukov, VV, Sudoplatov, KA (2005) Serotoninergic mechanism in the central link of the shadow reflex in Lymnaea stagnalis. L. J. Evol. Biochem. Physiol. 41:169-175.

Satterlie, RA (1991) Electrophysiology of swim musculature in the pteropod mollusk Clione limacina. J. Exp. Biol.159:285-301.

Satterlie, RA (1993) Neuromuscular organization in the swimming system of the pteropod mollusk Clione limacina. J. Exp. Biol. 181:119-140.

Satterlie, RA (2015) Organization of the dorsoventral musculature in the wings of the pteropod mollusc Clione limacine. Invert. Biol. 134:282-290.

Satterlie, RA, Norekian, TP (1996) Modulation of swimming speed in the pteropod mollusc, Clione limacina: Role of a compartmental serotonergic system. Invert. Neurosci. 2:157-165.

Satterlie, RA, Norekian, TP, Jordan, S, Kazilek, CJ (1995) Serotonergic modulation of swimming speed in the pteropod mollusk Clione limacina .1. Serotonin immunoreactivity in the central-nervous-system and wings. J. Exp. Biol. 198:895-904.

Schuman, EM, Clark, GA (1994) Synaptic facilitation at connections of Hermissenda Type-B photoreceptors. J. Neurosci. 14: 1613-1622.

Schultz, LM, Butson, CR, Clark, GA  (2001) Post-light Potentiation at Type B to A Photoreceptor Connections in Hermissenda. Neurobiol. Learn. Mem. 76: 7-32.

Serb, JM (2008) Toward developing models to study the disease, ecology, and evolution of the eye in mollusca. Am. Malacol. Bull. 26: 3-18.

Straub, VA, and Benjamin, PR (2001) Extrinsic modulation and motor pattern generation in a feeding network: a cellular study. J. Neurosci. 21: 1767-1778.

Tamvacakis, AN, Senatore, A, Katz, PS (2018) Single neuron serotonin receptor subtype gene expression correlates with behavior within and across three molluscan species Proc. R. Soc. B 285: 20180791.

Teyke, T, Weiss, KR, Kupfermann, I (1992) Orientation of Aplysia californica to distant food sources. J. Comp. Physiol. A. 170:281-289.

Wang, JH, Cain, SD, Lohmann, KJ (2003) Identification of magnetically responsive neurons in the marine mollusc Tritonia diomedea. J. Exp. Biol. 206:381-388.

Wang, JH, Cain, SD, Lohmann, KJ (2004) Identifiable neurons inhibited by Earth-strength magnetic stimuli in the mollusc Tritonia diomedea J. Exp. Biol. 207:1043-1049.

Willows, AOD (1985) Neural control of behavioral responses in the nudibranch mollusc Phestilla sibogae. J. Neurobiol. 16: 157-170.

Willows, AOD, Pavlova, GA, Phillips, NE (1997) Modulation of ciliary beat frequency by neuropeptides from identified molluscan neurons. J. Exp. Biol. 200:1433-1439.

Woodward, OM, Willows, AOD (2006) Dopamine modulation of Ca²⁺ dependent Cl- current regulates ciliary beat frequency controlling locomotion in Tritonia diomedea. J. Exp. Biol. 209:2749-2764.

Woodward, OM, Willows, AOD (2006) Nervous control of ciliary beating by Cl– , Ca2+ and calmodulin in Tritonia diomedea. J. Exp. Biol. 209:2765-2773.

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Wyeth, RC, Woodward, OM, Willows, AOD (2006) Orientation and navigation relative to water flow, prey, conspecifics, and predators by the nudibranch mollusc Tritonia diomedea: Biol. Bull. 210:97-108.

Zakharov, IS, Ierusalimsky, VN (1992) The neuroanatomical basis of feeding-behavior in the pteropod mollusk, Clione limacina (Phipps) J. Comp. Physiol. A. 170:525-532.

Zhou, ZY, Mittal, R, (2018) Swimming performance and unique wake topology of the sea hare (Aplysia). Phys. Rev. Fluids 3:033102

Zhou & Mittal (2018) Swimming without a spine: computational modeling and analysis of the swimming hydrodynamics of the Spanish Dancer. Bioinspir. Biomim. 13:015001