Here we describe the dissection of the crayfish abdominal nerve cord. We also demonstrate an electrophysiological technique to record fictive locomotion from swimmeret motor neurons.
Seichter, H. A., Blumenthal, F., Smarandache-Wellmann, C. R. The Swimmeret System of Crayfish: A Practical Guide for the Dissection of the Nerve Cord and Extracellular Recordings of the Motor Pattern. J. Vis. Exp. (93), e52109, doi:10.3791/52109 (2014).