An autonomous tail-beating cycle period expressed by a region- specific swimming pattern generator in the Ciona larva
An autonomous tail-beating cycle period expressed by a region- specific swimming pattern generator in the Ciona larva
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海鞘幼虫中区域特定游泳模式生成器表达的自主拍尾周期
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10.1101/2021.04.12.439438
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2021
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Atsuo S. Nishino
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Takashi Hara;Shuya Hasegawa;Yasushi Iwatani;Atsuo S. Nishino
Swimming locomotion in aquatic vertebrates, such as fish and tadpoles, is expressed through orchestrated operations of central pattern generators. These parallel neuronal circuits are ubiquitously distributed and mutually coupled along the spinal cord to express undulation patterns accommodated to efferent and afferent inputs. While such sets of schemes have been shown in vertebrates, the evolutionary origin of those mechanisms along the chordate phylogeny remains unclear. Ascidians, representing a sister group of vertebrates, give rise to tadpole larvae that freely swim in seawater. In this study, we tried to locate the swimming pattern generator in larvae of the ascidianCionaby examining locomotor ability of segmented body fragments. Our experiments demonstrated necessary and sufficient pattern generator activity in a short region (∼10% of the body length as the longest estimation) including the trunk-tail junction but excluding most of the trunk and tail with major sensory apparatuses therein. Moreover, we found that these “mid-piece” body fragments express periodic tail beating bursts with ∼20-s intervals without any exogenous stimuli. Comparisons among temporal patterns of tail beating bursts expressed by the mid-piece fragments and by whole larvae placed under different sensory conditions suggested that the presence of parts other than the critical mid-piece had effects to shorten swimming burst intervals, especially in the dark, and also to expand the variance in burst durations. We propose thatCionalarvae perform swimming as modified representations of autonomous and periodic pattern generator drives, which operate locally in the region of the trunk-tail junction.Summary statementMid-piece fragments of tadpole larvae of the ascidianCiona, lacking most of the anterior trunk and posterior tail, autonomously and periodically express tail beating bursts.
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