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ArticleScientific reports2022

Long descending commissural V0v neurons ensure coordinated swimming movements along the body axis in larval zebrafish.

Kohei Kawano, Kagayaki Kato, Takumi Sugioka, Yukiko Kimura, Masashi Tanimoto, Shin-Ichi Higashijima

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Kohei KawanoNational Institutes of Natural Sciences, Exploratory Research Center On Life and Living Systems (ExCELLS), National Institute for Basic Biology, Higashiyama 5-1, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi, 444-8787, Japan.
Kagayaki KatoNational Institutes of Natural Sciences, Exploratory Research Center On Life and Living Systems (ExCELLS), National Institute for Basic Biology, Higashiyama 5-1, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi, 444-8787, Japan.
Takumi SugiokaNational Institutes of Natural Sciences, Exploratory Research Center On Life and Living Systems (ExCELLS), National Institute for Basic Biology, Higashiyama 5-1, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi, 444-8787, Japan.
Yukiko KimuraNational Institutes of Natural Sciences, Exploratory Research Center On Life and Living Systems (ExCELLS), National Institute for Basic Biology, Higashiyama 5-1, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi, 444-8787, Japan.
Masashi TanimotoNational Institutes of Natural Sciences, Exploratory Research Center On Life and Living Systems (ExCELLS), National Institute for Basic Biology, Higashiyama 5-1, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi, 444-8787, Japan.
Shin-Ichi HigashijimaNational Institutes of Natural Sciences, Exploratory Research Center On Life and Living Systems (ExCELLS), National Institute for Basic Biology, Higashiyama 5-1, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi, 444-8787, Japan. shigashi@nibb.ac.jp.
National Institute for Basic Biology · JPThe Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI · JPNational Institutes of Natural Sciences · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Developmental maturation occurs in slow swimming behavior in larval zebrafish; older larvae acquire the ability to perform slow swimming while keeping their head stable in the yaw dimension. A class of long-distance descending commissural excitatory V0v neurons, called MCoD neurons, are known to develop in a later phase of neurogenesis, and participate in slow swimming in older larvae. We hypothesized that these MCoD neurons play a role in coordinating the activities of trunk muscles in the diagonal dimension (e.g., the rostral left and the caudal right) to produce the S-shaped swimming form that contributes to the stability of the head. Here, we show that MCoD neurons do indeed play this role. In larvae in which MCoD neurons were laser-ablated, the swimming body form often adopted a one-sided (C-shaped) bend with reduced appearance of the normal S-shaped bend. With this change in swimming form, the MCoD-ablated larvae exhibited a greater degree of head yaw displacement during slow swimming. In mice, the long-distance descending commissural V0v neurons have been implicated in diagonal interlimb coordination during walking. Together with this, our study suggests that the long-distance descending commissural V0v neurons form an evolutionarily conserved pathway in the spinal locomotor circuits that coordinates the movements of the diagonal body/limb muscles.

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SwimmingZebrafishAnimalsLarvaMiceNeuronsSpinal Cord

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