title: Invertebrate neurobiology: sensory processing in reverse for backward walking.
abstract: Humans and many other animals can readily walk forward or backward. In insects, the nervous system changes the effects of sense organs that signal forces on a leg when the direction of walking is reversed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy and Pathology, Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia 25701, USA. Sensillum@aol.com
authors.forename: Sasha N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Zill
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D005121:Extremities / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007313:Insecta / Q000145:classification / Q000502:physiology*; D009046:Motor Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000502:physiology*; D016138:Walking / Q000502:physiology*; D016474:Weight-Bearing