A crustacean lobula plate: Morphology, connections, and retinotopic organization
The lobula plate is part of the lobula complex, the third optic neuropil, in the optic lobes of insects. It has been extensively studied in dipterous insects, where its role in processing flow-field motion information used for controlling optomotor responses was discovered early. Recently, a lobula...
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todo:paper_00219967_v526_n1_p109_Bengochea2023-10-03T14:25:20Z A crustacean lobula plate: Morphology, connections, and retinotopic organization Bengochea, M. Berón de Astrada, M. Tomsic, D. Sztarker, J. arthropod flow-field analysis lobula plate mass staining adult animal tissue Article brain controlled study Crustacea lobula plate male medulla oblongata Neohelice granulata nerve cell nerve projection neuroanatomy neuropil nonhuman priority journal supraesophageal ganglion anatomy and histology animal Brachyura metabolism optic lobe physiology retina silver staining ultrastructure visual system fluorescent dye Animals Brachyura Fluorescent Dyes Male Medulla Oblongata Optic Lobe, Nonmammalian Retina Silver Staining Visual Pathways The lobula plate is part of the lobula complex, the third optic neuropil, in the optic lobes of insects. It has been extensively studied in dipterous insects, where its role in processing flow-field motion information used for controlling optomotor responses was discovered early. Recently, a lobula plate was also found in malacostracan crustaceans. Here, we provide the first detailed description of the neuroarchitecture, the input and output connections and the retinotopic organization of the lobula plate in a crustacean, the crab Neohelice granulata using a variety of histological methods that include silver reduced staining and mass staining with dextran-conjugated dyes. The lobula plate of this crab is a small elongated neuropil. It receives separated retinotopic inputs from columnar neurons of the medulla and the lobula. In the anteroposterior plane, the neuropil possesses four layers defined by the arborizations of such columnar inputs. Medulla projecting neurons arborize mainly in two of these layers, one on each side, while input neurons arriving from the lobula branch only in one. The neuropil contains at least two classes of tangential elements, one connecting with the lateral protocerebrum and the other that exits the optic lobes toward the supraesophageal ganglion. The number of layers in the crab's lobula plate, the retinotopic connections received from the medulla and from the lobula, and the presence of large tangential neurons exiting the neuropil, reflect the general structure of the insect lobula plate and, hence, provide support to the notion of an evolutionary conserved function for this neuropil. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. JOUR info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00219967_v526_n1_p109_Bengochea |
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arthropod flow-field analysis lobula plate mass staining adult animal tissue Article brain controlled study Crustacea lobula plate male medulla oblongata Neohelice granulata nerve cell nerve projection neuroanatomy neuropil nonhuman priority journal supraesophageal ganglion anatomy and histology animal Brachyura metabolism optic lobe physiology retina silver staining ultrastructure visual system fluorescent dye Animals Brachyura Fluorescent Dyes Male Medulla Oblongata Optic Lobe, Nonmammalian Retina Silver Staining Visual Pathways |
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arthropod flow-field analysis lobula plate mass staining adult animal tissue Article brain controlled study Crustacea lobula plate male medulla oblongata Neohelice granulata nerve cell nerve projection neuroanatomy neuropil nonhuman priority journal supraesophageal ganglion anatomy and histology animal Brachyura metabolism optic lobe physiology retina silver staining ultrastructure visual system fluorescent dye Animals Brachyura Fluorescent Dyes Male Medulla Oblongata Optic Lobe, Nonmammalian Retina Silver Staining Visual Pathways Bengochea, M. Berón de Astrada, M. Tomsic, D. Sztarker, J. A crustacean lobula plate: Morphology, connections, and retinotopic organization |
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arthropod flow-field analysis lobula plate mass staining adult animal tissue Article brain controlled study Crustacea lobula plate male medulla oblongata Neohelice granulata nerve cell nerve projection neuroanatomy neuropil nonhuman priority journal supraesophageal ganglion anatomy and histology animal Brachyura metabolism optic lobe physiology retina silver staining ultrastructure visual system fluorescent dye Animals Brachyura Fluorescent Dyes Male Medulla Oblongata Optic Lobe, Nonmammalian Retina Silver Staining Visual Pathways |
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The lobula plate is part of the lobula complex, the third optic neuropil, in the optic lobes of insects. It has been extensively studied in dipterous insects, where its role in processing flow-field motion information used for controlling optomotor responses was discovered early. Recently, a lobula plate was also found in malacostracan crustaceans. Here, we provide the first detailed description of the neuroarchitecture, the input and output connections and the retinotopic organization of the lobula plate in a crustacean, the crab Neohelice granulata using a variety of histological methods that include silver reduced staining and mass staining with dextran-conjugated dyes. The lobula plate of this crab is a small elongated neuropil. It receives separated retinotopic inputs from columnar neurons of the medulla and the lobula. In the anteroposterior plane, the neuropil possesses four layers defined by the arborizations of such columnar inputs. Medulla projecting neurons arborize mainly in two of these layers, one on each side, while input neurons arriving from the lobula branch only in one. The neuropil contains at least two classes of tangential elements, one connecting with the lateral protocerebrum and the other that exits the optic lobes toward the supraesophageal ganglion. The number of layers in the crab's lobula plate, the retinotopic connections received from the medulla and from the lobula, and the presence of large tangential neurons exiting the neuropil, reflect the general structure of the insect lobula plate and, hence, provide support to the notion of an evolutionary conserved function for this neuropil. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. |
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A crustacean lobula plate: Morphology, connections, and retinotopic organization |
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A crustacean lobula plate: Morphology, connections, and retinotopic organization |
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A crustacean lobula plate: Morphology, connections, and retinotopic organization |
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A crustacean lobula plate: Morphology, connections, and retinotopic organization |
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