Descending brain neurons in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus (de Geer): Auditory responses and impact on walking

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 199, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 25-34

  Zorović, Maja ^a   Hedwig, Berthold ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain; Cricket; Descending interneurons; Phonotaxis; Trackball; Walking

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GRYLLIDAE; HEARING; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; WALKING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; GRYLLIDAE; NEURONS; WALKING;

EID: 84871854833     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-012-0765-7     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Böhm H, Schildberger K (1992) Brain neurons involved in the control of walking in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus. J Exp Biol 166: 113-130.
2. Brodfuehrer PD, Hoy RR (1989) Integration of ultrasound and flight inputs on descending neurons in the cricket brain. J Exp Biol 145: 157-171.
3. Brodfuehrer PD, Hoy RR (1990) Ultrasound sensitive neurons in the cricket brain. J Comp Physiol A 166: 651-662.
4. Edwards DH, Heitler WJ, Krasne FB (1999) Fifty years of a command neuron: the neurobiology of escape behaviour in the crayfish. Trends Neurosci 22: 153-160.
5. Gebhardt M, Honegger HW (2001) Physiological characterisation of antennal mechanosensory descending interneurons in an insect (Gryllus bimaculatus, Gryllus campestris) brain. J Exp Biol 204: 2265-2275.
6. Grothe B (1994) Interaction of excitation and inhibition in processing of pure tone and amplitude-modulated stimuli in the medial superior olive of the moustached bat. J Neurophysiol 71: 706-721.
7. Hedwig B (2000) Control of cricket stridulation by a command neuron: efficacy depends on the behavioral state. J Neurophysiol 83: 712-722.
8. Hedwig B, Knepper M (1992) NEUROLAB, a comprehensive program for the analysis of neurophysiological and behavioral data. J Neurosci Methods 45: 135-148.
9. Hedwig B, Poulet J (2004) Complex auditory behaviour emerges from simple reactive steering. Nature 430: 781-785.
10. Hedwig B, Poulet J (2005) Mechanisms underlying phonotactic steering in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus revealed with a fast trackball system. J Exp Biol 208: 915-927.
11. Homberg U (1987) Structure and functions of the central complex in insects. In: Gupta AP (ed) Arthropod brain: its evolution, development, structure, and functions. Wiley, New York, pp 347-367.
12. Homberg U (1994) Flight-correlated activity changes in neurons of the lateral accessory lobes in the brain of the locust Schistocerca gregaria. J Comp Physiol A 175: 597-610.
13. Kanzaki R, Shibuya T (1986) Descending protocerebral neurons related to the mating dance of the male silkworm moth. Brain Res 377: 378-382.
14. Kanzaki R, Arbas EA, Hildebrand JG (1991a) Physiology and morphology of protocerebral olfactory neurons in the male moth Manduca sexta. J Comp Physiol A 168: 281-298.
15. Kanzaki R, Arbas EA, Hildebrand JG (1991b) Physiology and morphology of descending neurons in pheromone-processing olfactory pathways in the male moth Manduca sexta. J Comp Physiol A 169: 1-14.
16. Kien J (1983) The initiation and maintenance of walking in the locust: An alternative to the command concept. Proc R Soc Lond B 219: 137-174.
17. Knepper M, Hedwig B (1997) NEUROLAB, a PC-program for the processing of neurobiological data. Comput Methods Prog Biomed 52: 75-77.
18. Kostarakos K, Hedwig B (2012) Calling song recognition in female crickets: temporal tuning of indentified brain neurons matches behavior. J Neurosci 32(28): 9601-9612.
19. Kupfermann I, Weiss KR (1978) The command neuron concept. Behav Brain Sci 1: 3-39.
20. Nolen TG, Hoy RR (1984) Initiation of behaviour by single neurons: the role of behavioural context. Science 4677(226): 992-994.
21. Olberg RM (1986) Identified target-selective visual interneurons descending from the dragonfly brain. J Comp Physiol A 159: 827-840.
22. Pearson KG (1995) Proprioceptive regulation of locomotion. Curr Opin Neurobiol 5: 786-791.
23. Pollack GS, Hoy RR (1981) Phonotaxis in flying crickets: neural correlates. J Insect Physiol 27: 41-45.
24. Popov AV, Shuvalov VF (1977) Phonotactic behaviour of crickets. J Comp Physiol A 119: 111-126.
25. Popov AV, Peresleni AI, Savvateeva-Popova EV, Wolf R, Heisenberg M (2004) The role of the mushroom bodies and of the central complex of Drosophila melanogaster. Brain in the organization of courtship behavior and communicative sound production. J Evol Biochem Phys 40(6): 641-652.
26. Poulet J, Hedwig B (2005) Auditory orientation in crickets: pattern recognition controls reactive steering. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 102: 15665-15669.
27. Reiss RF (1964) A theory of resonant networks. In: Reiss RF (ed) Neural theory and modelling. Stanford University Press, Stanford, pp 105-137.
28. Ridgel AL, Alexander BE, Ritzmann RE (2007) Descending control of turning behaviour in the cockroach, Blaberus discoidalis. J Comp Physiol A 193: 385-402.
29. Ritzmann RE, Tobias ML, Fourtner CR (1980) Flight activity initiated via giant interneurons of the cockroach: evidence for bifunctional trigger interneurons. Science 210: 443-445.
30. Schildberger K (1984) Temporal selectivity of identified auditory neurons in the cricket brain. J Comp Physiol A 155: 171-185.
31. Schildberger K, Milde JJ, Hörner M (1988) The function of the auditory neurons in cricket phonotaxis. II. Modulation of auditory responses during locomotion. J Comp Physiol A 163: 633-640.
32. Schöneich S, Schildberger K, Stevenson PA (2011) Neuronal organization of a fast-mediating cephalothoracic pathway for antennal-tactile information in the cricket (Gryllus bimaculatus DeGeer). J Comp Neurol 519: 1677-1690.
33. Stabel J, Wendler G, Scharstein H (1989) Cricket phonotaxis: localization depends on recognition of the calling song pattern. J Comp Physiol A 165: 165-177.
34. Staudacher E (1998) Distribution and morphology of descending brain neurons in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus. Cell Tissue Res 294: 187-202.
35. Staudacher E (2001) Sensory responses of descending brain neurons in the walking cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus. J Comp Physiol A 187: 1-17.
36. Staudacher E, Schildberger K (1998) Gating of sensory responses of descending brain neurons during walking in crickets. J Exp Biol 201: 559-572.
37. Strauss R, Heisenberg M (1993) A higher control centre of locomotor behaviour in the Drosophila brain. J Neurosci 13(5): 1852-1891.
38. ter Hofstede HM, Killow J, Fullard JH (2009) Gleaning bat echolocation calls do not elicit antipredator behaviour in the Pacific field cricket, Teleogryllus oceanicus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). J Comp Physiol A 195: 769-776.
39. Ulagarai SM, Walker TJ (1973) Phonotaxis of crickets in flight: attraction of male and female crickets to male calling songs. Science 182: 1278-1279.
40. Weber T, Thorson J (1989) Phonotactic behaviour of walking crickets. In: Huber F, Moore TE, Loher W (eds) Cricket behavior and neurobiology. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, pp 310-339.
41. Wendler G (1990) Pattern recognition and localization in cricket phonotaxis. In: Gribakin G, Wiese K, Popov A (eds) Sensory systems and communication in arthropods. Birkhäuser, Basel, pp 387-394.
42. Zorović M, Hedwig B (2011) Processing of species-specific auditory patterns in the cricket brain by ascending, local, and descending neurons during standing and walking. J Neurophysiol 105: 2181-2194.