title: Network modularity: back to the future in motor control.
abstract: Optogenetic analysis has revealed the existence of multiple rhythm-generating neural networks that drive leg motoneuron pools in the lumbar spinal cord of rodents. These findings extend the concept of a modular neural network organization for locomotion from invertebrates and lower vertebrates to mammals.
authors.affiliation: Department of Animal Physiology, Zoological Institute, Biocenter Cologne, Zülpicher Strasse 47b, 50674 Cologne, Germany. Electronic address: ansgar.bueschges@uni-koeln.de.
authors.forename: Ansgar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Büschges
authors.forename: Anke
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Borgmann
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D008124:Locomotion; D009415:Nerve Net