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Herberholz J. The giant escape neurons of crayfish: Past discoveries and present opportunities. Front Physiol 2022; 13:1052354. [PMID: 36605900 PMCID: PMC9808059 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2022.1052354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2022] [Accepted: 12/07/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Crayfish are equipped with two prominent neural circuits that control rapid, stereotyped escape behaviors. Central to these circuits are bilateral pairs of giant neurons that transverse the nervous system and generate escape tail-flips in opposite directions away from threatening stimuli.
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Sen S, VijayRaghavan K. Heinrich Reichert (1949-2019). Development 2019. [DOI: 10.1242/dev.183517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Heinrich Reichert, Professor Emeritus at the University of Basel, Switzerland, passed away on the 13th of June 2019 after a prolonged illness. Heinrich described himself as ‘a hedonist when it came to science’ because he said it gave him great pleasure. It was this quality that made working with Heinrich thrilling and deeply fulfilling. Heinrich's long and versatile career spanned the breadth of neuroscience – from development, to evolution and behaviour. In his passing we have lost not just an astute scientist, but also an impassioned educator and an adventurer of science.
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- Sonia Sen
- Tata Institute for Genetics and Society Centre at inStem, Bellary Road, Bangalore 560065, India
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- National Centre for Biological Sciences-TIFR, Bellary Road, Bangalore 560065, India
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Koutsikou S, Merrison‐Hort R, Buhl E, Ferrario A, Li W, Borisyuk R, Soffe SR, Roberts A. A simple decision to move in response to touch reveals basic sensory memory and mechanisms for variable response times. J Physiol 2018; 596:6219-6233. [PMID: 30074236 PMCID: PMC6292811 DOI: 10.1113/jp276356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2018] [Accepted: 07/13/2018] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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KEY POINTS Short-term working memory and decision-making are usually studied in the cerebral cortex; in many models of simple decision making, sensory signals build slowly and noisily to threshold to initiate a motor response after long, variable delays. When touched, hatchling frog tadpoles decide whether to swim; we define the long and variable delays to swimming and use whole-cell recordings to uncover the neurons and processes responsible. Firing in sensory and sensory pathway neurons is short latency, and too brief and invariant to explain these delays, while recordings from hindbrain reticulospinal neurons controlling swimming reveal a prolonged and variable build-up of synaptic excitation which can reach firing threshold and initiate swimming. We propose this excitation provides a sensory memory of the stimulus and may be generated by small reverberatory hindbrain networks. Our results uncover fundamental network mechanisms that allow animals to remember brief sensory stimuli and delay simple motor decisions. ABSTRACT Many motor responses to sensory input, like locomotion or eye movements, are much slower than reflexes. Can simpler animals provide fundamental answers about the cellular mechanisms for motor decisions? Can we observe the 'accumulation' of excitation to threshold proposed to underlie decision making elsewhere? We explore how somatosensory touch stimulation leads to the decision to swim in hatchling Xenopus tadpoles. Delays measured to swimming in behaving and immobilised tadpoles are long and variable. Activity in their extensively studied sensory and sensory pathway neurons is too short-lived to explain these response delays. Instead, whole-cell recordings from the hindbrain reticulospinal neurons that drive swimming show that these receive prolonged, variable synaptic excitation lasting for nearly a second following a brief stimulus. They fire and initiate swimming when this excitation reaches threshold. Analysis of the summation of excitation requires us to propose extended firing in currently undefined presynaptic hindbrain neurons. Simple models show that a small excitatory recurrent-network inserted in the sensory pathway can mimic this process. We suggest that such a network may generate slow, variable summation of excitation to threshold. This excitation provides a simple memory of the sensory stimulus. It allows temporal and spatial integration of sensory inputs and explains the long, variable delays to swimming. The process resembles the 'accumulation' of excitation proposed for cortical circuits in mammals. We conclude that fundamental elements of sensory memory and decision making are present in the brainstem at a surprisingly early stage in development.
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- Stella Koutsikou
- School of Biological SciencesUniversity of Bristol24 Tyndall AvenueBristolBS8 1TQUK
- Medway School of PharmacyUniversity of KentAnson Building, Central AvenueChatham MaritimeME4 4 TBUK
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- School of ComputingElectronics and MathematicsUniversity of PlymouthDrake CircusPlymouthPL4 8AAUK
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- School of Biological SciencesUniversity of Bristol24 Tyndall AvenueBristolBS8 1TQUK
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- School of ComputingElectronics and MathematicsUniversity of PlymouthDrake CircusPlymouthPL4 8AAUK
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- School of Psychology and NeuroscienceUniversity of St Andrews9 South StreetSt AndrewsFifeKY16 9JPUK
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- School of ComputingElectronics and MathematicsUniversity of PlymouthDrake CircusPlymouthPL4 8AAUK
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- School of Biological SciencesUniversity of Bristol24 Tyndall AvenueBristolBS8 1TQUK
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- School of Biological SciencesUniversity of Bristol24 Tyndall AvenueBristolBS8 1TQUK
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Goodman DP, Eldredge A, von Reyn CR. A novel assay to evaluate action selection in escape behavior. J Neurosci Methods 2018; 304:154-161. [PMID: 29715480 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2018.04.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2018] [Revised: 04/26/2018] [Accepted: 04/27/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND How experience and individuality shape action selection remains a major question in neuroscience. Visually-evoked escape behavior within Drosophila melanogaster provides a robust model to study these mechanisms within neural circuits but requires novel assays to circumvent limitations of current behavior assays. METHOD Here we describe and characterize a simple, low to moderate cost, and flexible assay for studying visually-evoked escape responses in tethered flies. This assay consists of a DLP projector, cylindrical rear projection screen, and an automated flight interruption motor all controlled within a MATLAB environment. RESULTS We find this assay effectively recapitulates fly behaviors previously observed in free behavior assays, and provides a novel opportunity to investigate the behavior of individual flies over the course of numerous stimulus presentations. COMPARISON TO EXISTING METHODS Current Drosophila escape assays do not permit multiple stimulus presentations and can be highly complex and expensive to implement. CONCLUSIONS This assay provides an effective system to further identify neural components and mechanisms underlying action selection within parallel sensorimotor pathways.
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- David P Goodman
- School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States; Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Drexel School of Medicine, 2900 W. Queen Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19129, United States.
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In the present study, we performed behavioral analyses of the habituation of backward escape swimming in the marbled crayfish, Procambarus fallax. Application of rapid mechanical stimulation to the rostrum elicited backward swimming following rapid abdominal flexion of crayfish. Response latency was very short-tens of msec-suggesting that backward swimming is mediated by MG neurons. When stimulation was repeated with 10 sec interstimulus intervals the MG-like tailflip did not occur, as the animals showed habituation. Retention of habituation was rather short, with most animals recovering from habituation within 10 min. Previous experience of habituation was remembered and animals habituated faster during a second series of experiments with similar repetitive stimuli. About half the number of stimulus trials was necessary to habituate in the second test compared to the first test. This promotion of habituation was observed in animals with delay periods of rest within 60 min following the first habituation. After 90 min of rest from the first habitation, animals showed a similar time course for the second habituation. With five stimuli at 15 min interval during 90 min of the rest, trained animals showed rapid habituation, indicating reinforcement of the memory of previous experiments. Crayfish also showed dishabituation when mechanical stimulation was applied to the tail following habituation.
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- Azusa Kasuya
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Yamagata University, 990 Yamagata, Japan
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Yamagata University, 990 Yamagata, Japan
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Faulkes Z. Motor neurons in the escape response circuit of white shrimp (Litopenaeus setiferus). PeerJ 2015; 3:e1112. [PMID: 26244117 PMCID: PMC4517965 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2015] [Accepted: 06/29/2015] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Many decapod crustaceans perform escape tailflips with a neural circuit involving giant interneurons, a specialized fast flexor motor giant (MoG) neuron, populations of larger, less specialized fast flexor motor neurons, and fast extensor motor neurons. These escape-related neurons are well described in crayfish (Reptantia), but not in more basal decapod groups. To clarify the evolution of the escape circuit, I examined the fast flexor and fast extensor motor neurons of white shrimp (Litopenaeus setiferus; Dendrobranchiata) using backfilling. In crayfish, the MoGs in each abdominal ganglion are a bilateral pair of separate neurons. In L. setiferus, the MoGs have massive, possibly syncytial, cell bodies and fused axons. The non-MoG fast flexor motor neurons and fast extensor motor neurons are generally found in similar locations to where they are found in crayfish, but the number of motor neurons in both the flexor and extensor pools is smaller than in crayfish. The loss of fusion in the MoGs and increased number of fast motor neurons in reptantian decapods may be correlated with an increased reliance on non-giant mediated tailflipping.
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- Zen Faulkes
- Department of Biology, The University of Texas-Pan American , University Drive, Edinburg, TX , USA
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Domenici P, Blagburn JM, Bacon JP. Animal escapology II: escape trajectory case studies. J Exp Biol 2011; 214:2474-94. [PMID: 21753040 PMCID: PMC3135389 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.053801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/18/2011] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Escape trajectories (ETs; measured as the angle relative to the direction of the threat) have been studied in many taxa using a variety of methodologies and definitions. Here, we provide a review of methodological issues followed by a survey of ET studies across animal taxa, including insects, crustaceans, molluscs, lizards, fish, amphibians, birds and mammals. Variability in ETs is examined in terms of ecological significance and morpho-physiological constraints. The survey shows that certain escape strategies (single ETs and highly variable ETs within a limited angular sector) are found in most taxa reviewed here, suggesting that at least some of these ET distributions are the result of convergent evolution. High variability in ETs is found to be associated with multiple preferred trajectories in species from all taxa, and is suggested to provide unpredictability in the escape response. Random ETs are relatively rare and may be related to constraints in the manoeuvrability of the prey. Similarly, reports of the effect of refuges in the immediate environment are relatively uncommon, and mainly confined to lizards and mammals. This may be related to the fact that work on ETs carried out in laboratory settings has rarely provided shelters. Although there are a relatively large number of examples in the literature that suggest trends in the distribution of ETs, our understanding of animal escape strategies would benefit from a standardization of the analytical approach in the study of ETs, using circular statistics and related tests, in addition to the generation of large data sets.
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- Paolo Domenici
- CNR-IAMC Localita Sa Mardini, 09072 Torregrande (Or), Italy.
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From command fibers to command systems to consensus. Are these labels really useful anymore? Behav Brain Sci 2010. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00052109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The command neuron concept: Good in theory, difficult to justify in practice. Behav Brain Sci 2010. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00052146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Liden WH, Herberholz J. Behavioral and neural responses of juvenile crayfish to moving shadows. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 211:1355-61. [PMID: 18424668 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.010165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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One of the most important decisions any animal has to make is how to respond to sensory cues that suggest an imminent attack by a predator. We measured behavioral and neural responses of juvenile crayfish to moving shadows of different velocities while the animals were searching for food. In all experiments, and independent of shadow velocity, each crayfish produced one of two discrete behavioral outputs: it either tail-flipped backwards by rapid flexion of its abdomen or it immediately stopped its forward locomotion. The probability of each behavioral response was dependent on the velocity of the shadows that were presented. While most animals responded with tail-flips to slow-moving shadows and stops were rarely observed, the number of tail-flips decreased as shadow velocity increased. Tail-flips were almost absent for very fast-moving shadows and stopping behavior became the dominating response. By using a non-invasive technique to record neural activity, we were able to identify the underlying neural circuit that controlled the observed tail-flips. All tail-flips were mediated by activation of the medial giant neurons, which are part of a hardwired neural circuit previously described to produce reflexive responses to tactile stimulation.
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- William H Liden
- Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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Espinoza SY, Breen L, Varghese N, Faulkes Z. Loss of escape-related giant neurons in a spiny lobster, Panulirus argus. THE BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN 2006; 211:223-31. [PMID: 17179382 DOI: 10.2307/4134545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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When attacked, many decapod crustaceans perform tailflips, which are triggered by a neural circuit that includes lateral giant interneurons, medial giant interneurons, and fast flexor motor giant neurons (MoGs). Slipper lobsters (Scyllaridae) lack these giant neurons, and it has been hypothesized that behavioral (e.g., digging) and morphological (e.g., flattening and armor) specializations in this group caused the loss of escape-related giant neurons. To test this hypothesis, we examined a species of spiny lobster, Panulirus argus. Spiny lobsters belong to the sister taxon of the scyllarids, but they have a more crayfish-like morphology than scyllarids and were predicted to have escape-related giant neurons. Ventral nerve cords of P. argus were examined using paraffin-embedded sections and cobalt backfills. We found no escape-related giant neurons and no large axon profiles in the dorsal region of the nerve cord of P. argus. Cobalt backfills showed one fewer fast flexor motor neuron than in species with MoGs and none of the fast flexor motor neurons show any of the anatomical specializations of MoGs. This suggests that all palinuran species lack this giant escape circuit, and that the loss of rapid escape behavior preceded, and may have driven, alternative predator avoidance and anti-predator strategies in palinurans.
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- Sandra Y Espinoza
- Department of Biology, The University of Texas-Pan American, 1201 W. University Drive, Edinburg, Texas 78541-2999, USA
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Herberholz J, Sen MM, Edwards DH. Escape behavior and escape circuit activation in juvenile crayfish during prey-predator interactions. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 207:1855-63. [PMID: 15107440 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.00992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The neural systems that control escape behavior have been studied intensively in several animals, including mollusks, fish and crayfish. Surprisingly little is known, however, about the activation and the utilization of escape circuits during prey-predator interactions. To complement the physiological and anatomical studies with a necessary behavioral equivalent, we investigated encounters between juvenile crayfish and large dragonfly nymphs in freely behaving animals using a combination of high-speed video-recordings and measurements of electric field potentials. During attacks, dragonfly nymphs rapidly extended their labium, equipped with short, sharp palps, to capture small crayfish. Crayfish responded to the tactile stimulus by activating neural escape circuits to generate tail-flips directed away from the predator. Tail-flips were the sole defense mechanism in response to an attack and every single strike was answered by tail-flip escape behavior. Crayfish used all three known types of escape tail-flips during the interactions with the dragonfly nymphs. Tail-flips generated by activity in the giant neurons were predominantly observed to trigger the initial escape responses to an attack, but non-giant mediated tail-flips were often generated to attempt escape after capture. Attacks to the front of the crayfish triggered tail-flips mediated either by the medial giant neuron or by non-giant circuitry, whereas attacks to the rear always elicited tail-flips mediated by the lateral giant neuron. Overall, tail flipping was found to be a successful behavior in preventing predation, and only a small percentage of crayfish were killed and consumed.
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- Jens Herberholz
- Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA.
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Faulkes Z. Loss of escape responses and giant neurons in the tailflipping circuits of slipper lobsters, Ibacus spp. (Decapoda, Palinura, Scyllaridae). ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT 2004; 33:113-123. [PMID: 18089027 DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2003.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2003] [Revised: 12/02/2003] [Accepted: 12/12/2003] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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In many decapod crustaceans, escape tailflips are triggered by lateral giant (LG) and medial giant (MG) interneurons, which connect to motor giant (MoG) abdominal flexor neurons. Several decapods have lost some or all of these giant neurons, however. Because escape-related giant neurons have not been documented in palinurans, I examined tailflipping and abdominal nerve cords for giant neurons in two scyllarid lobster species, Ibacus peronii and Ibacus alticrenatus. Unlike decapods with giant neurons, Ibacus do not tailflip in response to sudden taps. Ibacus can perform non-giant tailflipping: the frequency of tailflips during swimming is adjusted by altering the gap between each individual tailflip. Abdominal nerve cord sections show no LG or MG interneurons. Backfilling nerve 3 of abdominal ganglia revealed no MoG neurons, and the fast flexor motor neuron population is otherwise identical to that described for crayfish. The loss of giant neurons in Ibacus represents an independent deletion of these cells compared to other reptantian decapods known to have lost these giant neurons. This loss is correlated with the normal posture in scyllarids, in which the last two abdominal segments are flexed, and an alternative defensive strategy, concealment by digging into sand.
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- Zen Faulkes
- Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne, Royal Parade, Parkville, Vic. 3010, Australia
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Norekian TP. Coordination of startle and swimming neural systems in the pteropod mollusk Clione limacina: role of the cerebral cholinergic interneuron. J Neurophysiol 1997; 78:308-20. [PMID: 9242282 DOI: 10.1152/jn.1997.78.1.308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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The holoplanktonic pteropod mollusk Clione limacina has a unique startle system that provides a very fast, ballistic movement of the animal during escape or prey capture behaviors. The startle system consists of two groups of large pedal motoneurons that control ventral or dorsal flexions of the wings. Although startle motoneurons innervate the same musculature used during normal swimming, they are independent of the swim central pattern generator and swim motoneurons. This study demonstrates that a cerebral startle (Cr-St) interneuron, which provides prominent excitatory inputs to startle motoneurons, plays a very important role in coordination of the startle and swimming neural systems. The Cr-St interneuron produces, simultaneously with monosynaptic excitatory inputs to dorsal startle motoneurons, monosynaptic inhibitory inputs to all types of swim neurons, including interneurons of the central pattern generator, general excitor motoneurons, small motoneurons, and modulatory pedal serotonergic wing neurons. The inhibitory synaptic transmission between the Cr-St interneuron and swim interneurons and motoneurons, as well as excitatory transmission between the Cr-St interneuron and startle motoneurons, appears to be cholinergic because it is blocked by the cholinergic antagonists atropine and d-tubocurarine, mimicked by exogenous acetylcholine in very low concentrations, and enhanced by the cholinesterase inhibitor eserine (physostigmine). The Cr-St-neuron-mediated inhibitory inputs to the swimming system are strong enough to completely terminate swimming activity while the Cr-St interneuron is active. Mechanosensory inputs are capable of triggering Cr-St neuron firing at rates sufficient to suppress fictive swimming in reduced preparations. Thus the Cr-St interneuron can temporally remove the swimming system from the control over the swim musculature while simultaneously activating the startle system to produce a powerful, short-latency response.
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- T P Norekian
- Department of Zoology, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287-1501, USA
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Nagayama T, Isogai Y, Namba H. Physiology and morphology of spiking local interneurons in the terminal abdominal ganglion of the crayfish. J Comp Neurol 1993; 337:584-99. [PMID: 8288772 DOI: 10.1002/cne.903370405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Not only nonspiking local interneurons but also spiking local interneurons in the terminal abdominal ganglion of the crayfish (Procambarus clarkii Girard) contribute to form the motor output of the uropod. In this study, 14 spiking local interneurons are identified by their gross morphology and physiological properties including the sensory inputs from the uropod and premotor output onto the uropod motor neurons on both sides. Morphologically, they are divided into three groups based on the position of their somata: anterior, medial, and posterior. The main branches of interneurons in each group are usually extended on the side contralateral to the soma, or they have profuse bilateral branches. Physiologically, all of them receive excitatory inputs from the afferents innervating the exopodite on the side ipsilateral their main branches. They are usually silent, and spike only in response to sensory stimulation. The majority of them (11 out of 14 neurons) have output effects on the uropod motor neurons that elicit reciprocally closing pattern. They increased the activity of the closer motor neurons and decreased the activity of the opener motor neurons. Only one interneuron inhibits the closer motor neurons. The remaining two interneurons coactivate both the antagonistic motor neurons. Since the reciprocal closing pattern of the uropod motor neurons is elicited in response to sensory stimulation of the uropod, spiking local interneurons may initiate this local reflex circuit. They detect the initiation of the stimulus and convey signals from the sensory to the motor side.
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- T Nagayama
- Division of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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Nagayama T, Isogai Y, Sato M, Hisada M. Intersegmental ascending interneurons controlling uropod movements of the crayfish Procambarus clarkii. J Comp Neurol 1993; 332:155-74. [PMID: 8331210 DOI: 10.1002/cne.903320203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The premotor effects of intersegmental ascending interneurons upon uropod motor neurones in the crayfish Procambarus clarkii (Girard) are examined with intracellular recording and staining techniques. We show that many ascending interneurones can affect the activity of the antagonistic opener and closer motor neurones in the terminal ganglion. Based upon soma position, ascending interneurones are divided into three groups of rostral, medial, and caudal interneurones. Twenty-four ascending interneurones are characterized physiologically according to their inputs from the tailfan and their output effects on the uropod motor neurones of both sides. Each interneurone is identifiable as a unique individual by means of overall shape, soma position, number of main branches, the commissure in which primary neurites cross the midline, axon position in the 5th-6th abdominal connective and physiological responses. They are classified into six classes; coactivating, coinhibiting, reciprocally closing, reciprocally opening, variably effective, and not effective interneurones, according to their premotor effects on the uropod motor neurones. These ascending interneurones seem to act as multifunctional units conveying sensory information from the tailfan to the anterior abdominal ganglia and, at the same time, influencing the uropod motor pattern in the terminal abdominal ganglion.
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- T Nagayama
- Zoological Institute, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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Neil DM. Sensory guidance of equilibrium reactions in crustacean posture and locomotion. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/0300-9629(93)90142-q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Burdohan JA, Comer CM. An antennal-derived mechanosensory pathway in the cockroach: descending interneurons as a substrate for evasive behavior. Brain Res 1990; 535:347-52. [PMID: 2073615 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(90)91623-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Large amplitude units responding to intense winds or touch of the antennae were recorded extracellularly from the cervical connectives of the cockroach, Periplaneta americana. Intracellular recording and staining revealed a number of interneurons with cell bodies in one of the head ganglia and large caliber axons descending to thoracic levels. These cells respond to touch of an antenna at very short latencies. The properties of these cells suggest that in the cockroach they may be a substrate for non-GI evasive behavior, especially for responses to predators which are detected by tactile cues.
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- J A Burdohan
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago 60680
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Newland PL, Neil DM. The tail flip of the Norway lobster, Nephrops norvegicus. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 1990. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00192022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The tail flip of the Norway lobster, Nephrops norvegicus. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 1990. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00192023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Boyan GS, Ball EE. Neuronal organization and information processing in the wind-sensitive cercal receptor/giant interneurone system of the locus and other orthopteroid insects. Prog Neurobiol 1990; 35:217-43. [PMID: 2236578 DOI: 10.1016/0301-0082(90)90028-f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- G S Boyan
- Molecular Neurobiology Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra City
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Boyan GS, Williams JLD, Ball EE. The wind-sensitive cercal receptor/giant interneurone system of the locust,Locusta migratoria. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 1989. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00611240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Comer CM, Dowd JP, Stubblefield GT. Escape responses following elimination of the giant interneuron pathway in the cockroach, Periplaneta americana. Brain Res 1988; 445:370-5. [PMID: 3370470 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(88)91202-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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The entire set of giant interneurons (GIs) in the nerve cord of the cockroach, Periplaneta americana, was ablated using either electrolytic or surgical techniques. All animals with these lesions were capable of turning and running away from standard wind puffs. However, all animals responded much less frequently to standard wind stimuli following lesion, and the latency of their responses was significantly increased. These results are discussed in terms of a GI role in extremely short latency escape responses, and the idea that non-GI pathways, perhaps associated with head sensory structures, need to be considered in the normal control of escape in the cockroach.
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- C M Comer
- Department of Biological Sciences and Committee on Neuroscience, University of Illinois, Chicago 60680
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What commands egg laying in Aplysia?. Behav Brain Sci 1986. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00052134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Do K & W criteria define only command neurons? Behav Brain Sci 1986. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00052092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Ritzmann RE, Pollack AJ. Identification of thoracic interneurons that mediate giant interneuron-to-motor pathways in the cockroach. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 1986; 159:639-54. [PMID: 3806433 DOI: 10.1007/bf00612037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Paired intracellular recordings were made to identify thoracic interneurons that receive stable short latency excitation from giant interneurons (GIs). Eight metathoracic interneurons were identified in which EPSPs were correlated with GI activity which was evoked either by wind or intracellular electrical stimulation or occurred spontaneously. In all cases EPSPs in the thoracic interneurons followed GI action potentials faithfully at short latencies. EPSPs associated with GI action potentials consistently represented the upper range of amplitudes of a large sample of EPSPs recorded in the thoracic interneurons. Seven of the interneurons were correlated with activity in ventral GIs but were not correlated with activity in dorsal GIs. Four of these interneurons were part of a discrete population of interneurons whose somata are located in the dorsal posterior region of the ganglion. The eighth interneuron (designated the T cell) was positively correlated with activity in dorsal GIs. The four dorsal posterior group interneurons and the T cell were depolarized intracellularly to establish their potential for generating motor activity. In all cases evoked activity was stronger in leg motor neurons (primarily Ds and the common inhibitor) located on the side contralateral to the interneuron's soma. The results indicate that significant polysynaptic pathways exist by which GI activity can evoke motor activity. The implications of this conclusion to investigations on the cockroach escape system are discussed.
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Walters ET, Erickson MT. Directional control and the functional organization of defensive responses in Aplysia. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 1986; 159:339-51. [PMID: 3772829 DOI: 10.1007/bf00603980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Noxious cutaneous stimulation of anterior sites on Aplysia californica causes withdrawal and turning followed by escape locomotion. Stimulation of anterior sites causes significantly larger turning responses than does stimulation of posterior sites, so that escape locomotion is always directed away from a site of 'attack'. Later phases of escape locomotion are often the same, regardless of the site of the triggering stimulus. The defensive secretions, ink and opaline, are directed along the anterior-posterior axis at the source of noxious stimulation. Ink and opaline ejections are directed to the front or back of the animal by characteristic responses of the siphon, mantle, and parapodia. Ink and opaline are ejected by a series of coordinated pumping movements of the mantle, gill, and parapodia that closely resemble triggered 'respiratory pumping' or 'Interneuron II' episodes (Kupfermann and Kandel 1969; Byrne and Koester 1978; Hening 1982). The directed ejection of secretions from the mantle cavity in response to noxious stimulation suggests a number of potential defensive functions for these secretions including aggressive retaliation, startle display, diversion, and alarm signalling (Edmunds 1975). Taken together, our results and others' suggest an integrated scheme for the functional organization of overt defensive behavior in Aplysia, and begin to suggest testable hypotheses about the integration of defensive responses on the cellular level in this animal.
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Routes and stations in the processing of auditory directional information in the CNS of a grasshopper, as revealed by surgical experiments. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 1986. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00603620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Stephens PJ. Morphological and physiological properties of the giant interneuron of the hermit crab (Pagurus pollicaris). JOURNAL OF NEUROBIOLOGY 1985; 16:361-72. [PMID: 4045440 DOI: 10.1002/neu.480160503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The physiological and morphological properties of the giant interneurons in the hermit crab Pagurus pollicaris are described. The cell bodies are located anteriorly in the supraesophageal ganglion, close to the mid-line. Each cell sends a neurite posteriorly and then laterally, so that they cross over in the center of the ganglion. Each axon then branches: one branch runs laterally while the other travels posteriorly and leaves the ganglion in the circumesophageal connective on the side contralateral to the cell body. The giant axons travel in the circumesophageal connectives and through the thoracic and abdominal ganglia without branching. Each giant axon makes synaptic contact with its ipsilateral giant abdominal flexor motor neuron and with a second flexor motor neuron that has its axon in the contralateral third root. In the supraesophageal ganglion there is a bidirectional synapse between the two giant interneurons. Intracellular recordings from the giant axons show that there is a delay of 0.5 to 0.75 ms that cannot be accounted for by spike propagation along the axons, and may be accounted for by a chemical synapse between the giant interneurons.
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Differential activation of Mauthner and non-Mauthner startle circuits in the zebrafish: Implications for functional substitution. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 1984. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00611598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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