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The chicken provides an excellent model system for asking questions about how the neural circuitry underlying coordinated motor behaviors is assembled during ontogeny. Several distinctive motor behaviors have been extensively studied, with attention focussed on leg movements. The chick embryo produces 3 types of embryonic motility during the 20 to 21 day incubation period. At the end of the incubation period hatching behavior appears. Within a few hours after hatching, the chick begins to walk.
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Bekoff, A. (1986). Ontogeny of Chicken Motor Behaviours: Evidence for Multi-Use Limb Pattern Generating Circuitry. In: Grillner, S., Stein, P.S.G., Stuart, D.G., Forssberg, H., Herman, R.M. (eds) Neurobiology of Vertebrate Locomotion. Wenner-Gren Center International Symposium Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09148-5_28
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