Complex motor behaviors can be assembled from simpler repeating elements controlled by pattern-generation circuits operating at different time scales.

The nervous system circuitry that controls locomotion has evolved to intrinsically generate an optimal search pattern for resources.

The dynamic current generated Na⁺/K⁺ pump interacts with the h-current to control the bursting activity of oscillator heart interneurons.

Although courtship vocalizations are unique to each species, the basic architecture of the neural circuitries underlying this behavior is conserved among closely related species of frogs, suggesting behavior can diverge while utilizing the homologous neural network inherited through evolutionary lineage.

Motoneuron activity provides feedback to the spinal network responsible for generating locomotion in the developing mouse spinal cord.

Laser-ablating neurons of a single genetic class reveals that Dbx1-derived interneurons comprise core respiratory rhythmogenic and premotor circuits and provides quantitative cellular parameters that govern network functionality

Coordinated activation and deactivation of inhibitory neurons triggers sequential muscle contractions that enable fruit fly larvae to propel themselves backwards and forwards.

Turning in an insect is the combined result of body-side-specific modifications in processing of local sensory feedback, and modification of local central pattern generator activity.

Inspiratory rhythmogenesis is mediated by an emergent mechanism independent of bursts associated with motor output and is modulated by opioids, pointing to strategies for ameliorating opioid-induced respiratory depression.

An integrative model of coordinated crawling in fruit fly maggots links neuromuscular dynamics to body-substrate mechanics in the presence of proprioceptive feedback.