Abstract
An isolated brain preparation was used to characterize neurons innervating the accessory lobe (AL) of the spiny lobster (Panulirus argus). Four distinct classes of neurons responded to electrical stimulation of the olfactory (antennular) nerve. These cells responded to electrical stimulation with a long and variable latency; they also responded to odor stimulation in a nose-brain preparation. Neurons connecting the AL with the olfactory lobe branched in the central AL layer and selectively innervated olfactory lobe glomeruli. These cells had response latencies which were significantly shorter than those of other AL neurons. Intrinsic AL interneurons were heterogeneous as a population, and most arborized in irregular but circumscribed regions of either the lateral or medial layers. The final class of neurons branched ipsilaterally in the deutocerebral neuropil and bilaterally innervated only a few AL glomeruli. The physiology and morphology of these four classes of neurons confirm an olfactory function for the AL and identify the input and output regions of the lobe. Based on these findings, we propose that the AL processes odor information in the context of higher order multimodal input.
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Abbreviations
- AL :
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accessory lobe
- DCN :
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deutocerebral neuropil
- OGT :
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olfactory-globular tract
- OGTN :
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olfactory-globular tract neuropil
- OL :
-
olfactory lobe
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Wachowiak, M., Diebel, C.E. & Ache, B.W. Functional organization of olfactory processing in the accessory lobe of the spiny lobster. J Comp Physiol A 178, 211–226 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00188163
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