Synchronous firing by specific pairs of cercal giant interneurons in crickets encodes wind direction

BioSystems

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 218-225

  Yono, Oak ^a   Shimozawa, Tateo ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cercal sensory system; Cricket; Synchronous firing

Indexed keywords

CRICKET; CYTOLOGY; NEUROLOGY; SENSORY SYSTEM; SYNCHRONY; WIND DIRECTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INSECT; INTERNEURON; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; SENSORY SYSTEM; SPIKE; WIND;

GRYLLIDAE;

EID: 48149103703     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2008.04.014     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Atiya A.F. Recognition of multiunit neural signals. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 39 (1992) 723-729
2. Baba Y., Hirota K., and Yamaguchi T. Morphology and response properties of wind-sensitive non-giant interneurons in the terminal abdominal ganglion of crickets. Zool. Sci. 8 (1991) 437-445
3. Bacon J.P., and Murphey R.K. Receptive fields of cricket (Acheta domesticus) interneurons are determined by their dendritic structure. J. Physiol. 352 (1984) 601-618
4. Edwards J.S., and Palka J. The cerci and abdominal giant fibres of the house cricket, Acheta domesticus. I. Anatomy and physiology of normal adults. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 185 (1974) 83-103
5. Glaser E.M. Separation of neuronal activity by waveform analysis. In: Kenedi R.M. (Ed). Advances in Biomedical Engineering vol. 1 (1971), Academic, New York 77-136
6. Gnatzy W., and Hußlein R. Digger wasp against crickets. I. Receptor involved in the antipredator strategies of the prey. Naturwissenschaften 73 (1986) S.212
7. Gnatzy W., and Kämper G. Digger wasp against crickets. II. An airborne signal produced by a running predator. J. Comp. Physiol. A 167 (1990) 551-556
8. Gnatzy W., and Tautz J. Ultrastructure and mechanical properties of an insect mechanoreceptor: stimulus-transmitting structures and sensory apparatus of the cercal filiform hairs of Gryllus. Cell Tissue Res. 213 (1980) 441-463
9. Hatsopoulos N.G., Ojakangas C.L., Paninski L., and Donoghue J.P. Information about movement direction obtained from synchronous activity of motor cortical neurons. PNAS 95 (1998) 15706-15711
10. Hörner M. Wind-evoked escape running of the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus. II. Neurophysiological analysis. J. Exp. Biol. 171 (1992) 215-245
11. Jacobs G., and Theunissen F. Functional organization of a neural map in the cricket cercal sensory system. J. Neuroscience 16 (1996) 769-784
12. Jacobs G.A., Miller J.P., and Murphey R.K. Integrative mechanisms controlling directional sensitivity of an identified sensory interneuron. J. Neurosci. 6 (1986) 2298-2311
13. Kämper G. Abdominal ascending interneurons in crickets: responses to sound at the 30-Hz calling song frequency. J. Comp. Physiol. A 155 (1984) 507-520
14. Kanou M. Directionality of cricket giant interneurons to escape eliciting unidirectional air-current. Zool. Sci. 13 (1996) 35-46
15. Kanou M., Ohshima M., and Inoue J. The air-puff evoked escape behavior of the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus and its compensational recovery after cercal ablations. Zool. Sci. 16 (1999) 71-79
16. Kanou M., and Shimozawa T. A threshold analysis of cricket cercal interneurons by an alternating air-current stimulus. J. Comp. Physiol. 357-365 154 (1984) 357-365
17. Kondoh Y., Arima T., Okuma J., and Hasegawa Y. Filter characteristics of cercal afferents in the cockroach. J. Comp. Physiol. A 169 (1991) 653-662
18. Kumagai T., Shimozawa T., and Baba Y. Mobilities of the cercal wind-receptor hairs of the cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus. J. Comp. Physiol. A 183 (1998) 7-21
19. Levine R.B., and Murphey R.K. Pre- and postsynaptic inhibition of identified giant interneurons in the cricket (Acheta domesticus). J. Comp. Physiol. 135 (1980) 269-282
20. Liebenthal E., Uhlmann O., and Camhi J.M. Critical parameters of the spike trains in a cell assembly: coding of turn direction by the giant interneurons of the cockroach. J. Comp. Physiol. A 174 (1994) 281-296
21. MacQueen J.B. Some Methods for Classification and Analysis of Multivariate Observations, vol. 1 (1967), University of California Press, Berkeley pp. 281-297
22. Miller J.P., Jacobs G.A., and Theunissen F.E. Representation of sensory information in the cricket cercal sensory system. I. Response properties of the primary interneurons. J. Neurophysiol. 66 5 (1991) 1680-1689
23. Oram M., Hatsopoulos N., Richmond B., and Donoghue J. Excess synchrony in motor cortical neurons provides redundant direction information with that from coarse temporal measures. J. Neurophysiol. 86 (2001) 1700-1716
24. Palka J., Levine R., and Schubiger M. The cercus-to-giant interneurons system of crickets. I. Some attributes of sensory cells. J. Comp. Physiol. A Sens. Neural. Behav. Physiol. 119 (1977) 267-283
25. Tauber E., and Camhi J.M. The wind-evoked escape behavior of the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus: integration of behavioral elements. J. Exp. Biol. 198 (1995) 1895-1907
26. Theunissen F.E., Roddey J.C., Stufflebeam S., Clague H., and Miller J.P. Information theoretic analysis of dynamical encoding by four primary sensory interneurons in the cricket cercal system. J. Neurophysiol. 75 (1996) 1345-1364
27. Thorpe S., Delorme A., and Rullen R.V. Spike-based strategies for rapid processing. Neural Networks 14 (2001) 715-725
28. Tobias M., and Murphey R.K. The response of cercal receptors and identified interneurons in the cricket (Acheta domesticus) to air streams. J. Comp. Physiol. 129 (1979) 51-59
29. Walthall W.W., and Murphey R.K. Positional information, compartments and the cercal system of crickets. Dev. Biol. 113 (1986) 182-200
30. Yono O., and Aonuma H. Cholinergic neurotransmission from mechanosensory afferents to giant interneurons in the terminal abdominal ganglion of the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus. Zool. Sci. 25 (2008) 517-525