title: Different kenyon cell populations drive learned approach and avoidance in Drosophila.
abstract: In Drosophila, anatomically discrete dopamine neurons that innervate distinct zones of the mushroom body (MB) assign opposing valence to odors during olfactory learning. Subsets of MB neurons have temporally unique roles in memory processing, but valence-related organization has not been demonstrated. We functionally subdivided the αβ neurons, revealing a value-specific role for the ∼160 αβ core (αβc) neurons. Blocking neurotransmission from αβ surface (αβs) neurons revealed a requirement during retrieval of aversive and appetitive memory, whereas blocking αβc only impaired appetitive memory. The αβc were also required to express memory in a differential aversive paradigm demonstrating a role in relative valuation and approach behavior. Strikingly, both reinforcing dopamine neurons and efferent pathways differentially innervate αβc and αβs in the MB lobes. We propose that conditioned approach requires pooling synaptic outputs from across the αβ ensemble but only from the αβs for conditioned aversion.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, The University of Oxford, Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3SR, UK; Department of Neurobiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 364 Plantation Street, Worcester, MA 01605, USA.
authors.forename: Emmanuel
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Perisse
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yin
authors.forename: Andrew C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Suewei
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Wolf
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Huetteroth
authors.forename: Scott
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Waddell
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001070:Appetitive Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D001362:Avoidance Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D059290:Dopaminergic Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D004330:Drosophila; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D024521:Mushroom Bodies / Q000166:cytology* / Q000502:physiology; D012903:Smell / Q000502:physiology