SOME OTHER PUBLICATIONS (those not included in the "Research" section)

Comer Lab

Crish, S., Comer, C.M., Marasco, P.D. and Catania, K.C. (2003) A tactiletectum? somatosensation in the superior colliculus of the star-nosed mole. J. Comp. Neurol. 464:415-425 Artwohl J., Hill T., Comer C.M., and Park, T. (2002) Naked mole-rats: Unique opportunities and husbandry challenges. Lab Anim 31(5):32-36. King, J.R. and Comer, C.M. (1996) Visually elicited turning behavior in Rana pipiens: Comparative organization and neural control of escape and prey capture. J. Comp. Physiol. 178:293-305. Comer, C., Mara, E., Murphy, K.A., Getman, M. and Mungy, M.C. (1994) Multisensory control of escape in the cockroach Periplaneta americana. II. Patterns of touch-evoked behavior. J. Comp. Physiol. 174:13-26. Stierle, I.E., Getman. M. and Comer, C. (1994) Multisensory control of escape in the cockroach Periplaneta americana. I. Initial evidence from patterns of wind-evoked behavior. J. Comp. Physiol. 174:1-11. Keegan, A. and Comer, C. (1993) The wind-elicited escape response of cockroaches (Periplaneta americana) is influenced by lesions rostral to the escape circuit. Brain Res. 620:310-316. Comer, CM and Dowd, JP (1992) Multisensory processing for movement: Antennal and cercal mediation of escape turning in the cockroach. Biological Neural Networks in Invertebrates: Neurethology and Robotics Beer, R, Ritzmann, R, and McKenna, T (eds). Academic Press.

Motion tracking system for recording neural activity from
behaving (escaping) insects. Design of chronic electrode
that is placed around an interganglionic connective is shown
at upper left (inset). [see Ye & Comer, 1996; Ye et al., 1995]

Burdohan, J.A. and Comer, C. (1990) An antennal-derived mechanosensory pathway in the cockroach: descending interneurons as a substrate for evasive behavior. Brain Res. 535:247-352. Stubblefield, G.T. and Comer, C. (1989) Organization of giant interneuron projections in thoracic ganglia of the cockroach, Periplaneta americana. J. Morphol. 200:199-213. Comer, CM, Dowd, JP, and Stubblefield, GT (1988) Escape responses following elimination of the giant interneuron pathway in the cockroach, Periplaneta americana. Brain Res. 445, 370-375. Dowd, JP and Comer, CM (1988) The neural basis of orienting behavior: A computational approach to the escape turn of the cockroach. Biol. Cybern. 60, 37-48. Smith, SR, Dowd, JP, Wheeler, BC, and Comer, CM (1988) Analysis of multi-unit data from a neural ensemble controlling directed movement. IEEE Conf. Engr. Med. Biol. 10, 1171-1172. Comer, CM and Dowd, JP (1987) Escape turning behavior of the cockroach. Changes in directionality induced by unilateral lesions of the abdominal nervous system. J. Comp. Physiol. 160, 571-583. Comer, C. (1987) Sensorimotor functions: What is a command that a code may yield it? commentary in: Behav. Brain Sci. 10:372. Comer, C. (1985) Processing spatial sensory information in an insect CNS. Proc. 7th IEEE Conf. Engr. Med. Biol. pp. 69-73. Comer, C. (1985) Analyzing cockroach escape behavior with lesions of individual giant interneurons. Brain Res. 335:342-346.