期刊
CURRENT BIOLOGY
卷 32, 期 15, 页码 3317-+出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.06.019
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资金
- Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research
- NIH NINDS DP2 New Innovator Award
- HHMI Faculty Scholar Award
- NIH BRAIN Initiative [R01 MH117815-01]
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
This study investigates auditory activity in the Drosophila brain, revealing a continuum of preferences for courtship song modes among auditory neurons without hierarchical structure. However, the response properties of individual cell types within the connectome can be predicted from their inputs.
Animals communicate using sounds in a wide range of contexts, and auditory systems must encode behaviorally relevant acoustic features to drive appropriate reactions. How feature detection emerges along auditory pathways has been difficult to solve due to challenges in mapping the underlying circuits and char-acterizing responses to behaviorally relevant features. Here, we study auditory activity in the Drosophila mel-anogaster brain and investigate feature selectivity for the two main modes of fly courtship song, sinusoids and pulse trains. We identify 24 new cell types of the intermediate layers of the auditory pathway, and using a new connectomic resource, FlyWire, we map all synaptic connections between these cell types, in addition to connections to known early and higher-order auditory neurons-this represents the first circuit-level map of the auditory pathway. We additionally determine the sign (excitatory or inhibitory) of most synapses in this auditory connectome. We find that auditory neurons display a continuum of preferences for courtship song modes and that neurons with different song-mode preferences and response timescales are highly intercon-nected in a network that lacks hierarchical structure. Nonetheless, we find that the response properties of individual cell types within the connectome are predictable from their inputs. Our study thus provides new insights into the organization of auditory coding within the Drosophila brain.
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