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Q: If stomatopod crustaceans do not have myelination, how come their reaction is so fast?

Egor SozonovAs far as I understand, there are only two known ways of achieving fast nerve signal transmittance (and hence fast reaction time) in animals larger than ~10 cm: either myelination (as in vertebrates) or really thick neurons (like in cephalopods). However, stomatopods are both quite large and have...

 

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