femoral chordotonal claw neuron [FBbt_00049557]

femoral chordotonal claw neuron

ID: FBbt_00049557

Femoral chordotonal organ (FeCO) neuron with a projection that splits into three branches upon entering the ventral nerve cord, giving it a claw-like morphology (Phillis et al., 1996; Mamiya et al., 2018). One branch follows the direction of the club neurons medially, another projects dorsally and another anteriorly (Mamiya et al., 2018). Its soma is found in a characteristic blade-shaped strip along the long axis of the femur (Mamiya et al., 2018). It encodes sensory information about tibial position (Agrawal et al., 2020).