TY - JOUR
T1 - Stereotyped Combination of Hearing and Wind/Gravity-Sensing Neurons in the Johnston’s Organ of Drosophila
AU - Ishikawa, Yuki
AU - Fujiwara, Mao
AU - Wong, Junlin
AU - Ura, Akari
AU - Kamikouchi, Azusa
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by MEXT KAKENHI Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (Grant 16H04655 to AK and 18H02488 to YI), Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Evolinguistics” (Grant 18H05069 to AK), “Systems Science of Bio-navigation” (Grant 19H04933 to AK), “Constrained and Directional Evolution” (Grant 18H04819 to YI), Challenging Research (Exploratory) (Grant 17K19450 to AK, and 17K19425 and 19K22453 to YI), Narishige Zoological Science Award to YI, and grant from the Naito Foundation and Takeda Science Foundation to AK.
Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright © 2020 Ishikawa, Fujiwara, Wong, Ura and Kamikouchi.
PY - 2020/1/8
Y1 - 2020/1/8
N2 - The antennal ear of the fruit fly, called the Johnston’s organ (JO), detects a wide variety of mechanosensory stimuli, including sound, wind, and gravity. Like many sensory cells in insect, JO neurons are compartmentalized in a sensory unit (i.e., scolopidium). To understand how different subgroups of JO neurons are organized in each scolopidial compartment, we visualized individual JO neurons by labeling various subgroups of JO neurons in different combinations. We found that vibration-sensitive (or deflection-sensitive) neurons rarely grouped together in a single scolopidial compartment. This finding suggests that JO neurons are grouped in stereotypical combinations each with a distinct response property in a scolopidium.
AB - The antennal ear of the fruit fly, called the Johnston’s organ (JO), detects a wide variety of mechanosensory stimuli, including sound, wind, and gravity. Like many sensory cells in insect, JO neurons are compartmentalized in a sensory unit (i.e., scolopidium). To understand how different subgroups of JO neurons are organized in each scolopidial compartment, we visualized individual JO neurons by labeling various subgroups of JO neurons in different combinations. We found that vibration-sensitive (or deflection-sensitive) neurons rarely grouped together in a single scolopidial compartment. This finding suggests that JO neurons are grouped in stereotypical combinations each with a distinct response property in a scolopidium.
KW - compartment
KW - ear
KW - fruit fly
KW - mechanosensory neuron
KW - scolopidium
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U2 - 10.3389/fphys.2019.01552
DO - 10.3389/fphys.2019.01552
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85078489437
VL - 10
JO - Frontiers in Physiology
JF - Frontiers in Physiology
SN - 1664-042X
M1 - 1552
ER -