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ArticleBrain and behavior2012

Cellular basis for singing motor pattern generation in the field cricket (Gryllus bimaculatus DeGeer).

Stefan Schöneich, Berthold Hedwig

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Article in Brain and behavior, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
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Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Modular timer networks: abdominal interneurons controlling the chirp and pulse pattern in a cricket calling song.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2020
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  9. Structure, Activity and Function of a Singing CPG Interneuron Controlling Cricket Species-Specific Acoustic Signaling.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019
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  10. El grillo è buon cantore: for Franz Huber on the occasion of his 90th birthday.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2016
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  16. Pattern recognition in field crickets: concepts and neural evidence.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2015
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  17. Computational principles underlying recognition of acoustic signals in grasshoppers and crickets.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2015
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Stefan SchöneichDepartment of Zoology, University of Cambridge Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, U.K.
Berthold Hedwig
University of Cambridge · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/F008783/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The singing behavior of male crickets allows analyzing a central pattern generator (CPG) that was shaped by sexual selection for reliable production of species-specific communication signals. After localizing the essential ganglia for singing in Gryllus bimaculatus, we now studied the calling song CPG at the cellular level. Fictive singing was initiated by pharmacological brain stimulation. The motor pattern underlying syllables and chirps was recorded as alternating spike bursts of wing-opener and wing-closer motoneurons in a truncated wing nerve; it precisely reflected the natural calling song. During fictive singing, we intracellularly recorded and stained interneurons in thoracic and abdominal ganglia and tested their impact on the song pattern by intracellular current injections. We identified three interneurons of the metathoracic and first unfused abdominal ganglion that rhythmically de- and hyperpolarized in phase with the syllable pattern and spiked strictly before the wing-opener motoneurons. Depolarizing current injection in two of these opener interneurons caused additional rhythmic singing activity, which reliably reset the ongoing chirp rhythm. The closely intermeshing arborizations of the singing interneurons revealed the dorsal midline neuropiles of the metathoracic and three most anterior abdominal neuromeres as the anatomical location of singing pattern generation. In the same neuropiles, we also recorded several closer interneurons that rhythmically hyper- and depolarized in the syllable rhythm and spiked strictly before the wing-closer motoneurons. Some of them received pronounced inhibition at the beginning of each chirp. Hyperpolarizing current injection in the dendrite revealed postinhibitory rebound depolarization as one functional mechanism of central pattern generation in singing crickets.

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Acoustic communicationcentral pattern generatoridentified interneuroninsectspecies-specific motor patternstridulation

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