A sensory map based on velocity threshold of sensory neurones from a chordotonal organ in the tailfan of the crayfish

Zeitschrift für vergleichende Physiologie - Tập 172 - Trang 7-15 - 1993
T. Nagayama1, P. L. Newland1
1Zoological Institute, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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The central projections of sensory neurones innervating a strand chordotonal organ (CO) in the tailfan of the crayfish, Procambarus clarkii (Girard) have been investigated. The CO monitors movement of the exopodite of the tailfan relative to the endopodite. Intracellular recording and staining were used to characterise the response of the sensory neurones to applied stretches of the chordotonal organ and to reveal their morphology. Two gross morphological types of afferents were found: those that terminated in the terminal (6th) abdominal ganglion on the side ipsilateral to the sensory receptor, and those that had branches in the terminal ganglion and an intersegmental axon that ascended rostrally. Afferents responded to position, velocity and direction of imposed CO displacement. Afferents with particular physiological properties had similar morphologies in different crayfish. Irrespective of their directional responses, afferents had central projection areas dependent upon their velocity thresholds. Many afferents responded only during movement of the CO, and those with the lowest velocity thresholds (2°/s) had branches that projected most anteriorly, while those with progressively higher velocity thresholds (up to 200°/s) projected progressively more posteriorly. Afferents that responded to low velocity ramp movements and spiked tonically projected to more posterior areas of the ganglion than those that responded only to movements.

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