Feel the heat: The effect of temperature on development, behavior and central pattern generation in 3rd instar Calliphora vicina larvae
| Autor: | H-G Heinzel, Sebastian Hückesfeld, Senta Niederegger, Roland Spieß, Philipp Schlegel |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Central Nervous System
Hot Temperature animal structures Calliphora vicina Physiology Central nervous system Motor Activity Biology Tonic (physiology) medicine Animals Thermotaxis Behavior Animal Diptera fungi Central pattern generator Feeding Behavior Anatomy biology.organism_classification Cell biology Poikilotherm medicine.anatomical_structure Larva Insect Science Reflex Instar |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Insect Physiology. 57:136-146 |
| ISSN: | 0022-1910 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2010.10.002 |
| Popis: | Like in all poikilothermic animals, higher temperatures increase developmental rate and activity in Calliphora vicina larvae. We therefore could expect temperature to have a persistent effect on the output of the feeding and crawling central pattern generators (CPGs). When confronted with a steep temperature gradient, larvae show evasive behavior after touching the substrate with the cephalic sense organs. Beside this reflex behavior the terminal- and dorsal organ might also mediate long term CPG modulation. Both organs were thermally stimulated while their response was recorded from the maxillary- or antennal nerve. The terminal organ showed a tonic response characteristic while the dorsal organ was not sensitive to temperature. Thermal stimulation of the terminal organ did not affect the ongoing patterns of fictive feeding or crawling, recorded from the antennal- or abdominal nerve respectively. A selective increase of the central nervous system (CNS) temperature accelerated the motor patterns of both feeding and crawling. We propose that temperature affects centrally generated behavior via two pathways: short term changes like thermotaxis are mediated by the terminal organ, while long term adaptations like increased feeding rate are caused by temperature sensitive neurons in the CNS which were recently shown to exist in Drosophila larvae. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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