Prolonged Response to Calling Songs by the L3 Auditory Interneuron in Female Crickets (Acheta domesticus): Possible Roles in Regulating Phonotactic Threshold and Selectiveness for Call Carrier Frequency
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1-2003
Abstract
L3, an auditory interneuron in the prothoracic ganglion of female crickets (Acheta domesticus) exhibited two kinds of responses to models of the male's calling song (CS): a previously described, phasically encoded immediate response; a more tonically encoded prolonged response. The onset of the prolonged response required 3-8 sec of stimulation to reach its maximum spiking rate and 6-20 sec to decay once the calling song ceased. It did not encode the syllables of the chirp. The prolonged response was sharply selective for the 4-5 kHz carrier frequency of the male's calling songs and its threshold tuning matched the threshold tuning of phonotaxis, while the immediate response of the same neuron was broadly tuned to a wide range of carrier frequencies. The thresholds for the prolonged response covaried with the changing phonotactic thresholds of 2- and 5-day-old females. Treatment of females with juvenile hormone reduced the thresholds for both phonotaxis and the prolonged response by equivalent amounts. Of the 3 types of responses to CSs provided by the ascending L1 and L3 auditory interneurons, the threshold for L3's prolonged response, on average, best matched the same females phonotactic threshold. The prolonged response was stimulated by inputs from both ears while L3's immediate response was driven only from its axon-ipsilateral ear. The prolonged response was not selective for either the CS's syllable period or chirp rate. © 2003 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
Journal Title
Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Comparative Experimental Biology
Volume
296
Issue
1
First Page
72
Last Page
85
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.a.10243
First Department
Biology
Recommended Citation
Bronsert, Michael; Bingol, Hilary; Atkins, Gordon; and Stout, John, "Prolonged Response to Calling Songs by the L3 Auditory Interneuron in Female Crickets (Acheta domesticus): Possible Roles in Regulating Phonotactic Threshold and Selectiveness for Call Carrier Frequency" (2003). Faculty Publications. 2107.
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/pubs/2107