Coupling between fast and slow oscillator circuits in Cancer borealis is temperature compensated

  1. Daniel Powell
  2. Sara A Haddad
  3. Srinivas Gorur-Shandilya
  4. Eve Marder  Is a corresponding author
  1. Bowdoin College, United States
  2. University of Zürich, Irchel, Switzerland
  3. Brandeis University, United States

Abstract

Coupled oscillatory circuits are ubiquitous in nervous systems. Given that most biological processes are temperature sensitive, it is remarkable that the neuronal circuits of poikilothermic animals can maintain coupling across a wide range of temperatures. Within the stomatogastric ganglion (STG) of the crab, Cancer borealis, the fast pyloric rhythm (~1Hz) and the slow gastric mill rhythm (~0.1Hz) are precisely coordinated at ~11°C such that there is an integer number of pyloric cycles per gastric mill cycle (integer coupling). Upon increasing temperature from 7-23°C, both oscillators showed similar temperature-dependent increases in cycle frequency, and integer coupling between the circuits was conserved. Thus, although both rhythms show temperature dependent changes in rhythm frequency, the processes that couple these circuits maintain their coordination over a wide range of temperature. Such robustness to temperature changes could be part of a toolbox of processes that enables neural circuits to maintain function despite global perturbations.

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All electrophysiological data and analysis code has been uploaded to a publicly available data base: Scripts to reproduce all figures in this paper are available at https://github.com/marderlab/gastric. Raw data and spike annotations can be downloaded from https://zenodo.org/record/3924718.

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  1. Daniel Powell

    Biology Department, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, United States
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  2. Sara A Haddad

    Department of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zürich, Irchel, Zurich, Switzerland
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  3. Srinivas Gorur-Shandilya

    Volen Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, United States
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  4. Eve Marder

    Volen Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, United States
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    marder@brandeis.edu
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Funding

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R35 NS 097343)

  • Eve Marder

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (T32 07292)

  • Srinivas Gorur-Shandilya

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

Reviewing Editor

  1. Claire Wyart, Institut du Cerveau et la Moelle épinière, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, Inserm, CNRS, France

Version history

  1. Received: June 26, 2020
  2. Accepted: February 1, 2021
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: February 4, 2021 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: February 17, 2021 (version 2)

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© 2021, Powell et al.

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  1. Daniel Powell
  2. Sara A Haddad
  3. Srinivas Gorur-Shandilya
  4. Eve Marder
(2021)
Coupling between fast and slow oscillator circuits in Cancer borealis is temperature compensated
eLife 10:e60454.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.60454

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