Effects of pars intercerebralis removal on circatidal rhythm in the mangrove cricket, Apteronemobius asahinai
Effects of pars intercerebralis removal on circatidal rhythm in the mangrove cricket, Apteronemobius asahinai
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去除脑间部对红树林蟋蟀 (Apteronemobius asahinai) 昼夜节律的影响
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10.1007/s00359-018-1281-1
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2018
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Sakiko Shiga
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作者:
Hiroki Takekata;Hideharu Numata;Sakiko Shiga
The circatidal rhythm is an endogenous rhythm corresponding to the tidal cycles, and its neural mechanism remains unknown. The mangrove cricket,Apteronemobius asahinai, possesses both circatidal and circadian clocks, and simultaneously exhibits circatidal and circadian rhythms in its locomotor activity. In a previous study, we showed that surgical removal of the optic lobes, the principal circadian clock locus in crickets, disrupted their circadian rhythm, but not their circatidal rhythm. In this study, we focused on the pars intercerebralis (PI) because surgical removal of the PI disrupts the circadian rhythm and causes arrhythmic activity in some cricket species. After surgical removal of the PI, the proportion of crickets displaying circatidal rhythm decreased, and more than half of the crickets exhibited arrhythmic activity. Surgical removal of the regions around the PI also caused a similar effect on locomotor activity. Our results indicate that the PI and/or its surrounding regions are important not only for circadian but also for circatidal rhythm. This suggests the presence of a neural or hormonal pathway in the PI and/or its surrounding regions that is common to the circatidal and circadian rhythms.