scholarly journals Neuroarchitecture and neuroanatomy of the Drosophila central complex: A GAL4‐based dissection of protocerebral bridge neurons and circuits

2014 ◽  
Vol 523 (7) ◽  
pp. 997-1037 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya Wolff ◽  
Nirmala A. Iyer ◽  
Gerald M. Rubin
Keyword(s):  
Central Complex ◽  
Protocerebral Bridge

scholarly journals Protocerebral bridge neurons that regulate sleep in Drosophila melanogaster

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Tomita ◽  
Gosuke Ban ◽  
Yoshiaki S. Kato ◽  
Kazuhiko Kume
Keyword(s):  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Brain Regions ◽  
Central Complex ◽  
Neuronal Circuit ◽  
Sleep Regulation ◽  
Synaptic Contacts ◽  
Protocerebral Bridge ◽  
Dopamine Signaling

AbstractThe central complex is one of the major brain regions that control sleep in Drosophila, but the circuitry details of sleep regulation have yet to be elucidated. Here, we show a novel sleep-regulating neuronal circuit in the protocerebral bridge (PB) of the central complex. Activation of the PB interneurons labeled by the R59E08-Gal4 and the PB columnar neurons in the R52B10-Gal4 promoted sleep and wakefulness, respectively. A targeted GFP reconstitution across synaptic partners (t-GRASP) analysis demonstrated synaptic contacts between these two groups of sleep-regulating PB neurons. Furthermore, we found that activation of a pair of dopaminergic (DA) neurons projecting to the PB (T1 DA neurons) decreased sleep. The wake-promoting T1 DA neurons and the sleep-promoting PB interneurons formed close associations. Dopamine 2-like receptor (Dop2R) knockdown in the sleep-promoting PB interneurons increased sleep. These results indicated that the neuronal circuit in the PB regulated by dopamine signaling mediates sleep-wakefulness.

scholarly journals Protocerebral Bridge Neurons That Regulate Sleep in Drosophila melanogaster

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Tomita ◽  
Gosuke Ban ◽  
Yoshiaki S. Kato ◽  
Kazuhiko Kume
Keyword(s):  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Synaptic Contact ◽  
Brain Regions ◽  
Central Complex ◽  
Neuronal Circuit ◽  
Sleep Regulation ◽  
Protocerebral Bridge ◽  
Dopamine Signaling

The central complex is one of the major brain regions that control sleep in Drosophila. However, the circuitry details of sleep regulation have not been elucidated yet. Here, we show a novel sleep-regulating neuronal circuit in the protocerebral bridge (PB) of the central complex. Activation of the PB interneurons labeled by the R59E08-Gal4 and the PB columnar neurons with R52B10-Gal4 promoted sleep and wakefulness, respectively. A targeted GFP reconstitution across synaptic partners (t-GRASP) analysis demonstrated synaptic contact between these two groups of sleep-regulating PB neurons. Furthermore, we found that activation of a pair of dopaminergic (DA) neurons projecting to the PB (T1 DA neurons) decreased sleep. The wake-promoting T1 DA neurons and the sleep-promoting PB interneurons formed close associations. Dopamine 2-like receptor (Dop2R) knockdown in the sleep-promoting PB interneurons increased sleep. These results indicated that the neuronal circuit in the PB, regulated by dopamine signaling, mediates sleep-wakefulness.

scholarly journals Ring attractor dynamics emerge from a spiking model of the entire protocerebral bridge

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyobi S. Kakaria ◽  
Benjamin de Bivort
Keyword(s):  
Failure Modes ◽  
Azimuthal Angle ◽  
Neuronal Cell ◽  
External Stimulus ◽  
Central Complex ◽  
Connectivity Matrix ◽  
Processing Unit ◽  
Attractor Dynamics ◽  
Protocerebral Bridge ◽  
External Stimuli

AbstractAnimal navigation is accomplished by a combination of landmark-following and dead reckoning based on estimates of self motion. Both of these approaches require the encoding of heading information, which can be represented as an allocentric or egocentric azimuthal angle. Recently, Ca2+ correlates of landmark position and heading direction, in egocentric coordinates, were observed in the ellipsoid body (EB), a ring-shaped processing unit in the fly central complex (Seelig and Jayaraman, 2015). These correlates displayed key dynamics of so-called ring attractors, namely: 1) responsiveness to the position of external stimuli, 2) persistence in the absence of external stimuli, 3) locking onto a single external stimulus when presented with two competitors, 4) stochastically switching between competitors with low probability, and 5) sliding or jumping between positions when an external stimulus moves. We hypothesized that ring attractor-like activity in the EB arises from reciprocal neuronal connections to a related structure, the protocerebral bridge (PB). Using recent light-microscopy resolution catalogues of neuronal cell types in the PB (Wolff et al., 2015; Lin et al., 2013), we determined a connectivity matrix for the PB-EB circuit. When activity in this network was simulated using a leaky-integrate-and-fire model, we observed patterns of activity that closely resemble the reported Ca2+ phenomena. All qualitative ring attractor behaviors were recapitulated in our model, allowing us to predict failure modes of the PB ring attractor and the circuit dynamic phenotypes of thermogenetic or optogenetic manipulations. Ring attractor dynamics emerged under a wide variety of parameter configurations, even including non-spiking leaky-integrator implementations. This suggests that the ring-attractor computation is a robust output of this circuit, apparently arising from its high-level network properties (topological configuration, local excitation and long-range inhibition) rather than biological nitty gritty.

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