Behavioral Neuroscience Summers

Turtle Eyeblink Behavior Sensory Stimulation of Eyeblink Eyeblink Motor Output Neuromuscular Function

In vitro Conditioning Glu ACh BDNF

text:Kandel pages 1243 & 849 Turtles and Ecology Eyeblink Circuitry end     Acronyms/Abbreviations

Pictures of Pond Turtles Chrysemys    back to

Chrysemys Species:
1) C. picta

2) C. scripta

Chrysemys habitat:
1) C. picta basking on log in pond

2) C. scripta on a lake shore

Nest building:
1) C. picta digging

Chrysemys are evolutionarily old
1) Chrysemys fossils from miocene Nebraska > 5 million years old