title: [Peculiarities of the structural-functional organization of motor neuropil of dragonfly thoracic ganglia].
abstract: The work considers the structural-functional relations existing in the motor neuropil of thoracic ganglia of dragonflies - the animals able to perform very complex and fast maneuvers in the flight. The motor neuropil in dragonflies is shown to be more differentiated than in the lees mobile insects, while motor nuclei in neuropil are more clearly outlined and closer to each other. There are revealed dendrites of motoneurons of pedal muscles (the middle nucleus), which are running into the anterior and posterior nuclei that contain dendrites of motoneurons of wing muscles. A possible role of such approaching is discussed for close functional interaction of wing and foot muscles, which is necessary to dragonflies during flight at their catching of large insects with aid of legs. Peculiarities are considered in structural organization of motoneurons of wing muscles dragonflies and locusts, which indicate the greater functional possibilities peculiar to motoneurons of the dragonflies motor apparatus.
authors.forename: S I
authors.initials: SI
authors.lastname: Plotnikova
authors.forename: V L
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Sviderskiĭ
authors.forename: V S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Gorelkin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017952:Ganglia, Invertebrate / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D019581:Neuropil / Q000166:cytology*; D063191:Odonata / Q000033:anatomy & histology*