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JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY
Volume 524, Issue 6, Pages 1099-1164Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/cne.23955
Keywords
Drosophila melanogaster; insect; brain; auditory system; neural circuits
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- Decoding and Controlling Brain Informations, PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan [25710001, 23115717, 25115007, 25640010]
- Human Frontier Science Program [RGY0070/2011]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [25640010, 25115007, 25710001] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Acoustic communication between insects serves as an excellent model system for analyzing the neuronal mechanisms underlying auditory information processing. The detailed organization of auditory neural circuits in the brain has not yet been described. To understand the central auditory pathways, we used the brain of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model and performed a large-scale analysis of the interneurons associated with the primary auditory center. By screening expression driver strains and performing single-cell labeling of these strains, we identified 44 types of interneurons innervating the primary auditory center. Five types were local interneurons whereas the other 39 types were projection interneurons connecting the primary auditory center with other brain regions. The projection neurons comprised three frequency-selective pathways and two frequency-embracive pathways. Mapping of their connection targets revealed that five neuropils in the brainthe wedge (WED), anterior ventrolateral protocerebrum, posterior ventrolateral protocerebrum (PVLP), saddle (SAD), and gnathal ganglia (GNG)were intensively connected with the primary auditory center. In addition, several other neuropils, including visual and olfactory centers in the brain, were directly connected to the primary auditory center. The distribution patterns of the spines and boutons of the identified neurons suggest that auditory information is sent mainly from the primary auditory center to the PVLP, WED, SAD, GNG, and thoracico-abdominal ganglia. Based on these findings, we established the first comprehensive map of secondary auditory interneurons, which indicates the downstream information flow to parallel ascending pathways, multimodal pathways, and descending pathways. (c) 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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