title: Responses of protocerebral neurons in Manduca sexta to sex-pheromone mixtures.
abstract: Male Manduca sexta moths are attracted to a mixture of two components of the female's sex pheromone at the natural concentration ratio. Deviation from this ratio results in reduced attraction. Projection neurons innervating prominent male-specific glomeruli in the male's antennal lobe produce maximal synchronized spiking activity in response to synthetic mixtures of the two components centering around the natural ratio, suggesting that behaviorally effective mixture ratios are encoded by synchronous neuronal activity. We investigated the physiological activity and morphology of downstream protocerebral neurons that responded to antennal stimulation with single pheromone components and their mixtures at various concentration ratios. Among the tested neurons, only a few gave stronger responses to the mixture at the natural ratio whereas most did not distinguish among the mixtures that were tested. We also found that the population response distinguished among the two pheromone components and their mixtures, prior to the peak population response. This observation is consistent with our previous finding that synchronous firing of antennal-lobe projection neurons reaches its maximum before the firing rate reaches its peak. Moreover, the response patterns of protocerebral neurons are diverse, suggesting that the representation of olfactory stimuli at the level of protocerebrum is complex.
authors: Department of Neuroscience, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA, hlei@email.arizona.edu.
authors: Hong
authors: H
authors: Lei
authors: Hong-Yan
authors: HY
authors: Chiu
authors: John G
authors: JG
authors: Hildebrand
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials / Q000187:drug effects*; D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000166:cytology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004338:Drug Combinations; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes / Q000378:metabolism; D007839:Functional Laterality; D008297:Male; D018402:Manduca; D009474:Neurons / Q000187:drug effects*; D009812:Odorants; D009833:Olfactory Pathways / Q000166:cytology*; D012724:Sex Attractants / Q000494:pharmacology*; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric
chemical_list: D004338:Drug Combinations; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D012724:Sex Attractants
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