Our understanding of the nervous tissues that affect the wing flapping of insects mainly focuses on the brain,but wing flapping is a rhythmic movement related to the central pattern generator in the ventral nerve cord...Our understanding of the nervous tissues that affect the wing flapping of insects mainly focuses on the brain,but wing flapping is a rhythmic movement related to the central pattern generator in the ventral nerve cord.To verify whether the neural activity of the abdominal ganglion of the honeybee(Apis mellifera)affects the flapping-wing flight,we profiled the response characteristics of indirect flight muscles to abdominal ganglion excitation.Strikingly,a change in the neural activity of ganglion 3 or ganglion 4 has a stronger effect on the electrophysiological activity of indirect flight muscles than that of ganglion 5.The electrophysiological activity of vertical indirect flight muscles is affected more by the change in neural activity of the abdominal ganglion than that of lateral indirect flight muscles.Moreover,the change in neural activity of the abdominal ganglion mainly causes the change in the muscular activity of indirect wing muscles,but the activity patterns change relatively little and there is little change in the complicated details.This work improves our understanding of the neuroregulatory mechanisms associated with the flapping-wing flight of honeybees.展开更多
A morphofunctional investigation of the different neuronal subpopulations projecting through each of the nerves IV-VI emerging bilaterally from the terminal ab- dominal ganglion （TAG） was correlated with the octopam...A morphofunctional investigation of the different neuronal subpopulations projecting through each of the nerves IV-VI emerging bilaterally from the terminal ab- dominal ganglion （TAG） was correlated with the octopaminergic activity in the ganglion that controls the ovipositor movements associated with caUing behavior in the female gypsy moth Lymantria dispar. Tetramethylrodamine-dextran backfills from nerve stumps resulted in a relatively low number of TAG projections, ranging from 12 to 13 for nerve pair IV, 12 to 14 for nerve pair V, and 8 to 9 for nerve pair VI. Furthermore, as assessed by electrophysiological recordings, a number of fibers within each of these nerves displays spontaneous tonic activity, also when the ganglion is fully disconnected from the ventral nerve cord （VNC）. Octopamine （OA） applications to the TAG strongly enhanced the activ- ity of these nerves, either by increasing the firing rate of a number of spontaneously firing units or by recruiting new ones. This octopaminergic activity affected calling behavior, and specifically the muscle activity leading to cycling extensions of the intersegmental membrane （IM） between segments VIII and IX （ovipositor）. Our results indicate that in the female gypsy moth the octopaminergic neural activity of the TAG is coupled with ex- tensions and retractions oflM for the purpose of releasing pheromone, where motor units innervated by nerve pair IV appear antagonistic with respect to those innervated by nerve pair V.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,Grant Number:51475258。
文摘Our understanding of the nervous tissues that affect the wing flapping of insects mainly focuses on the brain,but wing flapping is a rhythmic movement related to the central pattern generator in the ventral nerve cord.To verify whether the neural activity of the abdominal ganglion of the honeybee(Apis mellifera)affects the flapping-wing flight,we profiled the response characteristics of indirect flight muscles to abdominal ganglion excitation.Strikingly,a change in the neural activity of ganglion 3 or ganglion 4 has a stronger effect on the electrophysiological activity of indirect flight muscles than that of ganglion 5.The electrophysiological activity of vertical indirect flight muscles is affected more by the change in neural activity of the abdominal ganglion than that of lateral indirect flight muscles.Moreover,the change in neural activity of the abdominal ganglion mainly causes the change in the muscular activity of indirect wing muscles,but the activity patterns change relatively little and there is little change in the complicated details.This work improves our understanding of the neuroregulatory mechanisms associated with the flapping-wing flight of honeybees.
文摘A morphofunctional investigation of the different neuronal subpopulations projecting through each of the nerves IV-VI emerging bilaterally from the terminal ab- dominal ganglion （TAG） was correlated with the octopaminergic activity in the ganglion that controls the ovipositor movements associated with caUing behavior in the female gypsy moth Lymantria dispar. Tetramethylrodamine-dextran backfills from nerve stumps resulted in a relatively low number of TAG projections, ranging from 12 to 13 for nerve pair IV, 12 to 14 for nerve pair V, and 8 to 9 for nerve pair VI. Furthermore, as assessed by electrophysiological recordings, a number of fibers within each of these nerves displays spontaneous tonic activity, also when the ganglion is fully disconnected from the ventral nerve cord （VNC）. Octopamine （OA） applications to the TAG strongly enhanced the activ- ity of these nerves, either by increasing the firing rate of a number of spontaneously firing units or by recruiting new ones. This octopaminergic activity affected calling behavior, and specifically the muscle activity leading to cycling extensions of the intersegmental membrane （IM） between segments VIII and IX （ovipositor）. Our results indicate that in the female gypsy moth the octopaminergic neural activity of the TAG is coupled with ex- tensions and retractions oflM for the purpose of releasing pheromone, where motor units innervated by nerve pair IV appear antagonistic with respect to those innervated by nerve pair V.
