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Convergence of monosynaptic and polysynaptic sensory paths onto common motor outputs in a feeding connectome.

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eLife. 2018 Dec 11;7. doi: 10.7554/eLife.40247
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Convergence of monosynaptic and polysynaptic sensory paths onto common motor outputs in a feeding connectome. Fetter LabTruman LabCardona Lab
Miroschnikow A, Schlegel P, Schoofs A, Hueckesfeld S, Li F, Schneider-Mizell CM, Fetter RD, Truman JW, Cardona A, Pankratz MJ
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Abstract

We reconstructed, from a whole CNS EM volume, the synaptic map of input and output neurons that underlie food intake behavior of larvae. Input neurons originate from enteric, pharyngeal and external sensory organs and converge onto seven distinct sensory synaptic compartments within the CNS. Output neurons consist of feeding motor, serotonergic modulatory and neuroendocrine neurons. Monosynaptic connections from a set of sensory synaptic compartments cover the motor, modulatory and neuroendocrine targets in overlapping domains. Polysynaptic routes are superimposed on top of monosynaptic connections, resulting in divergent sensory paths that converge on common outputs. A completely different set of sensory compartments is connected to the mushroom body calyx. The mushroom body output neurons are connected to interneurons that directly target the feeding output neurons. Our results illustrate a circuit architecture in which monosynaptic and multisynaptic connections from sensory inputs traverse onto output neurons via a series of converging paths.

PMID: 30526854 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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Published as a preprint in bioRxiv on July 13, 2018 . https://doi.org/10.1101/368878 

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Feng Li
Jim Truman
Albert Cardona
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