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1182 The Journal of Experimental Biology 213, 1182-1194 © 2010. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd doi:10.1242/jeb.040378

Octopamine promotes rhythmicity but not synchrony in a bilateral pair of bursting motor neurons in the feeding circuit of Aplysia C. Martínez-Rubio, G. E. Serrano* and M. W. Miller† 1

Institute of Neurobiology and Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus, 201 Blvd del Valle, San Juan, 00901, Puerto Rico *Present address: Department of Pharmacology, Emory University, School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA † Author for correspondence ([email protected])

Accepted 8 December 2009 SUMMARY Octopamine-like immunoreactivity was localized to a limited number (